Salsas prepared in house. Slow-cooked dishes given the time they need. Everything reaching the table the way it should.
Julia’s is a neighborhood Mexican restaurant on Highway 6 in Houston, open for lunch, dinner and weekend brunch. The kitchen works from traditional recipes alongside house specialties, and most of what arrives at your table was started here that day.
Our chef brings twenty years of experience cooking in fine restaurants, and our staff is here to look after you from the moment you sit down.
The Name On The Door
Somebody Real Cooks Here
A painted portrait hangs in the dining room, and it is still the picture Julia’s uses as its own. The rest of this page is about the food. This part is about the people behind it.
It is the kind of restaurant where the name over the door belongs to a person rather than a chain, and where the recipes came from a kitchen before they came from a menu.
In The Kitchen
Cooked The Long Way
Pork shoulder is marinated in achiote and roasted in banana leaves for the cochinita pibil. Brisket is slow roasted birria style with dry peppers and fresh spices. Mole poblano simmers down for the pollo en mole, and the fajitas come off the charbroiler still sizzling.
Corn or flour tortillas come warm with almost everything, and the quesadillas are folded into homemade flour tortillas made in our own kitchen.
See The Full MenuFresh From Scratch
What That Actually Means Here
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Five sauces, five recipes
Mole poblano, creamy tomatillo suiza, roasted tomato-habanero, guajillo and creamy chipotle. Each one is made for a specific dish rather than spread across the menu.
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Time where it counts
Cochinita pibil wrapped in banana leaves. Brisket marinated with dry peppers. Pozole built on hominy, pork and a blend of dry chiles. None of these are weeknight recipes.
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Squeezed and pressed here
Margaritas made with fresh squeezed lime juice. Horchata made in house for the Tex‑chata. Homemade tortillas, and guacamole mashed from fresh avocado, tomato and onion.
The Dining Room
A Room For Long Dinners
Julia’s is a family restaurant first. Weekday lunches run alongside birthdays, family dinners and celebrations. Happy hour is Monday to Friday, 11am to 6pm, and brunch is served Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 2pm — menudo, chilaquiles, barbacoa and breakfast tacos.
Feeding a crowd at home? Family packs serve four. Planning something larger? The restaurant is available for private events: birthdays, family gatherings, business lunches, dinners and receptions.
Plan Your Visit
Buen provecho.
Find us at 5402 N Highway 6, Houston, TX 77084. Please call to make a reservation.