Jacinto City Cafe

This a great place to eat breakfast and lunch on the east side of Houston. Staff and owner are great people and give great customer service. Stop by and have a great meal!

I ordered the patty melt and onion rings. Everything was great!

Good food for an unbeatable price!

I came here based on the Unilocal reviews of their burgers. The burgers were good but not outstanding. My companion had the three egg breakfast and enjoyed it. He was impressed by the low price.
A lot of people must consider it a good place because it was crowed at lunch. Parking is a problem at rush time.
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I’ve Eaten Out Every Meal for 25 years

The breakfast here is awesome. Burgers are real good. I have not tried there steam table lunch yet but might do so one day.

Friendly diner with a classic small-​town vibe. Burgers are decent and prices are great. Looking forward to trying rest of menu.

If you’re in JC options are already limited. Good food. A bit of quantity over quality. Typical country style breakfast plates. Would definitely recommend & return.

well hello there unlikely gem! I came here with a co-​worker who claimed this place had really good burgers, she was right! The burgers are delicious, lots of good food for a very very low price. They also have different hot plates to choose from, I would def go back to try some of those out. This is a really good spot to go to during lunch if you work in the area.

Food is delicious. Love the quiet atmosphere. Food is not so pricey either. Im bummed they dont open on Sundays. The Belgian waffles are HUUUGE. Burgers are great.

Wonderful Wonderful… love the Steam Table Menu. I ordered almost everyday for my lunch… nice people serve there too

Good traditional breakfast! Eggs n bacon toast coffee… Delicious and cheap! Woop woop

Ordered the chicken fried steak. It was a pretty thick and good portion for $ 8 but the meat was too tought for me to chew. The thing was almost ½″ thick! Aren’t they supposed to pound this thing to a pancake to soften it out a little? Gravy was… different…a good different. I had the brown gravy and I know everybody uses white but each to their own. Toast, eggs over easy and the has brown were right on the money and very good ($ 4.99).
Waitress was pretty attentive. Took a few pictures of the place so people could get a feel on how the ceilings and floors look (cleanliness and updates?) but one of the waitress got in my way, ooops! lol.
The local authorities seem to like to eat here which is a good thing. Iced tea and cokes served in nice giant cups, not those little 12’ers where you have to beg the servers for refills every 3 minutes.
Parking can be a problem during peak times because it is a small parking lot sharing a strip.

This place offers a great breakfast!!! Texas sized… The owners are Greek, so for lunch they offer some Greek treats. The food is good, cheap, and the place is so traditional. I go there all the time. It is usually busy, and they have a smoking section, so if you don’t smoke, just sit in the non smoking side and everything is cool. This local gem is know by all Jacinto City people including me.

This is most certainly a Jacinto City establishment. Family owned and one of the best places in town to get a real good quality (not chain!) breakfast or lunch. And be really full for what you paid.
Breakfast/​lunch takeout is available and the food quality is always consistent. They’ve been serving up meals for locals for decades and they have it right. Try ordering an omelet and seeing if you can eat the whole thing? They are very generous with portions and the hash browns are perfection. And if you are just ravenously hungry, get the chicken fried steak for brunch, and you will still have enough left for dinner as well.
When sitting down in person, the steam table is a great way to go. They used to have limited seating (well, until about, geez, 12 years ago when they expanded)… I didn’t even realize I have been eating here this long until now…
Good Eats in Jacinto City for decades, original European family owned and operated to this day.

Strong breakfast/​lunch only establishment. Very good breakfasts. Locals come to eat and linger over coffee and the newspaper. Have yet to have anything bad here. Lunch can be either off the menu, or you can order off the steam table which usually has 3 choices of entrée, two veggies and a bare bones salad. I am especially partial to the Chicken Fried Steak (which is tastier than it looks) and the Spaghetti (which has a strong Greek seasoning influence).
Jacinto City is an inner loop speed trap so don’t get too much in a hurry to get to your pancakes.