Ninfa's on Navigation (original location)

Ninfa's on Navigation, opened in 1973 by Ninfa Laurenzo at its Navigation Boulevard location, became an influential Tex-Mex restaurant in Houston's East End. The original restaurant is widely credited with popularizing fajitas in Houston and helped launch a regional and national reputation for fajita-style cooking; that specific attribution is sometimes debated among food historians. The site remains a neighborhood culinary landmark associated with Houston's Mexican-American food culture.