Tmc La Cocina

The bowl that they're making is absolutely fantastic. Great variety. All of their hot sauces are excellent and the portion size is generous too. I'm a visiting student at the Baylor college and I've been getting a bowl now every day for about four weeks. Can recommend. I'm getting another one later today. And the staff is very nice too. Keep it up guys!

Thought it was going to be an authentic Mexican restaurant by the way it was described once it was googled but not even close.

The food tasted ok but made my belly hurt, probably the spicy chorizo.

Great food but not enough food for the price. They recently made the box too smaller.

Not Easy to Find, But Worth the Effort In February, we were in Houston for my wife to attend several meetings at the Texas Medical Center. We were staying at the Marriott, and decided to walk to dinner at Third Coast. Luckily, we started out early, as our walking software, kept taking us into parking garages, dead ends and then an Emergency entrance at Children’s Hospital. Finally, we found 6550 Bertner Ave, and the John P McGovern Texas Medical Center Commons, but the search was not over yet. We saw Third Coast signs outside the building, and at each entrance. Once inside, however, no signs, that we could find. We ended up in a closed food court off of the lobby, and called. We were given instructions to turn around, enter a small hallway, and there we would find an elevator. That we did, and exited the elevator to the Third Coast signs, and entrance. Whew, we were on time, and rather hungry from our walk. We were promptly seated, in a dining area, to the right of the bar. There were only a few groups of people in this very large restaurant, and it looked like they were having either very late business lunches, or very early business dinners. Third Coast is an interesting venue: it is comprised of about three large dining areas, which are only visually separated from each other, in that there are not walls, but the décor is different enough, that they do appear to be somewhat separate. Off of those large areas, there do appear to be private, or semi private dining areas, as well. Then, there is a bar, with more seating booths and a dozen TV sets hanging from the ceiling, and finally an outdoor dining area, but this patio was not open in February, and especially with the poor weather. It appeared to be very nice, and would be ideal for the Spring, or Autumn though not this rainy Winter night. The interior is very attractive, but was a little less “formal,” than I had expected for a fine dining restaurant. Well, Third Coast seems to be a bit of a chameleon, in that it serves different purposes: it is a breakfast and lunch restaurant for the entire Texas Medical Complex, and especially the John P McGovern Texas Medical Center building. It is an after work bar, and also a place for meetings, and then becomes a fine dining restaurant in the evening. I saw mention of it being available for large groups, and can see how much of the open dining area could be reconfigured for those. looking around, I did see several 8 tops, plus one of the groups dining/meeting, looked to be a party of about 12. There is also a grand piano in one area, near a lovely, contemporary fireplace. The décor and interior architecture are beautiful, as is the lighting. An attractive and interesting place. I had the wine list in hand, along with the menus, and began doing my reading. We were at a large, comfortable 4 top, and as we were walking, my first order was the wines besides, in looking around, I saw several wine storage displays in the walls. Yes, time for wine! I ordered the Ceritas “Peter Martin Ray Santa Cruz Mountains Chardonnay ‘14 to start. However, our server returned and apologized they were out. OK, off to Plan B the Failla Keefer Ranch Russian River Chardonnay ‘14. He had brought our some rather small bowl glasses, when he was looking for the Ceritas, and I asked for larger bowls, for the big Chard. He had those on the table very quickly. The stemware was very nice. We did an eclectic blend of shared dishes for dinner: Jumbo Lump Crab w/ avocado, Fiji apple, tomato and ginger orange vinaigrette Quite good, with succulent crab meat, and some interesting flavors and textures. Rice Flour crusted Calamari w/ chili lime aioli Excellent, and the calamari were both flavorful and tender. Crab Cake w/ jumbo lump crab, corn, spinach, shiitake mushrooms and lemon butter OK, we were getting our USDA Daily Minimum Allowance of crab, but we now live in Arizona, having moved from the Gulf Coast, so we can be excused. Besides, we were sharing, remember. Redfish, which was pan seared, and rubbed with guajillo w/ coconut cilantro ric