Tomball - Magnolia Edition | November 2023

Dining

BY JOVANNA AGUILAR

Owners Marcial Vilchez Gerente and Maricruz Perozo opened Fritos Y Mas in February.

COURTESY FRITOS Y MAS

Among the restaurant’s Venezuelan menu items are tequeños—fried breaded cheese sticks—which are served as a snack.

COURTESY FRITOS Y MAS

Fritos Y Mas brings taste of Venezuela to Tomball area Owners Marcial Vilchez Gerente and Maricruz Perozo opened Fritos Y Mas in February with hopes of delighting the Tomball area with its Venezuelan cuisine. “We noticed the area lacked a Venezuelan restaurant and thought the community would appreciate one,” Gerente said. How it happened After moving to the U.S. in 2017, the couple—

The restaurant boasts a vibrant atmosphere featuring the colors of Venezuela.

The details Fritos y Mas oers a vibrant sit-down restaurant as well as catering and online delivery services. The menu includes a variety of dishes, including Ven- ezuelan hamburgers, hotdogs and breads, as well as tumbarranchos—a breaded arepa stued with a patron’s choice of mortadella, chicken or ham; soft Venezuelan cheese, fresh cabbage, salsa and tomato. Additional menu items include empanadas, tequeños and mandocas. The restaurant’s new seasonal menu oers additional Venezuelan staples, such as pastelitos— deep-fried dough pockets stued with either cheese, chicken, ground beef or pizza lling. Fritos Y Mas also oers Venezuelan sodas.

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who previously owned a restaurant in Venezuela— decided to bring a taste of Venezuela to Tomball. Initially a home-based business, Fritos Y Mas began out of the couple’s home kitchen in 2019 before evolving into a brick-and-mortar eatery earlier this year.

11709 Boudreaux Road, Ste. 160, Tomball www.fritosymas.com

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