Mama's Assumption!

The owners of Cabo, Mike and Anthony Roberson, have opened a new Cajun place in west Houston — on the edge of Chinatown, actually — called Mama Assumption’s (6609 Sam Houston Pkwy. S.). They named the restaurant after Assumption Parish in Louisiana, which is right smack in the middle of the path that Hurricane Katrina took when it made landfall in 2005. Asked why they put a Cajun restaurant in Chinatown, Mike says, “The Asian community loves seafood, just like the Cajuns. We also have fried rice on the menu. Besides, we’re close to major engineering companies that employ a lot of people from Louisiana, and even though we’ve only been open three weeks and have done no advertising, the word’s out. At lunch, we’re slammed every day, and at least 30 percent of our customers are natives of Louisiana.”Mike says the menu “is a mixture of authentic Cajun food like red beans and rice, blackened redfish, étouffée and crawfish, with soul food like oxtails and fried chicken and waffles.” Happy hour, which offers up $.29 oysters, $.39 wings and $.49 shrimp, is packing the place. Along with the bar, the fresh seafood display takes up most of the expansive back wall of the restaurant, making it easy to see what you’re getting.

-Houston Press