Located in Houston’s largest Jewish neighborhood, Meyerland’s dedicated H-E-B features the largest selection of kosher foods in the grocery store chain. All of the store’s certified kosher products are approved by the store’s full-time mashgiach, and range from items produced in-store to dry goods from kosher vendors all over the world, including Israel.

The bakery makes pareve cakes, breads, bagels, and tortillas from scratch daily, and the store’s seafood department includes a kosher sushi selection. Custom cuts from the meat market and deli offer ready-to-eat kosher sandwich meats in addition to many options for the home cook.

Wine lovers will appreciate the store’s vast wine section, which includes more than 2,000 varieties at a range of different price points—and yes, there are Israeli kosher wines.

Located centrally to Third Ward, the Museum District, the Med Center, and Riverside Terrace, the MacGregor Market H-E-B caters to a wide range of neighborhoods and shoppers. Prior to its opening in 2019, the predominantly African American Third Ward was often described as a food desert due to a lack of access to good-quality fresh food. A large and diverse produce section, along with fish and meat counters now provide shoppers with plenty of fresh options.

Additionally, a large selection of H-E-B Meal Simple heat-and-eat options appeals to nearby University of Houston and Texas Southern University students and Med Center staff navigating hectic, round-the-clock work schedules.

The diversity of the location’s shoppers is clear from the store’s dry goods selection and international aisle, where Jamaican products like Tastee cheese—a pasteurized processed cheese spread—is located in the same aisle as plantain fufu flour and Indian spices like bagged black mustard seeds.

Just west of Beltway 8, one of the city’s most diverse areas showcases the cultures of West Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. The H-E-B located here offers products influenced by all of them, but it’s particularly useful as a source for the area’s Mexican and Central American customers.

Fresh hierba buena, chipilín, and verdolaga (also known as purslane) are just some examples of the edible leaves available in the produce case that holds refrigerated greens and vegetables. Nearby, bitter melons, Indian and Thai eggplants, and banana leaves are a few steps away from African yams and boniato sweet potatoes, along with a pallet holding 25-pound bags of Thai jasmine rice.

The bakery’s in-house items include bolillos, conchas, and fresh tortillas, along with bags of duros de harina, a Mexican snack food made of puffed wheat.

Head to the international aisle for variously sized bottles of palm oil in addition to dried herbs from Nigeria, like bitter leaf, ukazi, and senna leaves.

Located in Southeast Houston along I-45, the influence of the area’s Mexican population is clear at this Gulfgate institution, where a tentlike cover resembling a circus big top welcomes shoppers to the large, mercado-like store.

A precursor to the brand’s Mi Tienda stores in Houston, the location offers a massive variety of Mexican ingredients and products, from dried chiles to Diet Guanabana nectar and dizzying displays of Mexican candy.

The large bakery offers an extensive scratch-made selection of sweets alongside mainstays like tortillas and bolillos, including gingerbread marranito cookies, pumpkin empanadas, chamuco pastries, and brightly colored conchas.

Notably, this is the only Houston-area location with a Flaming Bird restaurant, which cooks chicken pollo asado style, grilled over an open flame. Customers have the option of ordering a single meal by the plate, a family combo, or simply purchasing a whole bird alongside sides like ranchero beans, Spanish rice, mesquite corn, coleslaw, and potato salad.

In a city known for its sprawl, this centrally located store between Rice Military, Montrose, and the Heights services residents living and shopping in its urban heart. As one of Houston’s newest H-E-Bs—and given its location below a midrise apartment complex—it includes features that appeal to young adults with disposable income who shop to enjoy the finer things in life.

The large section of to-go meals appeals to the shopper with more money than time, and a wine- and beer-tasting counter is available for those in the mood to try before they buy.

Its international aisle offers a wide variety of worldly items, but the store really shines with its deli area, offering European cheeses and a serve-yourself olive bar. Additionally, the bakery has a large selection of bread styles for the sandwich-minded consumer, including German options like a Bauernbrot rye loaf and pumpernickel.

The most exciting feature of this Mission Bend H-E-B is undoubtedly its in-store, family-owned Filipino restaurant: To Go Cafe. With an all-day breakfast menu in addition to a variety of traditional dishes like fried banana rolls and fried milkfish, its combo plates are reason alone to venture to the store.

But if groceries are in order after a hearty plate of lechón and halo halo for dessert, it’s worth a look down the international aisle, where West African, Caribbean, and Indian products line the shelves. Dried crayfish brings umami to Nigerian soups and stews, and bags of fufu flour range from oat to rice. Mango pulp and boiled brown chickpeas accompany large bags of Indian spices like green cardamom and bottles of pure mustard oil.

Walking into Almeda’s H-E-B store, shoppers are greeted with a produce section brimming with various tropical fruits. Given southeast Houston’s large population of Mexican, Central American, and Salvadoran residents, it makes sense that red and yellow pitaya—also known as dragon fruit—plus a smorgasbord of banana varieties like red and borros are on display.

Nearby, the bakery offers an assortment of baked goods like conchas, pan de polvo, and buñuelo chips. Fans of Central American products will be delighted to find pacaya—date palm in brine—and Salvadoran pickled cabbage lining shelves alongside Kolashanpan sugar cane soda and Guatemalan guava in light syrup.

Check out the meat section for specialties like Mexican longaniza cured pork and pickled pork skins.