Herb Shells

Herb Shells is a Southern food enthusiast based in Houston whose restaurant reviews span the Gulf Coast corridor from Texas to Florida, with deep love for Cajun, Creole, and Southern cooking. With reviews spanning Houston, Sugar Land, Pearland, Stafford, Tomball, New Orleans, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Lake Charles, and Orlando, Herb is one of the most geographically comprehensive tastemakers covering Southern cuisine on Social Foodie.

His picks reflect the cooking traditions of the Deep South in all their regional specificity: whole-hog BBQ, Cajun seafood boils, Jamaican jerk, soul food plates, and the kind of Indian and Pakistani cooking that has built extraordinary communities in Houston's suburbs. Herb covers hibachi, buffets, and strip-mall discoveries with the same energy he brings to established restaurants — great cooking is great cooking, regardless of the setting.

The Gulf Coast food corridor is one of America's great underreported dining regions, and Herb Shells is one of its most consistent documentarians. His Social Foodie profile maps the essential spots across Texas, Louisiana, and Florida's Gulf Coast for anyone serious about eating well in the South.