David Herrera, owner of Galiana’s Bakery & Café in Cypress, has a long history working at Houston restaurants.
David, who was raised on a farm in El Salvador, first moved to the U.S. in 1979 and got a job at Houston’s El Torito restaurant. In the 1980s, he was a waiter captain for Tony Vallone, a renowned Houston chef and restaurateur. At home he would try to prepare some of the restaurant dishes for his wife Alicia and their sons Ubaldo, Marvin and Dario.
“Alicia and I never dreamed that we as farmers would one day be restaurant owners,” David said.
Fast-forward to April 2017, and David and his family broke ground on their seventh restaurant—Galiana’s, located off Hwy. 290 near Barker Cypress Road. The restaurant was named in honor of two of David’s granddaughters Gabriella and Aliana, and all of the Herrera family help keep it running.









