Soto’s Kitchen

For example the restaurant’s signature dish, chicken Cubano, features grilled chicken served with fried plantains from Cuba and chimichurri sauce from Argentina.

Amador said the fusion of flavors the restaurant offers is what separates Soto’s Kitchen from other Mexican and Tex-Mex restaurants in Sugar Land and Missouri City.

“We get to use all of the different flavors, that is not typically cheese, and put them with steaks and seafood,” he said. “Tex-Mex is more sauce with a lot of cheeses. Traditional Mexican food does not use as much cheese as people may think.”

With the growing popularity of the restaurant’s concept, the Soto brothers opened a second Soto’s Kitchen location in December at 2899 Dulles Ave., Missouri City. Amador said he and his brother Carlos have expanded the restaurant’s menu due to the larger kitchen at the Dulles Avenue location. He also said he is also able to focus on the presentation of the food to help draw in additional customers.

“We try to maintain the neatness and cleanliness to allow the dishes to look beautiful,” he said. “The aesthetic plating is one of the things that we really try to emphasize.”

Although there are no immediate plans to open a third location, Amador said he is always on the lookout for different ingredients and dishes to introduce to the menu. Amador said he visits the local restaurants in his hometown to taste new dishes.

“Mexico has a lot of different food that is not really known to the United States,” he said. “The whole world is somehow in Mexico.”