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Welcome to The Blind Goat
The Blind Goat is a modern Vietnamese eatery from Christine Ha, winner of MasterChef season 3. It was recognized as a James Beard Award Best New Restaurant in America semi-finalist in 2020.
At The Blind Goat, we want to foster a vibrant atmosphere, a casual eatery where you can grab a bite or beverage with friends, family, and colleagues. It is a place to kick back, enjoy the everyday, and celebrate the joys in life, both big and small.
Weekly Specials
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Monday
$29 Whole Fish Fry + $2 oysters and $6 sparkling by the glass + All day happy hour
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Tuesday
Pho Birria Taco Tuesday + 50% OFF all margaritas
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Wednesday
$25 steak night and 25% off all whiskey all day
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Thursday
Fried Chicken night + 25% OFF all wine by the glass
Executive Chef
Christine Ha
Christine Ha is the blind cook who won "MasterChef" season 3 with Gordon Ramsay. Her cookbook, Recipes from My Home Kitchen, was a New York Times best-seller. She has spoken about disability advocacy at the United Nations, served as a culinary envoy overseas for the American Embassy, and was a co-host on the Canadian cooking show "Four Senses" and a judge on "MasterChef" Vietnam.
Christine holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Creative Writing Program at University of Houston, where she served as Fiction Editor for Gulf Coast literary journal, and a Bachelor of Business Administration from The University of Texas at Austin.
In 2020, the James Beard Foundation named The Blind Goat a semi-finalist for Best New Restaurant in America when it was just a 400-square-foot station inside a food hall. That same year, Christine opened Xin Chào with co-chef Tony Nguyen, and they were named a finalist for the James Beard Award for Best Chef, Texas region, in 2022, and a semi-finalist for Outstanding Chef in America in 2023.
Christine attributes her love of Vietnamese food and cooking to her late parents, both Vietnamese refugees, especially her mom who never left any recipes behind nor taught her how to cook. Instead, Christine is entirely self-taught—as a sophomore in college, she decided she missed the dishes from her childhood, so she read cookbooks, experimented in the kitchen, and the love of creating dishes to delight friends and family grew from there. Cooking Vietnamese food is Christine's way of paying homage to her parents in the kitchen.