UH Adds Iconic Houston Restaurant To Its Football Stadium Food, AD Eddie Nuñez Wants To Tackle Basketball Concessions Next

F ew restaurants are as iconically Houston as The Original Ninfa’s, which dates back to a newly widowed Mama Ninfa Laurenzo grilling sizzling skirt steak up in the East End in 1973. Now this uniquely Houston institution is getting its own concession stand in University of Houston’s TDECU Stadium for Cougar football games.

Call it another sign of UH’s push to be the university of the nation’s fourth largest city. The new $130 million Memorial Hermann Football Operations Center is marked by such ties and touches. The massive second floor weight room looks out on a sweeping view of downtown, boasts a red sign that simply reads Houston and features a full wall with a giant map of the city that shows UH’s place in it. Still, there is something else about having the food of the city in your st