About
It All Started Because Two People Fell in Love
The Café Piquet story begins in Havana and Camaguey on the island of Cuba. This is where Guido and Nelly Piquet and the famous recipes of their restaurant—Café Piquet—were born.
In the early 1970’s, Guido’s family opened Piquet Market in Houston, which served hard-to-find Cuban foods and goods to the growing Cuban community in Southwest Houston; meanwhile, Nelly and her family owned a Cuban restaurant in Southern California serving cantinas. (The term ‘cantinas’ refers to the tin containers that were traditionally used by restaurants in Cuba for take out.)
Then in 1989, Nelly moved to Houston and met Guido. It wasn’t until 1990 that Nelly’s restaurant experience and Guido’s family cooking were combined and the young couple started serving cantinas, out of Piquet Market, to the local Cubans in the area.
