Shake Shack To Open Location In Rice Village Next Week

HOUSTON, TX — The city of Houston is about to get another Shake Shack next week. The popular burger and milkshake chain will open at 6205 Kirby in Rice Village either next Wednesday or Thursday, according to sources.

Shake Shack already has one location in The Galleria. If you count the one inside Minute Maid Park that's open for games, that makes three. Then count another that'll be built on Montrose in the future, then Houston will have four.

But for the opening next week, it's been a long time coming. The Shake Shack in Rice Village will fill a coveted spot in the building vacated by La Madeleine, which closed in March of 2017.

"Like many of our locations, the neighborhood and specific corner often comes calling," said Andrew McCaughan, vice president of development at Shake Shack, during a Paper City report. "We love the vibe of the community hang out we can create on this great corner."

This will make the ninth Texas location for Shake Shack next week. In addition to Rice Village, The Galleria and Minute Maid Park, the chain restaurant has two Austin locations, two in Dallas, one in Plano and one in San Antonio.

The menu includes their signature ShackBurger and other burger styles, it also has chicken, gourmet hot dogs, fries, frozen custard, hand-spun shakes, regular beverages and those of the adult variety (beer and wine).

Before Shake Shack opened its first permanent location in 2004 in New York, it was a hot dog cart in Madison Square Park back in 2001. It later opened a permanent kiosk and expanded its menu. It now has stores up and down the east Coast, out in California and Nevada and several states in between and all the way down to Florida.

Image: In this Friday, March 4, 2016, file photo, people walk past a Shake Shack restaurant, in New York. Shake Shack Inc. reports financial results Thursday, May 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)