For Buyers · Houston
Texas Redfish for Houston, delivered from Palacios.
Houston is our closest big-metro market and our most common delivery route. Cold-chain direct from the farm, whole or filleted, lot-tagged, on a kitchen's clock.
Palacios sits on the western Matagorda Bay, roughly 130 miles and a two-hour drive from inside the Loop. Of the big-four Texas metros, Houston is the closest to our farm — which means it is both our easiest delivery window and the most forgiving cold-chain hop. For Houston chefs, retailers, and program managers, the practical read is: fish harvested Wednesday morning can be in your back-of-house by Wednesday afternoon.
What Houston gets
A Gulf-coast farm with a Gulf-coast drive time.
01 · Delivery window
Harvest to Houston in hours, not days.
We harvest twice a week and can land a same-day delivery for standing-order accounts inside the Loop and the inner suburbs. Route planning confirms on the first call.
02 · A Houston chef quote
A Montrose testimonial on the record.
Lung Ly, chef-owner of 93 Til in Montrose, told OutSmart Magazine in 2022: "It's so fresh, I think they grab it right out of the pond and bring it to us." Houston's restaurant media knows our product.
03 · Scale fit
Case to pallet, restaurant to distributor.
Houston is our most diverse receiving footprint — independents inside the Loop, chef-driven concepts in the Heights and Montrose, a distributor market on the Energy Corridor side, counter-scale retail across the metro.
04 · Origin story fit
A Texas Gulf-coast story for a Texas Gulf-coast city.
Houston buyers are fluent in Gulf-coast provenance — bay names, shrimp fleets, oyster reefs. "From Palacios, Matagorda Bay" reads as a place, not a marketing pin. The menu line writes itself.
In Houston press
"We also have a redfish dish from Turtle Creek Aquaculture. … Turtle Creek runs a sustainable fishery in Palacios, Texas, near Matagorda Bay. It's so fresh, I think they grab it right out of the pond and bring it to us."
— Lung Ly, owner of 93 Til, Houston
Houston FAQ
What Houston buyers ask on the first call.
How far is Turtle Creek from Houston?
Approximately 130 miles southwest, about a two-hour drive. Houston is the closest of the big-four Texas metros (Houston, Austin, Dallas, San Antonio) to our farm in Palacios.
Do you deliver direct to Houston?
Yes. Direct cold-chain delivery to Houston is our most common route. We harvest twice a week; a first delivery is typically days, not weeks.
What parts of Greater Houston do you serve?
Inside the Loop, Galleria, Heights, Montrose, EaDo, Midtown, Rice Village, Upper Kirby; Sugar Land, The Woodlands, Katy, Pearland, and Kingwood on the perimeter. Tell us the receiving zip on the first call and we will quote the route.
Do Houston chefs already use your fish?
Yes. 93 Til in Montrose is the earliest named restaurant partner on record. The chef-owner's quote in OutSmart Magazine is here.
Pick your buyer type
Five specs, by what you run in Houston.
Restaurants
For Houston kitchens.
Case-sized orders, menu-ready Texas-grown label, chef-direct.
For restaurantsDistributors
For Houston warehouse accounts.
Pallet-scale standing orders, cold-chain freight, lot ID per carton.
For distributorsRetailers
For Houston fish counters.
Case-ready whole fish and fillets, signage-ready origin story.
For retailersBrokers
For Houston-region programs.
Multi-destination drops, per-account tagging, no end-runs.
For brokersHotels
For Houston F&B programs.
Banquet-scale consistency, multi-property corporate P.O.s.
For hotel groupsFirst inquiry
What to tell us on the first call.
No web form in v1. The fastest path is a phone call. If you'd rather email, here's what to include.
- Business name and Houston location. Zip, neighborhood, receiving dock notes.
- Buyer type. Restaurant, distributor, retailer, broker, or hotel group.
- Expected weekly poundage. Even a rough range.
- Whole or filleted. Size or portion preference if you have one.
- First-delivery timing. Menu launch, standing-order start, or one-time event.
Call (713) 364-3701
Email Sales@turtlecreek.fish
Hours Daily, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Central
Visit 7474 TX-35 S, Palacios, TX 77465 — by appointment
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