{"id":30330,"date":"2026-09-22T00:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T00:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/30330\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T00:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T00:53:08","slug":"bite-pizza-co-celebrates-1st-anniversary-of-serving-sugar-land-sugar-land-missouri-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/30330\/","title":{"rendered":"Bite Pizza Co. celebrates 1st anniversary of serving Sugar Land | Sugar Land &#8211; Missouri City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bite Pizza Co. is celebrating its first anniversary of serving authentic Indian cuisine in Sugar Land with an expanded menu and catering services. <\/p>\n<p>The eatery, which was founded in July 2025 by Chef Naresh Lakha and his family, is backed by his decades of experience in the Houston restaurant industry, including owning Gourmet India and working as a chef at Houston\u2019s Bombay Brasserie restaurants. <\/p>\n<p>From the oven<br \/>The eatery\u2019s menu was initially known for its South Asian-inspired pizzas, including chicken tikka and paneer tikka options but has expanded to include handcrafted fusion pizzas, traditional pizzas, wings, naan and other authentic Indian dishes. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe support we received during our first year showed us that customers want both familiar comfort food and the Indian flavors our family grew up with,\u201d Lakha said. \u201cWe are grateful to the Sugar Land community, and we want Bite Pizza Co. to be a place where families can enjoy pizza and authentic Indian food together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some new dishes include karahi chicken, chicken tikka masala, saag paneer and mushroom muttar. <\/p>\n<p>All of the restaurant\u2019s pizza dough is made in-house, and the eatery uses 100% Zabiha Halal meats. <\/p>\n<p>Also of note<br \/>Beyond its variety of food, eatery officials said they hope the business can be a hangout spot for people who need somewhere to work or spend time with friends or family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bite Pizza Co. is celebrating its first anniversary of serving authentic Indian cuisine in Sugar Land with an expanded menu and catering services. The eatery, which was founded in July 2025 by Chef Naresh Lakha and his family, is backed by his decades of experience in the Houston restaurant industry, including owning Gourmet India and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[369,373,488,489,24968],"class_list":["post-30330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-indian-restaurants","tag-dining","tag-houston","tag-indian-restaurant","tag-indian-restaurants","tag-sugar-land-missouri-city"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/vive.im\/@dnc\/117311959447260198","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}