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Percy “Frenchy” Creuzot Jr. opened his restaurant in Houston’s Third Ward on July 3, 1969. A New Orleans native who had come to Houston for sales work, he brought Creole cooking and a community spirit that the neighborhood made its own. The original location on Scott Street became an institution — a place where the line stretched out the door and nobody minded the wait.
Beyoncé grew up in the Third Ward. Frenchy’s was part of the rhythm of her childhood, the kind of place a family returns to because the food is that good and the feeling is that right. She carried it with her when she left Houston for the world. In her 2013 track “I Been On,” she dropped the name without explanation — because if you know, you know.
Dangerous. No Place Like Home.
In the 2023 documentary Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé, she returned to Frenchy’s on camera and called the food “dangerous.” Then she added: “There’s no place like home.” It was one of the most genuine moments in the film — a superstar reduced to the same helpless appreciation every Third Ward kid has felt standing at that counter.
Frenchy’s remains Black-owned and operated under CEO Ernest Ray Hunter II. The restaurant has outlasted trends, chains, and the constant churn of the Houston food scene because it never tried to be anything other than what it is. Fried chicken. Cajun rice. Dirty rice. Red beans. The flavors that New Orleans sent to Texas in 1969 and Texas kept forever.
The Third Ward shaped Beyoncé’s sense of home, and Frenchy’s Chicken is part of what that home tastes like. Every visit is a lyric she already wrote.
