Backed by Travis Kelce, Patrick Mahomes, Chicken N Pickle hits Houston area

Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce are making their presence known in Houston, just not physically. Chicken N Pickle, a pickleball-restaurant hybrid, is opening at Webster’s Flyway development Feb. 20.

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Backed by Travis Kelce, Patrick Mahomes, Chicken N Pickle hits Houston area
The sports-themed restaurant and entertainment venue is opening at the Flyway development in Webster.
By John-Henry Perera
Feb 16, 2024
Chicken N Pickle, a new pickleball venue backed by Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes, is headed to the Flyway in Webster, Texas.
Chicken N Pickle, a new pickleball venue backed by Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes, is headed to the Flyway in Webster, Texas.

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Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce are making their presence known in Houston, just not physically. Chicken N Pickle, a pickleball-restaurant hybrid, is opening at Webster’s Flyway development Feb. 20.

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The Kansas City-based chain of entertainment restaurants is making a big expansion push around the U.S., fueled by a recent round of investor funding that included Mahomes and Kelce, the famous quarterback and tight end (and Taylor Swift’s boyfriend), respectively, of the recent Super Bowl LVIII champion Kansas City Chiefs. The Webster location was announced back in October 2022, among other future sites.

As for what it is, it’s in the name. Chicken N Pickle is an outdoor/indoor space that features a restaurant, a sports bar and, of course, pickleball. For the unaware, the tennis-like sport was invented in the 1960s and eventually became one of the more popular pastimes in the northwestern U.S. It then exploded in the 2020s and has since become one of the fastest-growing sports in the country.