Horno Monterrey Bakery serves a variety of Mexican cakes and pastries, but the tres leches is a local favorite for birthdays, holidays, and other celebrations. Check out flavors like mocha and pineapple-loaded piña colada.

The long-running Houston bakery, owned by the Taqueria Arandas restaurant chain, has multiple locations throughout the city. Its tres leches comes in chocolate, Neapolitan, strawberry, or vanilla, and can be filled with mixed fruit or mocha. The bakery also offers a rolled tres leches, which comes in two sizes; in chocolate, vanilla, or strawberry; and can be filled with mixed fruit, pecans, or strawberry.

As the name suggests, this dessert shop is dedicated to the art that is tres leches with a boatload of impressive flavors. Venture beyond the original, and try the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup, red velvet, pina colada, caramel, chocolate, or the blue velvet — a blend of white chocolate, mocha, and vanilla flavors. Treacherous Leches used to be located within the Henderson & Kane General Store, but is soon moving to a new location at 7820 Fulton St. in north Houston.

Luv’em Leches, located within downtown’s Underground Hall, specializes in a huge variety of tres leches. Besides traditional flavors, like vanilla topped with mango or chocolate, the restaurant also has flavors like caramel, strawberry, and coffee.

Urbe, the Mexican street food restaurant from James Beard Award-winning chef Hugo Ortega, is known for its pastry counter, and it has a worthy tres leches. Try the chocolate tres leches with chocolate shavings on top, or the traditional white cake with fresh fruit and strawberry sauce.

This small, family-owned Montrose restaurant and bakery serves a seriously creamy tres leches served in a pool of milk. Try it alongside the bakery’s hot, spiced café de olla and a host of other pastries.

Though meat is obviously a focus at this Latin American steakhouse, it has developed a cult following solely for its creamy tres leches, which is topped with Italian meringue. Ask for the “flamado” version, during which a server sets the milk-soaked cake ablaze table side. Visit on Sundays, when Churrascos offers a brunch buffet that offers tres leches for dessert.

Molina’s Cantina is a staple of the Houston Tex-Mex scene, and its homemade, thickly frosted tres leches can’t be missed. If the location at 7901 Westheimer Dr. isn’t in your neck of the woods, check out one of its other locations on Bellaire Boulevard and in Fulshear.

Known for its cheap and easy-to-devour street tacos, 100% Taquitos also gets bragging rights for its desserts. Its tres leches cake is moist, smothered in whipped cream, and topped with a generous pile of strawberries. With plenty of leche pooled at the bottom, the dessert is good to the last drop.

This Peruvian-inspired bakery is stocked with gorgeous, fruit-topped tres leches with delicately-piped whipped cream and heaps of fruit. If you prefer your desserts boozy, try the tres leches flavored with pisco, a Peruvian spirit made from grapes. Or, if three milks aren’t enough for you, try the five leches cake for even more creaminess.

Bragged about by servers and bartenders as a favorite post-shift treat, this meringue-topped tres leches comes out delightfully cold, with a hypnotizing three-milk creamy concoction that you’ll want to slurp up with your spoon.