Texmex1

Any updates on this new location?

On 8/16/2020 at 9:58 PM, FilioScotia said:

**** There was a steakhouse/bar-b-que place on Stella Link right before Bellaire Blvd ****

 

You may be thinking of the Cellar Door. 

Yep, that was the Cellar Door.....

Any updates? It looks like work has stopped on the site....

The Randalls on Weslayan/Bissonnet is just sad now, produce is always old, the people working there are not happy looking, nowhere near where it was in the heyday....

On 6/27/2009 at 3:38 PM, debmartin said:

a few places from my early days:

thornhill cafeteria in palm center, where my dad's record store "harmony hut" was located

albrittan's cafeteria

sky terrace (sakowitz where my mom worked, we would go as a treat)

warwick hotel (few rare dinners with my dad's business associates)

youngbloods (fried chicken family place, now aunt beas on the northside)

gee's (airline @ crosstimbers, chinese my mom & sibs loved where i could get a cheeseburger & jukeboxes on the table:)

princess hamburgers downtown, eat in the car (as a teen drink orange tommy's with my mom)

shakey's pizza by northline mall

piccadily cafeteria in northline mall

windmill dinner theater

howard johnson's I45 & crosstimbers (waitressed as a teen, they made saltwater taffy) its now something of a crackhouse

monterrey house - they put candy at the bottom of the bowl of chips!

antione's on taft

santa anita's (downtown, an elderly gentleman served us who also served my parents in the late 50's)

gallagher's steakhouse (served great bread & wisconsin cheese spread)

mr. bake-a-tater (around the westheimer curve, late 70's)

one's a meal (next to river oaks theater) now by katz's deli

sam's bbq on airline, late 70's, great food & they sponsored my softball team

bennigins (late 80's, my kids loved it, took my son to 59 location every st. patricks on his birthday

old san francisco steakhouse on westheimer

boston sea party also on westheimer

never been here but my parents met at a place called the "buccaneer drive-in, 1955, currently 2016 main residential & sammys

my mom had 4 kids in tow & liked cafeteria dining. we also drove to the country to visit my grandparents often down I45 north outside centerville, stopping at stuckeys in conroe, madisonville & centerville. the corral cafe in madisonville was so good my grandparents drove there many sundays from marquez where they lived, a considerable distance!

Mr Bake a Tater was on Shepherd across the street from St Ann school, my Mom used to take me there, it was great!

The San Antonio Rose

Harlow's

Slick Willie's on Westheimer

The Texas Opry House on Richmond

Goofy's Game Room on Buffalo Spwy.

Rockefeller's, Fitzgerald's and Leo's Mexican restaurant in the Heights

Kay's Lounge on Richmond

Studebaker's

Westheimer Art Festival

Anton's

The Bavarian Beer Gardens

Kay's is still there (although its always been on Bissonet near Kirby), and the beer is just as cold!

They are still around! (In Horseshoe Bay)

http://www.facebook.com/JamailsHSB

I wish I had some photos of Upper Kirby. That area was a bit dodgier at the time. I remember the north side of Alabama between Greenbriar and Revere had a collection of pretty scary apartments.

and by dodgy , you mean affordable right?

Kirby was just fine during those times safetywise, and had alot more character too!

Zeke's on Kirby

Hanging out on my motorcycle at Wendys on the Westheimer curve on the weekends

Cruising/street racing on Westheimer

Leo's TexMex

Marini's

River Oaks midnight movies

Hamburgers by Gourmet

Mothers Po-Boys on Richmond

Transco Fountain (before everyone found out about it)

Metropol on Waugh (every fri-sat night was a scene out of Miami VIce)

Was there opening day, great place, and the menu is a work in progress.....

Mother's PoBoys on Richmond just West of Kirby , awesome sandwiches and a nice Hungarian couple owned it....

Spanky's is the best!

I received a small box of Freedman Plantlets in the mail last week. Already planted and they grow fast. The cost is FREE!!!!!! FREE POSTAGE. Really nice lady.!!!!!!!!

Just got mine yesterday!

I've eaten at the one in Lubbuttocks, and I feel no great desire to go to another. I've only eaten there once, but I learned all I need to know about the place when I ordered chile rellenos and got a bland stuffed bell pepper instead of a spicy stuffed poblano pepper. It's not my cup o' tea.

But I'm sure it'll fit right in in Midtown.

Looks like just another franchise, too many other locally owned TexMex places in Houston to support "the man"......

next will the be playground.