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Kahn's is good, good stuff.  The prices might look high for a sandwich, until you realize you can get two or three meals out of one sandwich!

My dad's company delievers him pickles and food to Khans Deli. I have never eaten there but we go there quite often for his business. Same for Kenny & Ziggy's.

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In its prime, the Red Lion was considered a very fine dining establishment. It was demolished after being badly damaged by fire in the 90s.

I just was on S. Shepherd last night and happened to pass a Restaurant just north of Westheimer called, Red Lion. It was a smaller house-looking building than their old location but still a good size. The sign had that same lion on it as the sign in the picture above. So I'm thinking it's the same restaurant, reopened in a new location. I didn't get more than a quick glance at it as I was driving and had to pay attention to the road!

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I just was on S. Shepherd last night and happened to pass a Restaurant just north of Westheimer called, Red Lion. It was a smaller house-looking building than their old location but still a good size. The sign had that same lion on it as the sign in the picture above. So I'm thinking it's the same restaurant, reopened in a new location. I didn't get more than a quick glance at it as I was driving and had to pay attention to the road!

Great pub. Food is pretty good too.

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ooh Grandy's had THE BEST chicken!!! and their rolls.

Key word: Had. Have you been back since? I found one up in Chambana, IL and I practically ran screaming with joy headlong through the front door. The rolls are just as excellent as I had remembered them but ... Oh, man. The rest of their food is on par with Taco Bell Grade.

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Key word: Had. Have you been back since? I found one up in Chambana, IL and I practically ran screaming with joy headlong through the front door. The rolls are just as excellent as I had remembered them but ... Oh, man. The rest of their food is on par with Taco Bell Grade.

I haven't been back since. :(

I saw them scattered I don't remember where.

I remember seeing one in N.Richland Hills TX and Champaign IL.

BTW, it seems like you have to go through every country named place in Texas to get a Grandy's LOL!!!

Rhome

7575 Arcadia Trail

Fort Worth, TX 76137

(817) 638-2679

Atlanta

2003 W. Main St.

Atlanta, TX 75551

(903) 796-5577

Italy

101 L.R. Campbell Rd

Italy, TX 76651

(972) 483-7601

(who says Texas doesn't have a little Italy?) ;)

I HAD to look it up...here is what I found

LONG:

Grandy's in Texas:

Dallas/Fort Worth Area Back to Top

Allen

1112 N. Greenville

Allen, TX 75002

Alvarado

1203 South Parkway Drive

Alvarado, TX 76009

(817) 790-5200

Arlington

4180 S. Cooper

Arlington, TX 76015

(817) 468-2889

2450 Green Oaks S.E.

Arlington, TX 76018

(817) 466-4776

Balch Springs

12011 Elam Road

Balch Springs, Tx 75180

(972) 557-3622

Carrolton

1735 I-35 South

Carrollton, TX 75006

(972) 245-4302

3330 E. Trinity Mills

Carrollton, TX 75006

(972) 250-1515

Dallas

3230 W. Camp Wisdom

Dallas, TX 75237

(972) 296-1944

10443 Central Expressway

Dallas, TX 75231

(214) 369-6878 3738 Marvin D. Love

Dallas, TX 75224

(214) 372-5250

8228 East R.L. Thornton

Dallas, TX 75228

(214) 324-1963 1607 Regal Row

Dallas, TX 75247

(214) 689-9858

901 Main St

Suite C106-A

Dallas, Tx 75202

214-655-2677

Denton

2217 I-35E South

Denton, TX 76201

(940) 565-8016

808 W. University

Denton, TX 76201

(940) 387-7252

Desota/Lancaster

3255 W. Pleasant Run

Lancaster, TX 75146

(972) 224-5033

Euless

1201 W. Airport Freeway

Euless, TX 76040

(817) 283-3062

Fort Worth

1050 N. Beach

Ft. Worth, TX 76110

(817) 834-3901

7201 Highway 80

Ft. Worth, TX 76116

(817) 244-5568 4301 South Frwy

Ft. Worth, TX 76115

(817) 922-9705

Fr. Worth Zoo

1989 Colonial Parkway

Ft. Worth, TX 76110

(817) 871-7047

Garland

145 N. Garland Ave.

Garland, TX 75046

(972) 272-9922

2155 Northwest Hwy

Garland, TX 75041

(972) 278-0845

Grapevine

301 State Hwy 114

Grapevine, TX 76051

(817) 488-5008

Greenville

6112 Wesley Street

Greenville, TX 75401

(903) 450-1011

Irving

2815 Beltline Rd.

Irving, TX 75062

(972) 258-8584 501 South Loop 12

Irving, Tx 75060

972-721-1643

Lancaster/Desota

3255 W. Pleasant Run

Lancaster, TX 75146

(972) 224-5033

Lewisville

401 Stemmons

Lewisville, TX 75077

(972) 436-3932

Mesquite

2009 N. Towneast Blvd.

Mesquite, TX 75150

(972) 681-8052

N. Richland Hills

5205 Rufe Snow

N. Richland Hills, TX 76118

(817) 581-0667

Plano

620 E. 15th Street

Plano, TX 75074

(972) 423-4744

2240 Coit Road

Plano, TX 75075

(972) 867-3108 8601 Ohio Drive

Plano, TX 75024

(214) 387-4933

Rhome

7575 Arcadia Trail

Fort Worth, TX 76137

(817) 638-2679

Richardson

106 W. Campbell

Richardson, TX 75080

(972) 235-1373

Rockwall

726 Interstate 30

Rockwall, TX 75087

(972) 772-3565

Terrell

1081 FM 148

Terrell, TX 75160

(972) 524-5858

Other Texas Areas Back to Top

Abilene

401 Westwood Drive

Abilene, TX 79603

(915) 676-4397

4134 Buffalo Gap Road

Abilene, TX 79605

(915) 692-6192

Anna

1700 S. Hwy. 75

Anna, TX 75409

(972) 924-3246

Atlanta

2003 W. Main St.

Atlanta, TX 75551

(903) 796-5577

Austin

5403 N. Interregional Hwy.

Austin, TX 78723

(512) 454-9468

El Paso

10599 Vista Del Sol Drive

El Paso, TX 79924

(915) 598-8382

Eastman/Longview

Exxon

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I remember "Texas Tumbleweeds". I ate there alot with my parents back in the early 80's. There was one off 1960 close to the old North Oaks Mall. As I can remember, great steaks, rolls, and homemade ranch dressing.

Used to eat at Strack Farms close to Spring. That is still there and pretty much the same. Still has the Miss Pac Man video game I used to always play.

Also remember JoJo's of 1960 - awesome desserts!!

What abour Biaperrettis(?) great itallian place. Not sure if theyare still around or not.

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Steak and Ale and their Beer battered bread!!! :( WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

There's apparently 4 Steak & Ales still in Houston:

12250 Gulf Freeway

Houston

77034

713-944-9986

11109 Katy Freeway

Houston

77079

713-467-5050

17425 N Freeway

Houston

77090

281-440-1983

2425 Mangum Road

Houston

77092

713-681-4675

I went to the one on Mangum (at 290) recently --- I didn't know they had beer battered bread, tho!

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I remember eating at the one that used to be at the SW FW at the BW. Good stuff. Now, the place is an Indian vegetarian restaurant. Go figure. ;)

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Three Mexican restaurants I miss are Old Mexico on W Gray, Santa Anita on Pierce and Louisiana and Del Rio on Shepherd and W 26th. These were places from my childhood, but I can still taste certain dishes from each restaurant.

Old Mexico patio:

OldMexico.jpg

Santa Anita (later Adrians):

SantaAnita.jpg

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Anyone remember Allbritton's Cafeteria on Waugh (just south of the American General building)? It was a white stucco Streamline Moderne building, much like the Carnation milk plant next door.

They had great traditional Texas foods - chicken fried steak with cream gravy, greens, jalapeno cornbread, cheese grits. The women who worked the steam table were appearently installed about the same time the place opened. As you made your way through the line they'd say:

"Serve you."

"Serve you."

with absolutely no expression or inflection. They each must have uttered that phrase hundreds of thousands of times.

Did this place later become the club "Metropolis"?

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I just was on S. Shepherd last night and happened to pass a Restaurant just north of Westheimer called, Red Lion. It was a smaller house-looking building than their old location but still a good size. The sign had that same lion on it as the sign in the picture above. So I'm thinking it's the same restaurant, reopened in a new location. I didn't get more than a quick glance at it as I was driving and had to pay attention to the road!

Red Lion is a great Pub. The food is allright, but they have Stella Artois on tap (my favorite beer of all time) and you can not get this beer many places in Houston (even Spec's does not carry it).

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Carvel returns!

Aug. 11, 2005, 12:35AM

Serving up cold comfort

Joyful transplants flock to Carvel ice cream store for soft-serve specialty; more will open in Houston

By DAVID KAPLAN

Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle

Before Linda Eppolito opened her ice cream shop in west Houston, a stranger knocked on the door and asked, breathlessly, "Is this really Carvel? The Carvel from New York?"

Since opening less than a year ago, Eppolito has seen many East Coast transplants walk in. Currently, they comprise three out of 10 of her customers. Initially, the percentage of East Coast natives was much greater.

Maybe it's the taste of the soft-serve ice cream, or maybe it's the memories. Something makes ex-East Coast residents go ga-ga when they discover a Carvel in their neighborhood.

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I never heard of Rettig's but I remember a Carvel on Richmond and Hillcroft by the Walkabout Cafe.    That Ice Cream was AWESOME.

Oh yes! I remember Carvel. Someone I knew at that time they opened (must have been the mid 80s) raved about how wonderful Carvel was when she was growing up in New York. It lasted about 5 minutes -- correct me if I'm wrong but it's just soft serve ice cream, right?

Reminds me of White Castle Hamburgers. It's the kind of thing that brings back youthful memories for people who grew up somewhere else, not because it was so delicious but because it was what ate when they were a kid.

They open one here, everyone who grew up with it gets excited and goes a couple of times and that's it -- not enough to keep the place(s) in business, because, after all, they're not really good, just nostalgic, and they can't compete with other (better) places that are here.

OK, all you Carvel & White Castle lovers, go ahead and flame me. I'm a native Houstonian and I just don't get the attraction for either of these restaurants.

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I remember "Texas Tumbleweeds".  I ate there alot with my parents back in the early 80's.  There was one off 1960 close to the old North Oaks Mall.  As I can remember, great steaks, rolls, and homemade ranch dressing.

Used to eat at Strack Farms close to Spring.  That is still there and pretty much the same.  Still has the Miss Pac Man video game I used to always play.

Also remember JoJo's of 1960 - awesome desserts!!

What abour Biaperrettis(?)  great itallian place.  Not sure if theyare still around or not.

Ah, finally something from my neighborhood!

What can y'all tell me about Monterey House? Was it very good? I know that when I was a kid, it was the only TexMex place my family went to - apparently the craze hadn't taken off, or there just weren't many options in the 1960 area. All I remember is that when you ate all your chips, there was a piece of Mexican candy at the bottom. I used to LIVE for that piece of candy!

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H2B, what can you tell me about Someburger? Do you remember where their locations were in the Heights? The reason why I ask is that back in the 50's-60's, an aunt and two uncles of mine used to run a Someburger in the Heights. My uncle still has jars full of the wartime silver nickels that he picked out of the change. They were Italian, if that rings a bell... perhaps it was the one you went to!

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Reminds me of White Castle Hamburgers. It's the kind of thing that brings back youthful memories for people who grew up somewhere else, not because it was so delicious but because it was what ate when they were a kid.

That is a very astute observation, lowspark. I remember having wonderful experiences as a kid at places that I am reluctant to associate with now, the prime example being McDonald's. My mom says that whenever we drove by I would shout "Hambuhgahhhh!" and I know for a fact that up until about fourth grade, a Happy Meal was the greatest meal on earth (I can still remember the smell of the food when my dad came to elementary school to eat lunch with me and brought a Happy Meal).

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To me it says so much about the innocence of childhood that our standards were so low and a few colorful decorations and a man with a smile at the counter could make us so happy. Perhaps, if we were to step back far enough, we would see that the difference in quality between a McDonald's hamburger and a prime steak is really only very miniscule, and that it is the vanity and falseness that we have acquired that makes one so intolerable, and the other so essential. I know certain relatives of mine who have largely retained this innocence through most of their lives, and still happily enjoy certain things that I have rejected through my sophistication (especially after going to college with a bunch of rich kids). In a way then, we are the authors of our own misery, and even the most seemingly hideous conditions of life could be made happy and pleasant if we were to recover this innocence and naivete...

This same idea could even be extended to... ARCHITECTURE. When I was growing up, I never noticed anything wrong with the "cheap," "bland," "prosaic" buildings of the suburbs where I lived. It was only after going to college in Chicago that I became a snob, and suburban Houston was ruined for me. I sometimes wonder if I would have loved a place like the Astrodome as fervently as I always have if I had not seen it until my critical faculties were developed. No doubt I would have found it overblown, and the firework show on the scoreboard crass and cheesy. Witness also how people from "sophisticated" cities like Chicago and Boston whine on and on about their architecture and neighborhood planning, while folks in Houston are happily oblivious to it. In a way, we as a city are still, for better or worse, in our childhood on this issue.

**** WARNING H-Town Man has waxed philosophical WARNING ****

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Speaking of how easy it is to make a kid happy:

When I was about four, my father took the family to a soda fountain for ice cream. When it was time for me to place my order, I said I wanted a milkshake.

"What flavor?"

"Raspberry."

"We have chocolate, vanilla and strawberry. No raspberry."

"But I want raspberry!", I insisted.

"We don't have that."

I guess my father saw my disappointment. "Bring him a raspberry milkshake," he said.

The soda jerk rolled his eyes. "Sir, we don't have..."

"Sure you do," my dad interjected. "See?", pointing at the menu. "S-T-R-A-W-B-E-R-R-Y. Raspberry."

Best raspberry shake I ever had.

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