houstonray Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 Just read an article that all of the Pig Stands have closed?!?! It said the store in Houston and Beaumont and all the ones in San Antonio. That really sucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wendyps Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 The sign on the door just says closed for repairs. they are doing all that street work outside of it...maybe it is just that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnu Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 The sign on the door just says closed for repairs. they are doing all that street work outside of it...maybe it is just that...http://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/stor...13/daily43.htmlThe closures were prompted after the Comptroller's office denied appeals by Vincent Luizza, the Chapter 11 trustee for Texas Pig Stand Inc., to keep the three stores open while he continued the search to find a buyer for the business......The company had planned to borrow funds against its real estate to pay off its past-due sales taxes. However, Pig Stands Inc. officials contend that the company was still in negotiations with a prospective lender on Nov. 8 when the Comptroller's office suspended its licenses to operate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houstonray Posted November 19, 2006 Author Share Posted November 19, 2006 Just read another article (google news "Pig Stand") and it's definitely closed for "other" reasons than repair. They have been in bankruptcy for over a year and are delinquent in back sales tax. The owner is looking for a buyer but in the interim, the State of Texas ordered them all closed indefinitely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
west20th Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 Wonder what the cost would be to buy out just the Houston location? Anyone know how to find out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wendyps Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 Wonder what the cost would be to buy out just the Houston location? Anyone know how to find out?betcha that would be a great investment with everything going on over there right now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houstonray Posted November 20, 2006 Author Share Posted November 20, 2006 I was just talking about that with a friend. With the right investor, some money poured into a general 'overhaul' of the place, keep the same menu, etc, that place is a Houston landmark that has potential. And with more and more traffic coming to the area because of Sawyer Heights, it's only going to get busier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbigtex56 Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 First New Orleans Po' Boys, then Diedrich's, then Helios, now this... Is every cool place in Houston under assault? If a buyer can be found to reopen the place, I hope they don't fix it up too much. Sometimes people scrub the charm right out. The Pig Stand allowed me to brag that my butt has occupied the same stool as Shirley MacLaine's. It was one of the settings used in The Evening Star. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rps324 Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 First New Orleans Po' Boys, then Diedrich's, then Helios, now this...Is every cool place in Houston under assault? If a buyer can be found to reopen the place, I hope they don't fix it up too much. Sometimes people scrub the charm right out. The Pig Stand allowed me to brag that my butt has occupied the same stool as Shirley MacLaine's. It was one of the settings used in The Evening Star. Yes, but it could use some scrubbing. I am a big fan of "comfort food" like they served at the Pig, but the lack of cleanliness there kind of kept me from going very often. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilyheights Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 Yes, but it could use some scrubbing. I am a big fan of "comfort food" like they served at the Pig, but the lack of cleanliness there kind of kept me from going very often.Never mentioned this before, because despite my experience I like the place and wanted to see it continue:Unfortunately, this was my case too. The occasional roach sighting I could handle...it was when one crawled all the way up to my father's collar that I wrote the place off.Still, I'm sorry to see it closing. If someone would scrub it and fumigate, I'd come back in a heartbeat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modernceo Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 First New Orleans Po' Boys, then Diedrich's, then Helios, now this...Is every cool place in Houston under assault? If a buyer can be found to reopen the place, I hope they don't fix it up too much. Sometimes people scrub the charm right out. The Pig Stand allowed me to brag that my butt has occupied the same stool as Shirley MacLaine's. It was one of the settings used in The Evening Star. New Orleans Po' Boys is closing/has closed !!! ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 New Orleans Po' Boys is closing/has closed !!! ?yep - http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...?showtopic=7788 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modernceo Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 yep - http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...?showtopic=7788 Yeahp, just posted in that thread. So sad to hear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houstonray Posted November 20, 2006 Author Share Posted November 20, 2006 First New Orleans Po' Boys, then Diedrich's, then Helios, now this...Is every cool place in Houston under assault?......I also read on the restaurant thread that Eatzi's closed last week! Holy cow, what's happening to our cool places? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PureAuteur Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 Was Pig Stand the oldest restaurant in Houston? I remember another thread about a really old place from the 40s that closed down but that was a while back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heights_yankee Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 I also read on the restaurant thread that Eatzi's closed last week! Holy cow, what's happening to our cool places?Eatzi's closed b/c that whole strip center is being demolished. I don't know what Cafe Annie is going to do... but they are going to have mixed use- residential on top and retail below. It's going to be the home of the new 25,000+ sq ft Whole Foods! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 there's a couple of old pictures of the pig stand from the chronicle (little camera icon by the story):http://www.chron.com/news/houston/and the story:http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metrop...an/4350454.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.I.H. Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 Was bad enough when the one on Sheppard closed.... Ahh.... The memories of Regan High and the Pig Stand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicman Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 on live at 5, they interviewed a former employee who said that they are going to try and reopen on Dec 1. we'll have to see what happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmainguy Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 on live at 5, they interviewed a former employee who said that they are going to try and reopen on Dec 1. we'll have to see what happens. I hope so because the chicken fried steak at BBQ Inn has gone to the toilet. I need my cardiac on a plate from Pig Stand!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicman Posted November 22, 2006 Share Posted November 22, 2006 I hope so because the chicken fried steak at BBQ Inn has gone to the toilet. I need my cardiac on a plate from Pig Stand!!!!!!! you need to hit Telwink! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmainguy Posted November 22, 2006 Share Posted November 22, 2006 you need to hit Telwink! Been there-done that. I'm not knocking it but the PS adds just the right amount of salt and pepper in the gravy and sometimes the meat is so tender you can cut it with a fork. Besides, the ambiance of the pig motif plus the stylish waitresses is unsurpassed this side of Paris...Texas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted November 22, 2006 Share Posted November 22, 2006 Been there-done that. I'm not knocking it but the PS adds just the right amount of salt and pepper in the gravy and sometimes the meat is so tender you can cut it with a fork.Besides, the ambiance of the pig motif plus the stylish waitresses is unsurpassed this side of Paris...Texas For once we can agree on something. Even though the chicken fried steak usually has a chicken fried blood vessel somewhere within it that is impossibly chewy, the flavor is better. And between the decorum and the career waitresses with the gritty voices from a lifetime of smoking...just makes for a good experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkultra25 Posted November 23, 2006 Share Posted November 23, 2006 I was driving down Washington while running errands this afternoon, and noticed someone changing the letters on the sign in the Pig Stand's parking lot. When I was headed home an hour or so later, it now read "Employees Fundraiser Tomorrow". No further details, and by that time the guy who'd been changing the letters was gone, or I'd have stopped to ask him about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houstonray Posted November 23, 2006 Author Share Posted November 23, 2006 I was driving down Washington while running errands this afternoon, and noticed someone changing the letters on the sign in the Pig Stand's parking lot. When I was headed home an hour or so later, it now read "Employees Fundraiser Tomorrow". No further details, and by that time the guy who'd been changing the letters was gone, or I'd have stopped to ask him about it. A tchotchke pig auction perhaps?? If it's not going to reopen, I wouldn't mind a small ceramic/glass/metal/wood/whatever pig as a memory of the "good old days".... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToolMan Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 I always drove by and said to my friends "We have to check this place out", but we never did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Julio Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 If it's not going to reopen, I wouldn't mind a small ceramic/glass/metal/wood/whatever pig as a memory of the "good old days".... ...and I wouldn't mind having that glorious neon 'Coffee Shop' sign that offsets all of the beyond-hideous condos now dotting Washington Ave. This is truly horrible news. The Pig Stands here, and in SA and Beaumont, were the last of the old-time diners still left in South Texas. When I moved back to town a few months ago, this was one of the first places I headed to. Now the corner of Washington & Sawyer will just be another #@*&! condo... I'm joining the Taliban... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luvtheheights Posted December 8, 2006 Share Posted December 8, 2006 . The Pig Stands here, and in SA and Beaumont, were the last of the old-time diners still left in South Texas.You still have Yale Street Diner!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torvald Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 bicycled past the pig stand today and noticed that the two wall mounted wooden pig waiters are missing. i think they had the location numbers on them... hope they went to a good place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
segovia Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 Chatters Cafe & Bistro (140 S Heights Boulevard) has an excellent weekend brunch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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