atticus

Go to any restaurant supply store - ex: there's one on 34th near Ella - that stuff is everywhere! Also, on the new place where the K-Mart used to be: It's a membership place - I think you need an affiliation with a registered restaurant or club. Mainly food items when I went by. I'm lucky enough to have gone to the Green Parrot with my parents before it closed. Thanks for mentioning its location. I was uncertain where it was. A very memorable place. Yes. Are they gone? They and the restaurant across the hallway were run by The Houston Oaks Hotel - or whatever they're called now - the hotel on the front of the Galleria (westheimer) I'm having to work at remembering the name. The one I'm thinking of was just east of Montrose on W. Alabama, had cheese sauces for the hamburgers instead of cheese, served beer? I'll post again if I remember. Try the Antone's in the Village. They employ one of the original employees and the sandwiches are as good as you remember - ask for extra chow-chow. You might enjoy Cleburne's Cafeteria on Bissonett near Edloe - just down from Channel 13.

Magic Pan, Galleria ( there's a website, magic pan.com, I think, for all of us fans) Brittain's Broiler Burger Nanny's (owned by Blue Ribbon Packing Company) on Calhoun behind U of H - great cream gravy! ORIGINAL Ninfa's (Carlos, the waiter, works for her sons now at their place) Leo's Mexican Restaurant on Shepherd Armando's (good substitute is Bocados Restaurant on W. Alabama near St. Thomas) Bombay Palace (staff and cooks have gone to Gourmet India, 13155 Westheimer, past Dairy-Ashford) Allbritton's Cafeteria Taco Bueno - the closest one is in Waco, I think steak sandwich place that was in Carillon Center on Westheimer Roy Roger's Roast Beef Sandwiches - loved the sweet BBQ sauce mixed with the horseradish sauce - yum a bakery/deli called Maxim's (?) that was in strip center on San Felipe near Fountainview Sakowitz on Post Oak's sandwich shop (when it was upstairs and good) Marshall-Fields - Galleria - chicken salad sandwiches Lotus Chinese Restaurant - Westheimer/Fountainview - Beef and Scallops Oak'n Bucket strudel shop in the Galleria - tiny (1 booth) but good - cream cheese strudel and almond/apricot Ruby Red's Hamburger Matranga's STILL HERE1: Felix's, Bocado's,Neilsen's Deli, Kolache Shop Richmond/Weslayan, Edloe Deli in West U

That was Brittain's Broiler Burger - one of my all-time favorite places to eat. Beck's does a pretty good copy of the old "number 2 with cheese" with their Bubba Burger minus the lettuce and tomatoes and add onions. If you've never tried it, Beck's has a couple of very nice locations - one on Westheimer between Chimney Rock and Fountainview (they saved a BEAUTIFUL old oak tree and put seating below) and the other is next to the "pro shop" at Memorial Park golfcourse - north of Memorial Drive. You can sit outside and look out over the fairway or putting area - like "being at the country club". There may be a Broiler Burger preserved on Bellaire (near where it splits with Bisonett) but I was not impressed with their food. Didn't come close to the Brittain's Broiler Burger I remember so fondly.