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There is a new store/warehouse place at the intersection of 18th/TC Jester/Ella - where K-Mart use to be. Some sort of Restaurant supply place.... anyone know anything about this?

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.

A couple of very nice restaurants, that I doubt any here would remember, were Hebert's (pronounced A-bear's) and the Green Parrot. I'm talking 40's - 50's time-frame. Hebert's was in an old house, built in 1904, and was located at the southeast corner of San Jacinto and McGowen. Hebert's food specialty was French, New Orleans style cooking, along with excellent steaks and fresh seafood prepared a variety of ways. The Green Parrot was also in an old house located a few blocks east of Almeda in the MacGregor/Riverside area. Its specialty was southern style, home-cooking. They served delicious fried chicken, cat fish, shrimp, meat loaf, etc., along with beans, green beans, turnip greens, and salads. Dessert fare was homemade pies and cakes.

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.

Does anyone remember a restaurant in The Galleria called "Shucker's", at least I think that's what it was called. The all you could eat boiled shrimpfor $5.99 was awesome, but you had to peel'em yourself. It was a nice little "sportsbar" type of 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 miss the Wine Press on West Gray and almost across the street Captian Johnny's- now the Pier one location.

But does anyone remember a burger place on Richmond or Alabama just west of Montrose that had a drive through window and a very psychedelic in style. Maybe mushroom was in the name?

If you know the name, please post.

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.

it never is as good as you remember. Antones is another place that was magical as a kid but now just tastes OK.

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.

Furrs Cafeteria, Wyatts Cafeteria, Picadilly Cafeteria, Allbritton Cafeteria.

Guess the cafeteria market kind of died out, huh? Even Luby's has closed many of their locations.

There are plenty of those all you can eat pig-out buffets around now to take up some of the slack, but I don't like those because I feel like I have to get my money's worth and usually end up overeating!

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.

I bet no one else remembers this: There was a restaurant on the corner of W. Belfort & Chimney Rock next to the (then) Weingartens which had little horses on springs arranged in a semi circle for kids to sit on while they ate their burgers.

I don't know what else they served or what the name of the place was but I LOVED that place back in the early/mid 60s.

Also I remember Bonanza -- they were all over town. There was one on Stella Link just inside the Loop that stayed in business at least till 1980.

And speaking of Stella Link inside the loop, remember Alfred's? It was a venerable "Kosher Style" Deli and I believe it stayed in business till Alfred died. His son owns Kahn's Deli in the village.