SE Texas Valhalla?

[Born to Run 6583]

https://pointatpalacios.com/

 

 

I might need to relocate my boat to this fine city.

 

Beer, bait and tackle yeah...

 

Menudo, and Tacos

 

Bahn MI, Bun and Pho?

 

 

How did I miss this?

[royiv 9463]

Anthony Bourdain visited that place on the Houston episode of Parts Unknown.

[Bevo&Pevo 5389]

The Luther Hotel – Historical Hotel Located in Palacios, Texas (lutherhotelpalacios.com)

Here's a place to stay.

Palacios, if ya' didn't know is the home of UT's Oscar Giles.  Also, the home several young ladies who defeated my much younger self.

I may or may not have poured my school's letters into the football with gas before our annual rival game.

 

Edited December 18, 2021 by Bevo&Pevo

[tx 3 putt 77937]

@Mez2 lulz 

[billfromlaketravis 11605]

I’m intrigued. About a 90 minute drive from my house. 

[DalTxHornFan 3122]

1 hour ago, Born to Run said:

 

https://pointatpalacios.com/

 

 

I might need to relocate my boat to this fine city.

 

Beer, bait and tackle yeah...

 

Menudo, and Tacos

 

Bahn MI, Bun and Pho?

 

 

How did I miss this?

 

What a menu!  I could eat all my meals there for a week and never repeat myself.

Edited December 18, 2021 by DalTxHornFan

[Mez2 4036]

I pretty much grew up here for parts of summers during my elementary school year into my middle schools. My mom's side is from Palacios and still have lots of family there, my wife's side actually has a bayhouse in Cape Caranchua, about 5 miles outside Palacios but still considered Palacios. 

I've been to the Point many times and have taken my friends who visit there to eat - it's good, really good but if you eat during a Saturday or Sunday morning expect a wait since it does get slow due to traffic. Pro tip - call your order in ahead of time.  Maybe a quarter mile from the Point is a newish place called Danny's Seafood and it is fucking unreal.  If anyone is ever in Palacios I definitely recommend going there... fresh shrimp, seafood, burgers,  wings and usually a live band Saturday nights. They're only open Wednesday- Saturday, the owner and family live in Cypress but head down half the week to run Danny's. 

Everyone knows the Anthony Bourdain episode but on Netflix, one of Dave Changs 'Ugly Delicious' episodes spends a portion of their episodes on Palacios and their shrimping industry - the shrimp capital of Texas. I don't think they explicitly say they're in Palacios but I recognize the white water tower, red street signs and the family featured with Dave is a friend of my mom's family. 

The fishing is great, another of my uncles has a bayhouse about 2 blocks from the Luther hotel (my parents got married in 78 and had wedding party stay there) they've got a huge fishing pier that is popular during the night and multiple access points to launch into matagorda bay. Ive mentioned it here in a thread about if we could live in a small town and eventually I see my wife and I getting some property out here one day. The kids love going and it'll always feel like a part of me 

Go sharks!

[deadshank 24653]

I recall watching the Bourdain episode that featured this place.  So interesting and uplifting how folks can overcome their initial bias against “outsiders” (no CR) then accept them into the community as they become engrained as an integral and productive part of it.

Everybody deserves a chance.  

[HenryJames 66284]

Except the Irish.

[royiv 9463]

2 hours ago, HenryJames said:

Except the Irish.

And the Dutch.

[Hermanator 7295]

When I was a small child my parents took us to a Chinese restaurant for the first time. The only way they could get us to try something was for the waiter to tell us egg rolls were just "Chinese burritos".

Now for the first time I could go to a restaurant and have Chinese burritos and burritos in the same meal.