Restaurants from your childhood that don’t exist anymore

[elfenix 34,749]

marco's mexican restaurant in houston.  i don't even remember if it was good, only that they had an abuelita making tortillas behind a window right up front.  last one i remember seeing was in kingwood 10 years ago. 

[CooterBrown 18,288]

Whatever the bag of 25 cent burgers place was. My memory is that it was by Rooster Andrews on Guadalupe but I could be wrong.

[RDCanecutter 26,882]

Y'all are mostly talking about chains. The gone restaurants of my childhood were mostly one-offs, one family running them, parents, then kids, then the grandkids ditched that life. Unless you passed through my town, you never would have heard of them.

The main chain I miss is Judy's. Wendy's clone based out of Nashville, it might have been run by the Wendy's dude's brother. Anything I could have gotten in a Judy's, I could go down the street and get from Wendy's now.

But it wouldn't be Judy's.

Edited August 15, 2018 by RDCanecutter

[Underdog 29,177]

Burger Chef

Holiday House

Chelsea’s

Giovanni’s - Highland Mall

Limon’s - Pleasant Valley location

 

 

[Zepol87 9,341]

I don't think The Feed Bag exists anymore.  There was one in Plano and one in Uptown (Dallas) for the longest time.  Big ass steak cut fries that were the bomb.  Decent burger, too.

Loved the feed bag in mesquite

[deadshank 24,654]

Minnie Pearl's Fried Chicken (2 miles from the old homestead)

Jamie's (Dallas....not Jaime's)

Zuider Zee

 

[gsoda3 3,362]

Oh man purdy's. Only one I knew of was at plano Rd and Campbell in Richardson. Were there more? It wasn't bad food, wasn't good food, but a good place to kill time. I always liked fudd's more.

No love for Purdy’s? It was Fuddruckers before it was cool.
is Mr. Jim’s pizza still around? Best Chinese food carton of Pepsi money could buy.

[Deej 77,813]

Nick's Great Pizza on 2222, near 620.

[RPM 26,624]

[Guest]

The Drumstick

in Denver metro.  Cheesy family dining with a badass train that went around the dining room's perimeter at ceiling level. 

Edited August 16, 2018 by slorch

[RollLeft 5,090]

16 hours ago, EE2B said:

Bonanza. My parents loved that damn place.

The only thing i remember from that place was the banana pudding.  I'll see your Bonanza and raise you Sirloin Stockade for shitty steakhouse family night.  

[Zepol87 9,341]

The only thing i remember from that place was the banana pudding.  I'll see your Bonanza and raise you Sirloin Stockade for shitty steakhouse family night.  

Had sirloin stockade about 7 years ago in some shitty town in South Mississippi. Terrible

[RollLeft 5,090]

20 minutes ago, Zepol87 said:

 

Had sirloin stockade about 7 years ago in some shitty town in South Mississippi. Terrible

 

K Bobs were decent.  I once ate at the one in Ft. Stockton Texas.  Apparently Selena(s) had eaten there the day before and signed the wall by the register.  It was a big fkn deal for that town.  

[Brisketexan 106,889]

K Bobs were decent.  I once ate at the one in Ft. Stockton Texas.  Apparently Selena(s) had eaten there the day before and signed the wall by the register.  It was a big fkn deal for that town.  

It’s still there. It’s one of the “places to go.”

[utee94 16,083]

8 hours ago, Jive Turkey said:

I don't think The Feed Bag exists anymore.  There was one in Plano and one in Uptown (Dallas) for the longest time.  Big ass steak cut fries that were the bomb.  Decent burger, too.

 

8 hours ago, gsoda3 said:

the feed bag was awesome.  had lunch at the one in plano a bunch in HS.

[ftf82 491]

K-Bobs in Clovis is outstanding, Salad Wagon and all. I will fight you if you disagree. Even has a bar to catch part of the game if driving through on a fall Monday evening.

[PRONG HORN 3,219]

4 hours ago, slorch said:

The Drumstick

in Denver metro.  Cheesy family dining with a badass train that went around the dining room's perimeter at ceiling level. 

 

94th Aero Squadron

On the main runway of Stapleton.  

http://barthworks.com/aviation/aviation_historic_artifacts/1980_1982_94th_aerosqadron_restaurant/1980_1982_94th_aerosqadron_restaurant.htm

[WhatTheBuck 28,929]

Buffalo Wild Wings & Weck

[RPM 26,624]

20 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Buffalo Wild Wings & Weck

You misspelled shithole.

[WhatTheBuck 28,929]

21 minutes ago, RPM said:

You misspelled shithole.

When did you eat there? And at which location?

[RPM 26,624]

I think it was on Airport Freeway in Euless. Been at least 10 years ago, but it was not good.

[Johnny Sack 8,397]

Anyone remember the Boston Sea Party?

[WhatTheBuck 28,929]

1 hour ago, RPM said:

I think it was on Airport Freeway in Euless. Been at least 10 years ago, but it was not good.

Buffalo Wild Wings & Weck hasn't been around in a good 20 years or more. And they never had a store in Texas. You never ate there. 

[RPM 26,624]

[deadshank 24,654]

1 hour ago, Johnny Sack said:

Anyone remember the Boston Sea Party?

Wasn't  that where Molina's on Westheimer is now located.  Went there a few times. 

[Tom 2,960]

13 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

There are 14 total -- one in Borger, one in Monahans...and the rest are mostly in the upper midwest (IL and IA), with a few on the east coast.  How far the mighty, Monte Cristo-cooking have fallen.

 

Ah, the Monte Cristo!  Sandwich of choice for Americans who love imminent hot diarrhea.  

[Onboard 2.0 9,083]

White Castle's

[WhatTheBuck 28,929]

9 hours ago, RPM said:

Did you see Beef on Weck on the menu? You ate at Buffalo Wild Wings, the hollow corporate shell of the restaurant started in 1982 as Buffalo Wild Wings & Weck. You ate at BDubs, not bw-3. I'm referring to the latter. Trust me, there's a huge difference. 

 

[Sbbruin 22,143]

On 8/14/2018 at 9:12 PM, Gil Bang said:

 

Still a Sambo’s beachfront in Santa Barbara CA

 

I ate there a year ago for breakfast, and it was glorious.

[smuggs 9,397]

14 hours ago, ftf82 said:

K-Bobs in Clovis is outstanding, Salad Wagon and all. I will fight you if you disagree. Even has a bar to catch part of the game if driving through on a fall Monday evening.

 

There was a K-Bob's on 290 in Oak Hill back in the day. The Salad Wagon was legit.

[Brisketexan 106,889]

10 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Buffalo Wild Wings & Weck hasn't been around in a good 20 years or more. And they never had a store in Texas. You never ate there. 

 

29 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Did you see Beef on Weck on the menu? You ate at Buffalo Wild Wings, the hollow corporate shell of the restaurant started in 1982 as Buffalo Wild Wings & Weck. You ate at BDubs, not bw-3. I'm referring to the latter. Trust me, there's a huge difference. 

 

When they opened on 6th street in Austin, they were Buffalo Wild Wings & Weck -- I distinctly remember reading the description of their name and "weck" on the menu.  Now, that was 20 years ago or so, and they became BW-3 shortly thereafter, but when they opened, weck was a thing.

[dcbc 14,644]

Hamburgers by Gourmet, Westheimer, just inside the loop in Houston.  Best burger ever (up there with Mad Dog & Beans for me).  I read on TOS that there was another location or two, but that one is burned into my taste bud memory.

Edited August 16, 2018 by dcbc

[gsoda3 3,362]

wasn't my childhood when it closed, but christian's totem.

[Brisketexan 106,889]

I can go Houston old-school here.

Yamin's pizza on Gessner just north of the SW fwy -- owned by a family of one of my long-time school-mates.  Pretty good damned pizza, first place that I put away a whole (small) pizza by myself, as a growing boy.

Ludy's pizza -- damned sure nobody knows about this one.  It was at the entrance of my neighborhood -- Braeburn Valley West -- when we moved in, circa 1974.  It was great, in a strip center next to Sunny's food mart, and was the first restaurant that I remember being upset about it closing.

Danver's hamburgers on Gessner just before the SW fwy -- think Fuddruckers before Fuddruckers.  Good, thick burgers, and a huge fixings bar so you could make it the way you liked it.  My dad LOVED that place, as did my wife's dad -- we didn't know each other back then, but we can guarantee that we were there on the same Saturday night at least once, probably much more than once.

Mr. Steak -- a cheap steak joint.  Really cheap.  But when I was little, my family was pretty po, and my dad liked steak.  So, we went there a good bit.  I think it was on Fondren, between Westpark and Westheimer.

[utee94 16,083]

Giovanni's Pizza By The Slice in the mall.

 

 

[WhatTheBuck 28,929]

48 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

 

When they opened on 6th street in Austin, they were Buffalo Wild Wings & Weck -- I distinctly remember reading the description of their name and "weck" on the menu.  Now, that was 20 years ago or so, and they became BW-3 shortly thereafter, but when they opened, weck was a thing.

Lawyers, man. I don't know about a bw-3 in Austin or when it was opened. Let's assume your memory is accurate. That would've been a corporate franchise with sauce made elsewhere, not in house. I don't know what their Buffalo chips were like. (They totally suck now.) Did you have their Weck rolls? What were they like?

You mean they adopted the standardized corporate name of Buffalo Wild Wings shortly thereafter. Weck is the third W in bw-3. There wasn't a quick, clean separation in the transformation from one to the other. And RPM wasn't talking about some old Austin franchise that you could raise as a technicality to refute my assertion that bw-3 wasn't in Texas. (Jesus, I used to think I was anal retentive.)

 When I first ate there they had one store. They opened a second store on south campus that was 2-3 blocks from my first apartment. We used to get 10¢ wings on Tuesdays, take them home, and watch Moonlighting. My first apartment after school was not far from their third store (the oldest remaining -- the first two are gone). The changes started happening in the mid-90's. They were more noticeable in the new stores than in the older ones. As in any corporate enterprise dealing in volume, the small sacrifices of quality in favor of cost-cutting accumulate over time. 

Buffalo Wild Wings & Weck was at its best when they were all locally owned and locally operated. Those days are long gone. That's the restaurant that doesn't exist anymore I was talking about. Jesus. 

[Gil Bang 26,235]

1 hour ago, Sbbruin said:

I ate there a year ago for breakfast, and it was glorious.

We sat outside on a BEAUTIFUL Santa Barbara morning.  (Show me a prettier place and I'll kiss your ass).  Anyway, we were really enjoying the food and the view, until some dipshit on a Harley with straight pipes had to pass by revving his engine as loud as possible to compensate for his tiny cock.  

[WhatTheBuck 28,929]

21 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

We sat outside on a BEAUTIFUL Santa Barbara morning.  (Show me a prettier place and I'll kiss your ass).

Like killing two birds with one stone. And that's no insult to Santa Barbara. 

[G650 14,437]

44 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

We sat outside on a BEAUTIFUL Santa Barbara morning.  (Show me a prettier place and I'll kiss your ass).  Anyway, we were really enjoying the food and the view, until some dipshit on a Harley with straight pipes had to pass by revving his engine as loud as possible to compensate for his tiny cock.  

There's no other kind of morning in SB

[RDCanecutter 26,882]

Axed myself "the fuck is weck?" Googled it.

Buffalo Vild Vings und Veck.

[elfenix 34,749]

1 hour ago, dcbc said:

Hamburgers by Gourmet, Westheimer, just inside the loop in Houston.  Best burger ever (up there with Mad Dog & Beans for me).  I read on TOS that there was another location or two, but that one is burned into my taste bud memory.

another place that i don't remember if it was actually good or not, luke's hamburgers, which is now the sex toy shop next to the galleria.  lots of good memories of hitting it up on the way back from the astros or astroworld. 

14 hours ago, PRONG HORN said:

 

94th Aero Squadron

On the main runway of Stapleton.  

http://barthworks.com/aviation/aviation_historic_artifacts/1980_1982_94th_aerosqadron_restaurant/1980_1982_94th_aerosqadron_restaurant.htm

there's still one in columbus, ohio, just on the east side of the airport (where you can see a sud aviation caravelle used for fire training). 

Edited August 16, 2018 by elfenix

[jimmyjazz 47,172]

I remember the name change due to pressure over the "racist" aspect of the name "Sambo's".

"Jolly Tiger" and "No Place Like Sam's" were the two choices, and they used both.  Good job, Marketing Department.

[Big D 249]

Anyone from Denver remember The Hungry Farmer? Cool place.  Of course we always went to Casa Bonita, which I think is still around thanks to South Park.

[Brisketexan 106,889]

24 minutes ago, Big D said:

Anyone from Denver remember The Hungry Farmer? Cool place.  Of course we always went to Casa Bonita, which I think is still around thanks to South Park.

Used to be Don's Hungry Farmer in Texas.  I remember eating at one on the south side of San Antonio with my grandparents (they had come in to SA for a VA appointment).  It was a real country cafe sorta thing, but also had damned fine cheese enchiladas, IIRC.

[Brisketexan 106,889]

Another Houston one -- The Strawberry Patch.  Had a kickass CFS the size of home plate.

[SimonBolivar 11,064]

25 minutes ago, Big D said:

Anyone from Denver remember The Hungry Farmer? Cool place.  Of course we always went to Casa Bonita, which I think is still around thanks to South Park.

Did the tornado destroy it 10 minutes after this picture was taken?

[dcbc 14,644]

45 minutes ago, elfenix said:

luke's hamburgers

It definitely was way better than average from my memory of it.  May have had crinkle cut fries?

[dcbc 14,644]

34 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

The Strawberry Patch

Killer restaurant. 

I think there was a restaurant called "Circus" near there as well.

[Updawg 2,385]

Yep still there. We stop there on our way back from trips out west. Glad I'm not the only one

K Bobs were decent.  I once ate at the one in Ft. Stockton Texas.  Apparently Selena(s) had eaten there the day before and signed the wall by the register.  It was a big fkn deal for that town.  

[Bojack 2,091]

From Southeast Texas during my childhood, Channel Inn, Dorothy's Front Porch, Boondocks, Shep's.

From my early adulthood in Austin, I used to love Cafe Spiazzo in the little strip mall by 2222 and Mopac. It was a great place to bring dates.