Restaurants from your childhood that don’t exist anymore

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2 hours ago, ImissWallyPryor said:

The San Antonio location is still there, I think.

http://theoldsanfrancisco.com

 

Sorta kinda not really. It's still there but it's now an event space and it looks like they no long have the whore in the swing.

[YoungCounty 165]

Pizza Inn

K-Bobs

Pit BBQ

ShowBiz Pizza

[luke duke 6410]

 
imminent hot diarrhea.  

Is there another kind?

[Player 4575]

[Liquor and Poker 3659]

6 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

My childhood best friend lived at that end of the neighborhood, at the dead end of Spellman. Blew through a lotta quarters at Scoops and Games.

As for Lalo’s, that was the first place I had linguini al pesto....and I went to high school with the son of the family that owned it, the Portos.

Wait. I lived on the dead end of Spellman. Who was your friend?

 

The Portos.   That’s right.  Wow. 

[Mr.Hovis 70]

Are there any of the Steak n Egg places left? There were a few around DFW at one point. Not sure if the they were a regional or national chain. Food was meh, but open 24/7 so an option for drunken dinning.

[LonghornGoodfella 114]

GM Steakhouse

Holiday House

Airport Haven

Original Nighthawk

and not a restaurant but i fucking miss Pandemonium. 

[dcbc 14451]

21 minutes ago, Mr.Hovis said:

Are there any of the Steak n Egg places left? There were a few around DFW at one point. Not sure if the they were a regional or national chain. Food was meh, but open 24/7 so an option for drunken dinning.

The one on Sage in Houston is long gone.  I enjoyed going there late night though.

[jimmyjazz 45787]

On 8/16/2018 at 9:33 PM, Judge Roybeanbag said:

Little Italy.  It was great.  Next to Wallys.   

That was my go-to first date spot in college.  I was a baller.  Live piano music and straw-wrapped chianti bottles for the win.

[Deej 76705]

The original Dart Bowl cafe, when the bowling alley was on Burnet. The current location lacks the ambiance. 

[AustinMT 952]

Not exactly a restaurant, but does anyone remember Neal’s Ice Cream in Houston from the 80s?  First “craft” ice cream I ever had, and first Ilatian Ice I ever had.

[formermav43 4606]

5 hours ago, YoungCounty said:

Pizza Inn

K-Bobs

Pit BBQ

ShowBiz Pizza

I loved Love Pizza Inn.

[Judge Roybeanbag 11811]

2 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

That was my go-to first date spot in college.  I was a baller.  Live piano music and straw-wrapped chianti bottles for the win.

Yep.  I still have one of those bottles.  My now-wife and I ate there and got takeout often.  We lived a couple blocks away for years. 

[dcbc 14451]

1 hour ago, AustinMT said:

Not exactly a restaurant, but does anyone remember Neal’s Ice Cream in Houston from the 80s?  First “craft” ice cream I ever had, and first Ilatian Ice I ever had.

I remember when Steve's replaced Swensen's on Westheimer and Voss.  Both were delicious. 

[dcbc 14451]

Anyone remember the Pizza Place around Westheimer and Chimney Rock called De Tomato?  It was a Drive -Through.  Eventually became a Bubbles Car wash.  Delicious.

[Deej 76705]

57 minutes ago, dcbc said:

I remember when Steve's replaced Swensen's on Westheimer and Voss.  Both were delicious. 

Bubble gum ice cream from Swenson's.

[dcbc 14451]

20 minutes ago, Deej said:

Bubble gum ice cream from Swenson's.

That chocolate ice cream from Swenson's was thick and chewy like taffy.  So good. 

[Liquor and Poker 3659]

2 hours ago, AustinMT said:

Not exactly a restaurant, but does anyone remember Neal’s Ice Cream in Houston from the 80s?  First “craft” ice cream I ever had, and first Ilatian Ice I ever had.

Neal came and spoke to my high school magnet program ( business administration).  He got in a bit of trouble when he told an an anecdote about how clueless he was when he started the business. He said someone asked him what emulsifier hecwas using and he said “I thought ‘shit, I don’t even know what an emulsifier is.’”

The pearl clutchers in the teachers’ group gasped and it got silent.  He wasn’t invited back the next year. 

[FigurelliPwC 115]

7 hours ago, YoungCounty said:

Pizza Inn

K-Bobs

Pit BBQ

ShowBiz Pizza

K-Bobs in Fredericksburg is still going strong.

[Dbeasy 15022]

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Now I have no place to take my homecoming date.

[Rusty Shackelford 414]

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.

Still open there, I believe

[Rusty Shackelford 414]

Also some of y’all mentioned Panjo’s Pizza. I don’t know if it’s the same as Houston, but they have one that has been open in Corpus for 50 years

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

23 hours ago, Whitman said:

I think there are still about 5 or 6 of them off of 95 around the Richmond area .  I know one is down on the NC line in Emporia.  Friends and I would tempt fate and do their breakfast buffet years ago and then within an hour have to stop again for what we called "The Shoney's Shove".    

Yeah they're really just Shoneys in name only now.

[BigDHornfan 6542]

In the DFW area there was one called Next Door. On Josey Lane in Carrollton. There was a phone at the table you ‘d use to call in your order. Don’t remember much else about it though.

[Underdog 28529]

J Calendar’s.  First place I tried fajitas when we moved to Austin, yeah I know, loved their margaritas. 

[Doc Reeves 6434]

My family was in the service and I moved around Europe a lot so the only place that resonates with my childhood is a place called Schwartz Katza. All the staff knew slight of hand magic to entertain kids and I never saw the same trick twice.

 

Edited August 19, 2018 by Doc Reeves

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18 hours ago, Liquor and Poker said:

Wait. I lived on the dead end of Spellman. Who was your friend?

 

The Portos.   That’s right.  Wow.

 

Worlds are colliding, Jerry!

[EE2B 1561]

I loved Love Pizza Inn.

The last one I know of is in Sulphur Springs. That bitch is packed on Sundays.

[conVINCEd 21468]

Passed one in West Texas (Snyder maybe) about a month ago.

[rage-a-holic 4335]

8 hours ago, BigDHornfan said:

In the DFW area there was one called Next Door. On Josey Lane in Carrollton. There was a phone at the table you ‘d use to call in your order. Don’t remember much else about it though.

There was one in Richardson too, on Coit, between Arapaho and Belt Line in Promenade Center. Fucking loved that place way back when.

 

[PRONG HORN 3117]

On 8/17/2018 at 6:03 PM, dcbc said:

 

Charlies was on Bunker Hill and I-10.  "Over 2 Dozen served."

 

Charlie's was at Grisby near Highway 6.  That, and Roznovsky's original location were my childhood burger joints.  

[DalTxHornFan 3090]

Nothing Strikes Back on The Drag.  Psychedelic and black light ice cream parlor.  Great place to go after you'd already gotten your party on.

[dcbc 14451]

21 minutes ago, PRONG HORN said:

 

Charlie's was at Grisby near Highway 6.  That, and Roznovsky's original location were my childhood burger joints.  

I think there was more than one.  I recall there being one farther west on I-10.  Roznovsky's was great!

Anyone remember Pipe Organ Pizza?

[Gil Bang 25906]

There's one right off of 635 in Balch Springs.
How do I know this?
Because in a fit of what was clearly self-loathing, I stopped there and picked up road food heading home from a client meeting.  Batter dipped fish, hush puppies and fried okra.  Eaten with my free hand, seasoned with shame.

Free hand? Shame?

So you are with the right hand, jacked with the left, and steered with the kneee?

[SizzleChest 8282]

On 8/14/2018 at 11:37 PM, Lhorn said:

Used to love Shaky's.  They had these great breaded fried potatoes and chicken with your pizza.  Brilliant.

Mojos.  And they were breaded in this ridiculously salty powder that would add 30 mmHg to your diastolic upon ingestion.  At least they weren't frozen.

[Brisketexan 104845]

Mojos.  And they were breaded in this ridiculously salty powder that would add 30 mmHg to your diastolic upon ingestion.  At least they weren't frozen.

I think they’re called jojos - at least they are in the Midwest. And I just found that out a coupla years ago.

[po elvis 2070]

Monterey House in Plano in the late 70's. I want to say it was at Park and Custer, but could be wrong. I don't know if the food was good or not, but it seems like it was the only mexican food restaurant around back then, besides taco bueno, etc.

[elfenix 34208]

17 hours ago, dcbc said:

I think there was more than one. I recall there being one farther west on I-10.  Roznovsky's was great!

Anyone remember Pipe Organ Pizza?

brookshire, in a little white building on the north side of I-10.  used to eat there after little league sometimes. 

[elfenix 34208]

16 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

I think they’re called jojos - at least they are in the Midwest. And I just found that out a coupla years ago.

there was a jo-jo's cafe on I-10 at wilcrest in houston.  ate there for after church breakfast every few months or so.  it's a denny's now. 

[Brisketexan 104845]

19 minutes ago, elfenix said:

there was a jo-jo's cafe on I-10 at wilcrest in houston.  ate there for after church breakfast every few months or so.  it's a denny's now. 

No, goddamit!  The battered potato wedges are called "jojos."  I'm talking bout the taters, not a restaurant!

There also used to be a RESTAURANT called Jojo's -- there were several in Houston, including one we frequented on Braeswood.  They often featured a big round window into a courtyard as an architectural signature.  And in Austin, the same restaurant was called Coco's -- there was one at Anderson and Mopac.

We gots to keep this shit straight, understood?  It's important!

[Underdog 28529]

Wasn't there a Jo-jos Northbound I-35 near Oltorf?  Believe it became a mexican restaurant later on.  

[dcbc 14451]

17 hours ago, PRONG HORN said:

 

Charlie's was at Grisby near Highway 6.  That, and Roznovsky's original location were my childhood burger joints.  

There also was one at 9747 Katy Freeway (at Bunker Hill). 

[immortal13 4059]

On 8/18/2018 at 10:18 PM, Rusty Shackelford said:

Also some of y’all mentioned Panjo’s Pizza. I don’t know if it’s the same as Houston, but they have one that has been open in Corpus for 50 years

One in Rockport as well.

 

 

+1 on Showbiz Pizza. That animatronic Gorilla gave me nightmares, but I still loved that place as a kid

Edited August 20, 2018 by immortal13

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On 8/18/2018 at 9:18 PM, Rusty Shackelford said:

Also some of y’all mentioned Panjo’s Pizza. I don’t know if it’s the same as Houston, but they have one that has been open in Corpus for 50 years

Panjo's in Corpus is great. I don't think the interior ever changed the 25 years I lived in Corpus.

[immortal13 4059]

On our annual duck hunting trip in Rockport, the guys always want to eat at Panjo's. I personally think it kinda sucks. Maybe the one in Corpus is better

[Felix 600]

I miss 221 Cafe at the 221 Truck Stop in Buda.  That might have been the best breakfast in central Texas for about 15 years.

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1 hour ago, immortal13 said:

+1 on Showbiz Pizza. That animatronic Gorilla gave me nightmares, but I still loved that place as a kid

 

They made the band here into a shit copy when Chuck E Cheese took over. Fats will always be the real band leader yo.

 

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23 hours ago, po elvis said:

Monterey House in Plano in the late 70's. I want to say it was at Park and Custer, but could be wrong. I don't know if the food was good or not, but it seems like it was the only mexican food restaurant around back then, besides taco bueno, etc.

My parents used to always take us the Monterrey House on Burnet Road just south of 183 back in the late 70's through the mid 80's. Can't remember much about the food either other than the big brown sugar bombs that were always in the chip baskets. We'd always grab several of those for the ride back home. I'm sure my parents hated us gorging ourselves on these and the massive sugar high that came with it. 

[po elvis 2070]

16 minutes ago, PencilPusher said:

My parents used to always take us the Monterrey House on Burnet Road just south of 183 back in the late 70's through the mid 80's. Can't remember much about the food either other than the big brown sugar bombs that were always in the chip baskets. We'd always grab several of those for the ride back home. I'm sure my parents hated us gorging ourselves on these and the massive sugar high that came with it. 

That's right. I remember those candies now too.

[dcbc 14451]

34 minutes ago, PencilPusher said:

My parents used to always take us the Monterrey House on Burnet Road just south of 183 back in the late 70's through the mid 80's. Can't remember much about the food either other than the big brown sugar bombs that were always in the chip baskets. We'd always grab several of those for the ride back home. I'm sure my parents hated us gorging ourselves on these and the massive sugar high that came with it. 

Molinas always had big bowls of Pralines.  We'd hit those up hard when we left.