Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Glen Yoshiaki Gondo (1948 – July 1, 2024) was an American businessman, restaurateur, and cultural advocate.Gondo, whose parents opened the first Japanese restaurant and sushi bar in Houston, Texas, is credited with popularizing Japanese cuisine and culture in the city. [1]
The following restaurants and restaurant chains are located in Houston, Texas This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Some Japanese restaurants in Houston are owned by persons of Japanese backgrounds, although the majority are not. There was a restaurant named Tokyo Gardens which stopped operations in 1998; Erica Cheng of the Houston Chronicle wrote that during the period it was active, it "was Houston’s premier Japanese restaurant". [ 24 ]
The restaurant popularized fajitas in the Houston area. [3] This dish was so influential that, by 2001, just about all Tex-Mex restaurants in Houston served a version of the Ninfa's fajitas. [7] Original Ninfa's tacos al carbón/fajitas. The second most popular dish was the "Green Sauce," an avocado and tomatillo sauce.
The restaurant stopped operations in 1998. Erica Cheng of the Houston Chronicle wrote that during the period it was active, it "was Houston’s premier Japanese restaurant". [30] In 1978 W.L. Taitte stated in Texas Monthly that the restaurant, which had servers do Japanese dances, "tries hard with the Japanese act for frustrated tourists."
Another unique aspect of the mall within its corridors was the Clock of Texas diorama, an animated look at the history of Texas through the centuries. [citation needed] Sharp would also place a time capsule in the cornerstone of the mall. [7] When Sharpstown Center opened, it was located on the edge of Houston's southwest suburbs.
Almeda Mall is a shopping mall located in the Southeast Houston neighborhood of Genoa on Interstate 45. The mall opened in 1968. [1] The anchor stores are dd's DISCOUNTS, and 3.6.5. One vacant anchor store was once Burlington. [2] The other was Macy's, closing in 2025. [3] The mall has 782,353 square feet (72,683.0 m 2) in leasable space. [4]
Greenspoint Mall was a shopping mall located in the Greenspoint neighborhood of Houston, Texas, at the northeast corner of Interstate 45 and Beltway 8 (also known as the Sam Houston Parkway/Tollway). The only remaining anchor is Fitness Connection, which occupies half of the former Lord & Taylor/Mervyn's store on the west side of the mall.