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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 .
When it opened the mall had 600,000 ft² (56,000 m²) of retail space. The original skylights — which graced among other things a large, floor-level, ice rink, open year-round - had three hanging chandeliers. A connected 400-room hotel was opened in September 1971, the Houston Oaks Hotel (now The Westin Oaks Houston). [12]
Molina's Cantina is a Tex-Mex restaurant chain in Houston, Texas. As of 2022, Molina's is the oldest still-operating Tex-Mex restaurant in Houston. Molina's is known for its family restaurant atmosphere and the employees who work in Molina's for many years at a time. As of 1992, one cashier had worked at Molina's for 20 years.
Westheimer Road and Westheimer Parkway are named after Mitchell (Michael) Louis Westheimer, [13] a prosperous German Jewish immigrant and flour salesman who had settled in Houston in 1859. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] He purchased a 640-acre (260 ha) farm west of Houston's city limits at the time, where Lamar High School and St. John's School are currently ...
In 1899, there were about 48 restaurants in Houston, with over 33% serving a cuisine other than Anglo-American. [1] Houstonians began to dine out for pleasure more commonly in the 1950s. [1] In 1998, USA Today referred to Houston as "the dining-out capital of the United States."
Frenchy's received recognition as a successful black-operated business. At that time the original restaurant alone had annual sales of $1.6 million. [8] By 1985 there were 12 Frenchy's restaurants in Greater Houston. At that time there was one restaurant in Southwest Houston geared to younger, trendier adults and there was one near River Oaks. [5]
Lower Westheimer is an area in Houston, Texas, United States. It is centered on Westheimer Road , and is considered to be East of Shepherd, and West of Midtown. Several historic neighborhoods are partially or completely located within the area including Montrose and Hyde Park.
"Excuse my French" appears an 1895 edition of Harper's Weekly, where an American tourist asked about the architecture of Europe says "Palaces be durned! Excuse my French." [3] [4] The phrase "pardon my French" is recorded in the 1930s and may be a result of English-speaking troops returning from the First World War. [4]