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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 .
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 ...
Since 2009, several Houston's locations around the US have changed their names to Hillstone. The company maintains the changes are in keeping with a long-term strategy of disassociating from the chain image to remain a niche player in the industry. The practice of changing restaurant names is not a new strategy for the company, which has similarly converted severa
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.
"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]
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]
Owen Brennan's [3] is a family-owned and operated restaurant much like the original Brennan's. However, the Brennan family does not own the restaurant. Owen Brennan's is a licensee of Brennan's in New Orleans. Owen Brennan's opened its doors to customers in 1990 under a partnership of investors. Burt Wolf was the general partner. In 1991, James ...