The Red Lion on South Shepherd Drive has been Houston’s go-to British pub since it opened, serving fish and chips, bangers and mash, scotch eggs, and the full British pub food canon alongside a deep selection of imported ales and lagers in a setting that transplanted Brits and anglophile Houstonians have been calling home for […]
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Houston, Restaurants, Season 8, TexasCafe Pita+ appeared in Season 7, Episode 11 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Family Style,” which aired November 2, 2009, as a Houston Bosnian restaurant serving the food of the former Yugoslavia — cevapi, burek, and the Eastern European-Mediterranean cooking that Houston’s Bosnian immigrant community brought with them — in a setting that gave the
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Houston, Mediterranean, Restaurants, Season 7, TexasNiko Niko’s on Montrose Boulevard has been a Houston institution since Niko Pappas opened it in 1977, serving Greek food to a city that didn’t know it needed a neighborhood Greek restaurant until it had one. It appeared in Season 7, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “You Can Say That Again,” which aired
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Greek, Houston, Mediterranean, Restaurants, Season 7, TexasZiggy Gruber is the third generation of a New York deli family who moved to Houston and opened Kenny and Ziggy’s New York Delicatessen in 1999, determined to bring the full New York Jewish deli experience — towering sandwiches, house-cured pastrami, matzo ball soup, knishes, cheesecake — to a city that had never had the
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Houston, Restaurants, Sandwiches, Season 7, TexasAubrey and Nona Lankford started a fruit stand in Houston’s Freedmen’s Town neighborhood in 1937, moved into a two-story building at 88 Dennis Street in 1939, and ran a full-service grocery there for four decades. In the early 1980s their daughter Eydie took over, recognized the big grocery chains weren’t beatable, and pivoted to a
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