Bob’s Taco Station in Rosenberg has been a Fort Bend County institution since it opened, serving authentic Mexican tacos and the kind of from-scratch Mexican street food that earns a loyal following in a Houston suburb with no shortage of options. It appeared in Season 8, Episode 3 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Stacked, Stuffed
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Restaurants, Season 8, TexasT-Bone Tom’s on Highway 146 in Kemah has been serving the Galveston Bay area since it opened, combining steaks, seafood, and American comfort food in a setting that reflects the waterfront community it anchors. It appeared in Season 8, Episode 1 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Burgers, Steaks and Chops,” which aired November 23, 2009.
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American, 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, TexasPrince Lebanese Grill on West Randol Mill Road in Arlington has been serving authentic Lebanese food to the DFW metroplex since it opened, building a following around house-made hummus, fresh-baked pita, shawarma, and the kind of from-scratch Lebanese cooking that is genuinely difficult to find in North Texas. It appeared in Season 7, Episode 4
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Mediterranean, Restaurants, 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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Burgers, Comfort Food, Houston, Restaurants, Season 7, TexasAvila’s Mexican Restaurant on Maple Avenue in Dallas has been a neighborhood institution serving family-recipe Mexican food since the Avila family opened it, building a multi-generational following around enchiladas, tamales, and the kind of from-scratch Tex-Mex and interior Mexican cooking that earns decades of loyalty. It appeared in Season 6, Episode 13 of Diners, Drive-Ins
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Dallas, Mexican, Restaurants, Season 6, TexasFred’s Texas Cafe on Currie Street in Fort Worth has been a Linwood neighborhood institution since it opened in 1983, serving the kind of no-nonsense Texas burgers and comfort food that earns a decades-long loyal following in a city that takes its food seriously. It appeared in Season 6, Episode 9 of Diners, Drive-Ins and
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Burgers, Restaurants, Season 6, TexasGreen Mesquite on Barton Springs Road in Austin has been feeding the Zilker Park crowd since 1988, combining Texas BBQ and Tex-Mex in an outdoor-heavy setting that captures what eating in Austin on a good day actually feels like. It appeared in Season 5, Episode 10 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “BBQ and More,” which
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