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9 hours ago, Patricio Swayze said:

I miss Dragon Bowl in the Heights off 11th St.  Part of it is nostalgia for that moment in my life, but I thought they made a damn solid Asian-esque bowl.  I believe the owner was the same as Pink's Pizza. 

That place was the Duke.  A friend of mine developed and owned (may still) that strip center and he told me about it.   
 

Would eat there at least once a week.  The owner of Dragon Bowl did own Pink’s.  He told us he shut down DB not because it wasn’t making money but he just got tired of it.  
 

I’m still in spiritual winter over that decision 

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Yeah they had to change the name Bellagreen after he caught a charge on serving illegal seafood. Seems like he largely skated. 
 
Their food is very good and reasonably priced. The owner is a scumbag, but I’ll keep eating there. It’s the one of the few options in City Centre that doesn’t shake you down for a sit down dinner. 

I’m pretty sure Molzan’s wife got the Bellagreen restaurants in their divorce.
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I don’t know if I would call Bellagreen reasonably priced. The spinach salad with chicken, a drink and tip is like $22. I know inflation is a bitch, but damn it want THAT long ago that a Tex mex meal for my wife and I with a tip was like $25.

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4 hours ago, Patricio Swayze said:

I don’t know if I would call Bellagreen reasonably priced. The spinach salad with chicken, a drink and tip is like $22. I know inflation is a bitch, but damn it want THAT long ago that a Tex mex meal for my wife and I with a tip was like $25.

 

you made your wife fill up on chips and salsa ?

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12 hours ago, Mack Tripper said:


I’m pretty sure Molzan’s wife got the Bellagreen restaurants in their divorce.

She was his partner throughout all his shenanigans and no doubt was aware if not complicit. She is also a scumbag. 

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On 1/12/2023 at 5:59 PM, billfromlaketravis said:

Was the food at Vargo’s good? Better than Brenner’s on the Bayou? Or just a prom/wedding reception spot? 

Food was mediocre at best with a menu that was stuck in the 70’s. Setting was great though. 

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I've said it before, I'll say it again... Dolce Vita.  We spent so much time there :(  This one hurt.

Also, there used to be a wonderful Lebanese place called Mint Cafe off of Sage... family run with exceptional food but the family went back to Lebanon. I've stayed in touch with the son.

https://www.chron.com/entertainment/article/Mint-Cafe-Mediterranean-Grill-1816214.php

Speaking of Lebanese, Cafe Rita... the move to the Dairy Ashford location closer to Westheimer killed their business.  They were such a wonderful family.  

https://www.houstoniamag.com/eat-and-drink/2013/05/cafe-ritas-new-digs-may-2013

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10 minutes ago, texasdago said:

I've said it before, I'll say it again... Dolce Vita.  We spent so much time there :(  This one hurt.

Also, there used to be a wonderful Lebanese place called Mint Cafe off of Sage... family run with exceptional food but the family went back to Lebanon. I've stayed in touch with the son.

https://www.chron.com/entertainment/article/Mint-Cafe-Mediterranean-Grill-1816214.php

Speaking of Lebanese, Cafe Rita... the move to the Dairy Ashford location closer to Westheimer killed their business.  They were such a wonderful family.  

https://www.houstoniamag.com/eat-and-drink/2013/05/cafe-ritas-new-digs-may-2013

didn't get out to cafe rita often as it was in a bit of a no-man's land for me

has pita+ been mentioned yet?

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didn't get out to cafe rita often as it was in a bit of a no-man's land for me
has pita+ been mentioned yet?

Was that the Bulgarian place off westheimer (I think)? Saw it on triple D years ago. My wife and I went a couple of times and really liked it. Pretty heavy food, or at least the plate I got.
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13 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

If it’s the one by the Greyhound Station, I think it is, it’s closed. 

It’s dead, yes 

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Ho Sai Guy. It was old style "Chinese" with the big stainless, covered,serving platters. I'm 59, and I was able to take my young bride there a few times before it shut down. In what became the Galleria area. Anyone?

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1 hour ago, elfenix said:

didn't get out to cafe rita often as it was in a bit of a no-man's land for me

has pita+ been mentioned yet?

Yeah, that was a good place.  I feel like after it moved to another location it went downhill.  Maybe Guy's sweaty kiss of death.

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Loved Rita's. My son went to Stratford so we were there often. The move up to Westheimer killed them and even though several other restaurants have been in that center for a long time, there have been a plethora in that end space where Rita's went. None more than a few months.

Pita+ Cafe was Bosnian. Loved that place. Knew the owners Bobo and Omer. Bobo sold out and moved up north. Omer kept it going and expanded into the Galleria area on Richmond. Proved just too much.

Hoe Sai Gai, San Felipe and Post Oak. For my fourteenth or fifteenth birthday, or somewhere around there, my family met there for a BD lunch.There were probably eight to ten of us. We had a big round table with a lazy susan and everyone ordered a dish and shared. We had soup and egg rolls and fried rice and all of the overly sweet dishes that were prevalent then. The check comes and my late uncle says everyone can just give him cash and he'd put it on his card. We're in the parking lot saying goodbyes to each other and the manager and the waiter come running out screaming at us. "Only $2 tip? Why only $2 tip?". We never went back. Almost fifty years later and it's still a family joke. It comes up multiple times a year.

Great memories.

 

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On 1/18/2023 at 7:11 AM, DoobieWah said:

Loved Rita's. My son went to Stratford so we were there often. The move up to Westheimer killed them and even though several other restaurants have been in that center for a long time, there have been a plethora in that end space where Rita's went. None more than a few months.

Pita+ Cafe was Bosnian. Loved that place. Knew the owners Bobo and Omer. Bobo sold out and moved up north. Omer kept it going and expanded into the Galleria area on Richmond. Proved just too much.

Hoe Sai Gai, San Felipe and Post Oak. For my fourteenth or fifteenth birthday, or somewhere around there, my family met there for a BD lunch.There were probably eight to ten of us. We had a big round table with a lazy susan and everyone ordered a dish and shared. We had soup and egg rolls and fried rice and all of the overly sweet dishes that were prevalent then. The check comes and my late uncle says everyone can just give him cash and he'd put it on his card. We're in the parking lot saying goodbyes to each other and the manager and the waiter come running out screaming at us. "Only $2 tip? Why only $2 tip?". We never went back. Almost fifty years later and it's still a family joke. It comes up multiple times a year.

Great memories.

 

Great. Basically all the good restaurants on my side of town closed before I moved out here. 

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Capt Benny's on 290 around 34th. Burned to the ground last Saturday night so I guess it qualifies. 

We made the 20 minute drive every couple of months so my mother could get her fried shrimp fix. 

 

 

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3 hours ago, DoobieWah said:

Capt Benny's on 290 around 34th. Burned to the ground last Saturday night so I guess it qualifies. 

We made the 20 minute drive every couple of months so my mother could get her fried shrimp fix. 

 

 

How’s the location on Main?

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3 hours ago, DoobieWah said:

Capt Benny's on 290 around 34th. Burned to the ground last Saturday night so I guess it qualifies. 

We made the 20 minute drive every couple of months so my mother could get her fried shrimp fix. 

 

 

Captain Tom’s is an offspring of Benny’s and is better. 

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1. Hunan on Post Oak and Orient Express in the Galleria (both owned by the Huang family)- loved their Return of the Phoenix dish, their spin on sesame chicken, which is not duplicated anywhere. Orient Express had the best lunch specials in town and uniquely served salad as an included appetizer with this great soy/miso salad dressing they made.

2. Texas Tumbleweed - steakhouse that closed in the late 80s. Fond memories of going there as a child. Mesquite grilled steaks, great nachos and salads (ranch dressing was incredible). They had a dance floor and live band playing the Cotton Eyed Joe with a mock gun fight between guys dressed up as old school cowboys every few hours.

3. Ta Hua - closed in the 90s. Couldn’t beat their steamed vegetable dumplings and special green hot sauce and scallion pancakes. Dumpling King opened after Ta Hua closed and has the same recipe for dumplings but Ta Hua was a nicer place to go to dinner and their main courses were much better than Dumpling King. 

4. Fuddruckers on Chimney Rock - great memories going there from childhood. Back in the 80s and 90s, their burgers were a cut above the competition and it was a special treat to go there since they had just 1 location in Houston before their original owners sold out and over expanded. The building it was in and patio was very nice. 

5. The old Texadelphia on Westheimer (not the Dunvale location) - it opened around the time I was at UT in the late 90s and was so excited to have a location in Houston to visit when back home. Food was a as good as the original on the Drag.

6. Lalo’s Pizza - another old school place that closed a long time ago in the 80s next to my childhood home in the Fondren Southwest neighborhood. It was a hole in the wall next to a Stop N Go owned by a very nice Argentinian. Remember the pictures of Maradona, Argentina national team and of the country itself plastered all over the walls.  Great pizza. 

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1. Hunan on Post Oak and Orient Express in the Galleria (both owned by the Huang family)- loved their Return of the Phoenix dish, their spin on sesame chicken, which is not duplicated anywhere. Orient Express had the best lunch specials in town and uniquely served salad as an included appetizer with this great soy/miso salad dressing they made.
2. Texas Tumbleweed - steakhouse that closed in the late 80s. Fond memories of going there as a child. Mesquite grilled steaks, great nachos and salads (ranch dressing was incredible). They had a dance floor and live band playing the Cotton Eyed Joe with a mock gun fight between guys dressed up as old school cowboys every few hours.
3. Ta Hua - closed in the 90s. Couldn’t beat their steamed vegetable dumplings and special green hot sauce and scallion pancakes. Dumpling King opened after Ta Hua closed and has the same recipe for dumplings but Ta Hua was a nicer place to go to dinner and their main courses were much better than Dumpling King. 
4. Fuddruckers on Chimney Rock - great memories going there from childhood. Back in the 80s and 90s, their burgers were a cut above the competition and it was a special treat to go there since they had just 1 location in Houston before their original owners sold out and over expanded. The building it was in and patio was very nice. 
5. The old Texadelphia on Westheimer (not the Dunvale location) - it opened around the time I was at UT in the late 90s and was so excited to have a location in Houston to visit when back home. Food was a as good as the original on the Drag.
6. Lalo’s Pizza - another old school place that closed a long time ago in the 80s next to my childhood home in the Fondren Southwest neighborhood. It was a hole in the wall next to a Stop N Go owned by a very nice Argentinian. Remember the pictures of Maradona, Argentina national team and of the country itself plastered all over the walls.  Great pizza. 

Jesus, all those places were family faves back in the day. Especially Ta Hua (fresh ginger in oil with each dumpling was fantastic) and Lalo’s - one of my high school classmate’s family were the owners. Ate there a lot, including with him.
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Ta Hua, holy shit that brings back some memories 😀.

I left Houston 20 years ago but still occasionally miss Mama's Cafe. Huevos Hofbrau on a hungover weekend morning was a fairly regular stop back in the day.

 

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15 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


Jesus, all those places were family faves back in the day. Especially Ta Hua (fresh ginger in oil with each dumpling was fantastic) and Lalo’s - one of my high school classmate’s family were the owners. Ate there a lot, including with him.

If my memory is correct, Lalo’s moved from their hole in the wall location to a bigger space in Westbury Square but didn’t last long in their new space.

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If my memory is correct, Lalo’s moved from their hole in the wall location to a bigger space in Westbury Square but didn’t last long in their new space.

Correct. Rent was a lot cheaper in their little strip mall location, and they shoulda stayed there.
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I loved Down House at 18th and Yale. It was the first really nice restaurant to move to the Heights in 2010’s. We had to fill out a private club card to drink there. Good times.

I remember their hangar steak was really good. Eventually they became known for their brunch, but it was a complete restaurant at its zenith. 
 

Does anybody remember the drive thru Thai place on Long Point and Gessner. Thai Rocha(?) was maybe the name. It would have been open in the 90’s and 2000’s.  It was great. Still the best Thai food I’ve eaten in Houston. 

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20+ years ago when I lived in midtown fresh out of law school, I loved Ponzo's.  Great pizza and pizza rolls.

I also miss Eatzi's off Post Oak and San Felipe.  Love that place.  Have family who live near the one in Dallas.  I make sure to get a sandwich every time I visit.

 

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