Haven’t been to Spanish Village for several years. I love it, wife doesn’t. Still believe they have the best Mexican food in town.
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I really miss the “Golden Bo” on Gessner @ 59. It served “Chinese Food San Francisco Style”. Even better, after 10pm they had a Hong Kong style snack bar with a chef with a wok cooking up what ever you asked for until 2am.
The shopping center let a Hispanic night club open and the shootings started soon after. That killed the Bo’s business.
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Reportedly, they’ve found a new owner for Spanish Village. I hope this is true and that the restaurant survives, because I’ve been eating there my entire life.
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I liked wok bo on Westheimer closest to hwy 6 i think before it went downhill. Liked the fish outside. Don’t remember if i said that previously but there’s a lot of places that kinda just stick with you.
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What was the hamburger joint downtown that served mesquite grilled hamburgers in beef and buffalo?
I just remember the Buffalo burger place on Westpark
Bellaire Broiler Burger just closed too.
Originally the third Houston-area Brittain’s Broiler Burger , this location was designed by Roger Converse and had its grand opening on December 12, 1959. The December 9, 1959 issue of the Bellaire Texan describes C.L. Brittain, the restaurants namesake, as "a native born Texan (Bosque County) who came to Houston in 1945 and entered the drug …
Been going to Spanish Village since '75.
Unfortunately they sold it to someone who has no intentions of reopening the restaurant. They want the land.
The current owners could have at least tried to find someone who would keep the restaurant. Ever since the Medina’s sold the restaurant to these current owners it’s gone down hill. They didn’t really care about their customers the way the Medina’s did. It was just a business.
Another Houston institution is gone.
What a crying shame. Went there for the last time last week.
How about the old Chuckwagon burger joints in the '60’s - that looked like a Stagecoach/Wagon. As I recall, there was one on Long Point Road in Spring Branch and another next to Waltrip H.S. on 34th Street in Oak Forest. I’m pretty sure that there were several other locations as well.
How about Captain Benny’s? He had a couple that looked like shrimp boats and you got raw oysters and other seafood at a long bar.
Le Cafe Royal and Chez Collette at the Hotel Sofitel were awesome.
Jim, my step father-in-law’s family owns Captain Benny’s and they still have several boats in Houston and one in Austin. We sometimes eat at the one on SH 290 (near 34th Street) on the way home from UH BB games.
True story - Benny Heineman formerly shucked oysters at the old Shamrock Hilton Hotel and then the guy that owned the Red Lion restaurant on Main Street (don’t remember his name) told Benny that he would build him a boat there on Main Street. I understand that some early Houston Oiler FB players helped to make it quite a popular place. Early on, my father-in-law (Earl Baker) was Benny’s main oyster supplier and then they later partnered up and built a boat on I-10 near Wirt Road, and later several more boats around town. Benny died ~20 years ago and Earl will be 96 years old this fall.
Earl has told me some very interesting stories about his early life in Houston, being in the Coast Guard down in Puerto Rico, and that he was around the UH campus in the early 1940’s when there were only 3 buildings on campus. He had a part-time job delivering something early in the morning related to technical training of Navy personnel at UH. After the war, he studied architecture at UH back when architecture, science & engineering were all located in the old science building.
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WMC that’s an interesting story. The one I remember I think was on Main St but I could be wrong. They youngsters on here will not understand this but at 82 you remember better what happened when you were 6 better then you do what happened 6 weeks 6 years or 60 years ago.
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I use to go to the Chuckwagon in Baton Rouge that was down the street from where I lived, When I say down the street, I mean a long block away and I would walk there. Talk about times being different, I would walk alone and buy an order my mom would send with me and I was in the 2nd and 3rd grade (1954-55). You could get the Wheel burger (large) Hub burger (small) and Spoke dog (hot dog) for real cheap. They were shaped like a covered wagon and had an orange canvas like top. I found this on line, the one on the left was the one I was talking about on Plank Road.
In the early 90’s my office was in the Hillcroft/59 area. At lunchtime I often went to Andros Deli at Fondren/Westpark. Owned/operated by an older Greek couple. Real nice folks, great sandwiches and specialty foods. The owner would say to me…“hey, there’s Al Pacino”.
Lol at Plank Road - same end with the Krispy Kreme?
As for @coachv Golden Bo I remember that tucked in on that corner and it was a popular spot.
Near Albritton Cafateria - but isn’t king bo in Missouri City a semblance of that one on Gessner?
Not even close. Golden Bo reminded me of Hong Kong more than any other restaurant in Houston. My go to place is split between Fung’s Kitchen and Mein
I don’t think there were any Krispy Kreme donuts in Baton Rouge in 1953-54. At least I don’t remember any, but I was only in the 2nd and 3rd grade. Anyway, it was across the street from Redemptorist.
My aunt and uncle lived on Plank Rd and 3 cousins all went to Redemptorist. Many vacations in BR on Plank Rd.
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