Note I am not talking about the best restaurants, just ones with a history. This is just a start. Admittedly Houstonites will have to supplement. Don't give me relatively new places like Franklin's or the like. You have to been around quite a number of decades to be historic. I know there are a lot of great places lost to time, but let's stay with the ones still open. Also let's not do restaurants in famous hotels. I know the restaurant in the Adolphus or the Driskell may be historic, but let's do stand alone restaurants.
Brownwood:
Underwood's Cafeteria
Dallas:
Campisi's Jack Ruby ate there the night before the assassination.The first hint that Tom Landry might be out with the Cowboys was media spotting Jerry Jones eating dinner with Jimmy Johnson there and put 2 + 2 together.
Sonny Bryan's
Dairy-ette
Tolbert's chili
El Fenix a legend
Cafe Pacific
Celebration
Keller's Drive in
Tupinambra Cafe oldest family owned Mexican restaurant in Texas
Fort Worth:
Angelo's
Fred's
Original Mexican Eats Cafe
Joe T. Garcia's historic Mexican food
Cattleman's Steakhouse
Kincaid's Grocery Long hailed as best hamburger in Texas
Ol' South Pancake House pancakes
Paris Coffee Shop Smith family for 85 years
Austin:
Scholz Garten (also known as Scholz Beer Garden) Established 1866.
Dirty Martin's Place 1926. DH Special OT Special
Texas Chili Parlor Lee Harvey Oswald's daughter was a waitress for years.
Matt's Tex-Mex
Jeffrey's
Fonda San Miguel
Top Notch
Hoffbrau Steakhouse
Nau's Pharmacy
Driftwood:
The Salt Lick BBQ
Amarillo
Big Texan Steak Ranch huuuuge steaks.
San Antonio:
Casa Rio
Mi Tierra
Lulu's Bakery and Cafe yum, cinnamon rolls
Marble Falls:
Blue Bonnet Cafe home cooking
Elgin:
Southside BBQ
Grune:
The Grist Mill
Galveston:
Gaido's great crab
Strawn:
Mary's Cafe
Brownsville:
Vermilions
Hico:
Koffee Kup
Lampasas:
Storm's Elvis favorite when in the army.
Lockhart:
Black's
Kreuz Market
Smitty's
Houston:
Langford's Grocery
Brenner's Steakhouse
Salado:
Stagecoach Inn May violate no hotel rule, but mostly a restaurant now.
Thurber:
Smokestack Restaurant
Zabcikville:
Green's Sausage House (three generations of the Green family)
Brownwood:
Underwood's Cafeteria
Dallas:
Campisi's Jack Ruby ate there the night before the assassination.
Sonny Bryan's
Dairy-ette
Tolbert's chili
El Fenix a legend
Cafe Pacific
Celebration
Keller's Drive in
Tupinambra Cafe oldest family owned Mexican restaurant in Texas
Fort Worth:
Angelo's
Fred's
Original Mexican Eats Cafe
Joe T. Garcia's historic Mexican food
Cattleman's Steakhouse
Kincaid's Grocery Long hailed as best hamburger in Texas
Ol' South Pancake House pancakes
Paris Coffee Shop Smith family for 85 years
Austin:
Scholz Garten (also known as Scholz Beer Garden) Established 1866.
Dirty Martin's Place 1926. DH Special OT Special
Texas Chili Parlor Lee Harvey Oswald's daughter was a waitress for years.
Matt's Tex-Mex
Jeffrey's
Fonda San Miguel
Top Notch
Hoffbrau Steakhouse
Nau's Pharmacy
Driftwood:
The Salt Lick BBQ
Amarillo
Big Texan Steak Ranch huuuuge steaks.
San Antonio:
Casa Rio
Mi Tierra
Marble Falls:
Blue Bonnet Cafe home cooking
Elgin:
Southside BBQ
Grune:
The Grist Mill
Galveston:
Gaido's great crab
Strawn:
Mary's Cafe
Brownsville:
Vermilions
Hico:
Koffee Kup
Lampasas:
Storm's Elvis favorite when in the army.
Lockhart:
Black's
Kreuz Market
Smitty's
Houston:
Langford's Grocery
Brenner's Steakhouse
Salado:
Stagecoach Inn May violate no hotel rule, but mostly a restaurant now.
Thurber:
Smokestack Restaurant
Zabcikville:
Green's Sausage House (three generations of the Green family)
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