Texas

Some Texas diners hand down more than recipes. They pass along the keys, the grill, and the habit…

By Marco Rinaldi · Oct 27

Some Houston diners pretend to be old. One of them actually is, and it has the long weekend…

By Marco Rinaldi · Oct 27

Some Austin habits never change, no matter how many cranes rise over the skyline. Plenty of locals still…

By Marco Rinaldi · Oct 26

In a lot of small Texas towns, Sunday lunch has its own schedule. Church lets out, the trucks…

By Marco Rinaldi · Oct 26

From the curb, the building on this downtown Waco block looks like it has nothing to hide. Then…

By Marco Rinaldi · Oct 26

Some of the best meals in Texas are served under ceilings that have seen more than a century…

By Marco Rinaldi · Oct 26

Some of the best fried chicken in West Texas does not come from a big chain or a…

By Marco Rinaldi · Oct 26

Some Texas towns are known for a courthouse. Lockhart is known for a line. On weekends, folks from…

By Marco Rinaldi · Oct 26

Truck stops in Texas are not just places to buy gas and stretch your legs. Some of them…

By Marco Rinaldi · Oct 25

Some towns change their storefronts every few years. Gonzales, Texas, a place famous for its role in Texas…

By Marco Rinaldi · Oct 25

Some burger stops chase trends, and some just keep the grill going for decades. On the north side…

By Marco Rinaldi · Oct 25

Up in the Texas Panhandle, north of Amarillo, there is a small-town restaurant where grandparents bring grandkids to…

By Marco Rinaldi · Oct 25

Some of the best meals in Texas are served in towns so small the speed limit sign and…

By Marco Rinaldi · Oct 25

Some restaurants open and close before anyone learns their name. This one has been feeding Huntsville since 1936,…

By Marco Rinaldi · Oct 25

Some Texas cafes run on more than coffee and gravy. They run on regulars, the folks who walk…

By Marco Rinaldi · Oct 24

Some couples in Fort Worth have been eating at the same diner for more than ten years, and…

By Marco Rinaldi · Oct 24

Some Hill Country drives start with a destination and end up planned around breakfast. Pie in Marble Falls,…

By Marco Rinaldi · Oct 24

Some Houston breakfast spots come and go faster than a coffee refill, but one counter on Westheimer has…

By Marco Rinaldi · Oct 24

Somewhere between Dallas and Austin, a small Texas town has been quietly winning the pastry game for decades.…

By Marco Rinaldi · Oct 24

Somewhere south of Dallas, cars line up at dusk, tune their radios to a special station, and wait…

By Marco Rinaldi · Oct 24

Friday night in a small Texas town has its own rhythm, and a lot of it comes down…

By Marco Rinaldi · Oct 23

Some Austin mornings start with a line on the sidewalk, and nobody seems to mind. People wait for…

By Marco Rinaldi · Oct 23

Plenty of drivers on US-281 have zoomed past a certain roadside stop north of Hamilton for years, promising…

By Marco Rinaldi · Oct 23

You pay for your chicken fried steak, reach for your wallet, and there it is. A glass case…

By Marco Rinaldi · Oct 23

Some towns keep their history in museums. Decatur, Texas, keeps a good chunk of it right beside the…

By Marco Rinaldi · Oct 23

Some East Texas restaurants chase trends, and some just keep the grill going from sunrise until late at…

By Marco Rinaldi · Oct 23

In a lot of Texas county seats, the real news of the day does not start in the…

By Marco Rinaldi · Oct 22

A woman grew up a couple of blocks from a little barbacoa shop on San Antonio’s south side…

By Marco Rinaldi · Oct 22

Some towns are known for a river, a bridge, or a famous lake. Marble Falls, Texas, has all…

By Marco Rinaldi · Oct 22

Out in West Texas, the best meals often come with a view of a parking lot full of…

By Marco Rinaldi · Oct 22

Some towns keep their history in museums, and Rosenberg keeps a piece of it behind a fountain counter.…

By Marco Rinaldi · Oct 22

Highways moved, chain restaurants popped up on every corner, and whole neighborhoods changed around them, yet these Texas…

By Marco Rinaldi · Oct 22

A few miles outside Fredericksburg, a barn-style dining room sits next to a pasture where longhorns hang out…

By Marco Rinaldi · Oct 21

Some people drive 160 miles for a meal and call it a fair trade. Others drive 320 and…

By Marco Rinaldi · Oct 21

Some people plan their whole weekend around one meal, and in Plano, that meal often involves a plate…

By Marco Rinaldi · Oct 21

Some of the best chili dogs in Texas come from places that were serving them long before smartphones,…

By Marco Rinaldi · Oct 21

Some restaurants get found on a map, and others get found through a friend who simply insists. This…

By Marco Rinaldi · Oct 21

Some steakhouses chase trends, and some just keep doing the classics right. Downtown McKinney has one of the…

By Marco Rinaldi · Oct 21

Some breakfast spots chase trends, and some just keep doing what they have done since the 1940s. In…

By Marco Rinaldi · Oct 20