Texas

Some restaurants chase trends. Others just keep the coffee hot and the counter stools spinning, decade after decade,…

By Marco Rinaldi · Aug 20

There is a chunk of pink granite in central Texas so large it stops cars in their tracks…

By Marco Rinaldi · Aug 20

There is a downtown storefront in West Texas where old-fashioned candy jars sit near high-end cookware, and where…

By Marco Rinaldi · Aug 20

Texas is full of small towns where the best morning stop is a bakery counter, not a drive-thru.…

By Marco Rinaldi · Aug 19

There is something honest about a Texas cafeteria tray. You slide it along the line, point at what…

By Marco Rinaldi · Aug 19

Texas takes its beef seriously, and a handful of steakhouses across the state have been doing it right…

By Marco Rinaldi · Aug 19

There’s a wooden building in central Texas where the floorboards creak with more than a hundred years of…

By Marco Rinaldi · Aug 19

Texas has miles of coastline, and where there is coastline, there are blue crabs. Along the Gulf, a…

By Marco Rinaldi · Aug 19

Some folks will happily point their car down a country highway just for a single slice of pie,…

By Marco Rinaldi · Aug 18

El Paso hides a dining spot where an old motel building doubles as a stage and the pasta…

By Marco Rinaldi · Aug 18

Chicken fried steak is practically a way of life in Texas, and the best plates are rarely found…

By Marco Rinaldi · Aug 18

Kolaches are a Texas breakfast tradition, and the best ones almost always turn up in small towns you…

By Marco Rinaldi · Aug 18

Texas takes brisket seriously, and some of the best smoked meat in the state comes from tiny towns…

By Marco Rinaldi · Aug 18

Texas has a deep Czech heritage, and nowhere is that clearer than in its small-town bakeries. Kolaches, those…

By Marco Rinaldi · Aug 18

Chicken-fried steak is about as Texan as boots and big skies, and some of the best plates in…

By Marco Rinaldi · Aug 17

Texas takes its smoked sausage seriously, and some of the best links you will ever eat come from…

By Marco Rinaldi · Aug 17

Texas barbecue is a serious business, and the best brisket often comes from towns you might drive right…

By Marco Rinaldi · Aug 17

Some road trips have a required pit stop, the kind drivers plan their whole route around. Along Interstate…

By Marco Rinaldi · Aug 17

Some spots in Central Texas reward a short walk with wide slabs of limestone where a river spills…

By Marco Rinaldi · Aug 17

There is a small shop in Fredericksburg where the line forms before the doors even open, and the…

By Marco Rinaldi · Aug 17

About an hour west of Fort Worth sits a lake that stays calm because motorboats never churn it…

By Marco Rinaldi · Aug 16

Some places make you check your watch and realize three hours vanished without warning. There is a spot…

By Marco Rinaldi · Aug 16

Some people set alarms for 4 a.m. on a Saturday just to sit in a lawn chair on…

By Marco Rinaldi · Aug 16

Texas takes its barbecue seriously, and some of the best pits are not in the big cities at…

By Marco Rinaldi · Aug 16

Some Texas towns beg you to slow down, and Wimberley is one of them. Sitting in the heart…

By Marco Rinaldi · Aug 16

Somewhere in central Texas sits a diner that never leaves the station, yet it carries you straight back…

By Marco Rinaldi · Aug 16

Some places make you slow down the moment you arrive, and this riverside retreat in the Texas Hill…

By Marco Rinaldi · Aug 15

A single roadside sign along a stretch of South Texas highway has been quietly luring drivers off their…

By Marco Rinaldi · Aug 15

Tucked into the tall pines of East Texas sits a park where a clear, spring-fed lake sits at…

By Marco Rinaldi · Aug 15

Some of the best food in San Antonio hides behind a modest storefront that you might drive past…

By Marco Rinaldi · Aug 15

Some restaurants talk about fresh fish. This one has its own boats pulling up to the dock and…

By Marco Rinaldi · Aug 15

Texas summers get hot fast, and finding cool, clear water can make all the difference. Lucky for us,…

By Marco Rinaldi · Aug 15

In Texas, the breakfast taco is not just food, it is a morning ritual. Folks roll out of…

By Marco Rinaldi · Aug 14

Some road trips end with a snack. This one ends with a snow crab cluster in one hand…

By Marco Rinaldi · Aug 14

Long before barbecue became a weekend hobby, German and Czech settlers in Central Texas opened meat markets that…

By Marco Rinaldi · Aug 14

Some of the best meals in Texas hide behind plain doors and simple signs, where the cooking gets…

By Marco Rinaldi · Aug 14

Some folks think nothing of clocking 320 miles round-trip just for lunch. That is the kind of pull…

By Marco Rinaldi · Aug 14

Some road trips end at a beach or a big city. This one ends at a tiny Texas…

By Marco Rinaldi · Aug 14

Long stretches of quiet Texas road lead somewhere unexpected: a working ranch where a converted hay barn turned…

By Marco Rinaldi · Aug 13