A Smart Move

A well-known and busy location convenient to a long-standing and loyal clientele would be the dream of most restaurant owners. But cousins Mike and Morris Salerno are not most restaurant owners. They decided to move.

“We had been in our old building for 33 years. It was...

Driving through Elgin a few years ago, Mickie Spencer stumbled upon a time capsule. When the doors of Jones Drug Store locked for the last time in 1975, inside were the accumulated artifacts of a business which had served the small Hill Country town since the 1920s. Mickie didn’t yet have a home for it yet,...

Houston’s Raven Grill

Although Cheers ran its final episode in 1993, there’s still a place “where everybody knows your name.” In the Upper Kirby area of Houston, The Raven Grill has been serving neighbors and creating relationships for just over 20 years. The Raven is located just southwest of downtown, in the prime wedge formed by Main...

Jack Ryan’s Steak and Chophouse

When brothers Brad and Wes Ebey decided to roll the dice on an untested restaurant concept in East Texas, they couldn’t have chosen a more inspiring location than historic downtown Kilgore. Just across the tracks is where wildcatter C. M. “Dad” Joiner, undeterred by naysayers, struck black gold in 1930 with...