Guy Fieri’s like the Pied Piper of Hamburger; wherever his fluffy head travels, people follow, saucer-eyed and drooling, visions of grease traps and checkered wax paper dancing in their heads. And Lankford’s ramshackle old mom-and-pop grocery—or rather, its vintage Coca-Cola sign—would be just the thing to send “Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives” scouts into a tizzy. Its garage full of Texas memorabilia could’ve been conceived by a production team, and the regular cast of old men who seem to all know… [More]

It’s hard not to perk up when you hear that Chinese families have followed the career of a certain restaurant family for about 25 years. Such is the case with our longtime favorite Shanghai, whose owners have won and kept fans as they traversed Bellaire Chinatown in a series of small and larger operations. Having finally settled into the Welcome Supermarket center as Shanghai, they consistently serve the best, most down-to-earth Cantonese cuisine in the city. (Amusingly, it’s not the… [More]