From New Jersey to California, and ice cream parlors to hotdog stands, these historic establishments have contributed to the American food scene for a century.
One of Houston’s oldest continuously-operating restaurants is turning a century old in the Heights this year. And as the calendar has flipped to 2023, it is still going strong.
The Best International Coffee Houses in Houston
Experience the cult of coffee around the world with a cup of java at these 12 local spots.
Humans have been getting their daily coffee fix for longer than most people realize. This year the oldest-operating coffeehouse in the world, Caffè Florian in Venice, is celebrating its 300th anniversary, and even Starbucks will turn 50 in 2021.
When H-town’s first Starbucks opened its doors in 1994 in Highland Village, coffeeshops were around. After all, the Yale Street Grill had been serving up cups of Joe with scrambled eggs since 1923, you could always snag a coffee to go with your danish from Three Brothers Bakery, and Café Artiste had been packed with people ordering up pour-overs and paging through the books on the (now departed) Montrose joint’s shelves since it opened in the early 1990s. But Houstonians weren’t necessarily immersed in the wider world of coffee consumption, in the latte, the espresso, and the other then-exotic