The Original Ninfa’s on Navigation and the tacos al carbon that went national
Ninfa Laurenzo opened a ten-table restaurant beside her tortilla factory in 1973. Her tacos al carbon helped make fajitas famous.
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James Coney Island has been selling hot dogs in Houston since 1923
Greek immigrant brothers James and Tom Papadakis opened James Coney Island downtown in 1923. The chain is a Houston institution.
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Shipley Do-Nuts started on a Houston street corner in 1936
Lawrence Shipley Sr. began selling doughnuts in Houston in 1936. The family business grew into a chain of hundreds of stores.
