Year: 2025

Drive-thru salad chain Salad and Go quietly closed one of its Houston-area locations in mid-July. The store is located at 2301 University Blvd, Houston, TX 77005, sits just outside the boundaries of Rice Village, and opened in 2023. A long-standing home, previously converted to business use, was demolished to make way for Salad and Go. The former occupant, Village Greenery, was forced to relocate a few homes away to make this space available. This location …

Food Town opens its newest store today. The location at 12460 Hwy 6, Santa Fe, TX 77510 replaces a briefly vacant Arlan’s Market, which closed in June. The new store will feature an independently owned and operated bakery, according to comments from Food Town. The store is an important step for both the community and Lewis Food Town. The grocery store represents one of two long-standing sites in the area. The site occupied by HEB …

Scooter’s Coffee has been operating in the Houston area since early 2021. The drive-thru only coffee shop was not the first of its kind in Houston, but it was the first in a new wave of similar shops. Dutch Bros. would arrive in Houston a few months after Scooter’s, and 7 Brew wouldn’t make it here until 2023. While the drive-thru coffee market doesn’t seem to be slowing down, it appears that the competition may …

The future Joe V’s parking lot will likely stir up memories of how busy Fry’s used to get on Black Friday, most weekends. Joe V’s Smart Shop will soon open a new location on Houston’s North side. The store wich will be located at 10241 North Fwy, Houston, TX 77037 has yet to receive an official grand opening date, but estimates from HEB put the store on a course to open mid-summer according to Chron.com, and …

National grocery giant Kroger has decided to reunite its Dallas and Houston divisions, in a familiar move for anyone who’s been watching the Texas grocery scene long enough. The Houston and Dallas divisions originally started as separate chains. Henke & Pillot of Houston was purchased by Kroger in 1955, and Wyatt’s of DFW was purchased in 1958. The stores were allowed to operate with a great degree of freedom compared to most other chains Kroger …

According to permits recently filed, Fiesta Mart is working on reconstructing a long-dormant store at 4330 Hwy 6 N, Houston, TX 77084. The store, which flooded during Hurricane Harvey, has been closed since 2017. The location, which opened in 2001, replaced a longtime Gerland’s Food Fair, which initially opened with the shopping center in 1978. During Hurricane Harvey, water from the Addicks Reservoir backed up into the store, ultimately flooding the entire building. Not reopening …

Howdy folks, and welcome back to Houston Historic Retail. Today, we’re visiting a modern-day remnant of Gibson’s Discount Center; Drug Emporium. To explain the connection, we’ll need to start with a bit of history. The first Gibson’s Discount Center opened in 1960 in Abilene, TX. The company’s roots are a bit deeper than that, but this was their entry into the discount department store territory. The stores were a big hit, and founder Herb Gibson …

Houston-based grocer, Food Town, has announced a new location for the first time in many years. The former Arlan’s Market, located at 12460 Hwy 6, Santa Fe, TX 77510, will reopen as a Food Town within the next couple of months. The site this store occupies is one of two grocery stores in the Santa Fe area, and originally started as one of the final Big Chief locations. Arlan’s took over the store and operated …

The Foodarama store located at 5665 Beechnut St, Houston, TX 77096, closed last week. According to HHR reader John Biundo, who informed me about the closure, the store has a closing note dated June 27th. This location, which was initially a Weingarten’s, was Foodarama’s second ever location, opening in 1974. The store, which was featured in a 2022 post on HHR, was listed as available around the time of the post, raising concerns about its future. …

Editor’s Note: The original version of this article incorrectly listed the new grocer as Sprout’s rather than Trader Joe’s. Howdy folks, and welcome back to HHR! Today, we’re checking out the remains of a Randalls killed off in the last round of closings, located at 600 Kingwood Dr, Kingwood, TX 77339. This is actually the second former Randalls in Kingwood we’ve looked at. Before we dive to deep, though, let’s take a look at a …