Home Cooking? (Austin, Georgetown, Pflugerville: lease, work, schools)

[statefan]

I can find plenty of information on BBQ, Tex-Mex and all the other usual foods in the area. Where do you go when you want some good home cooking? (I want it to be something I do not have to cook!) I do not care about how it looks just what it tastes like! Some good fried chicken, chicken and dumplings, vegetables, biscuits, homemade deserts and sweet tea, that is the kind of place I am looking for. (Please, no Cracker Barrels, Luby's, or Black Eyed Peas)

On another note, how is Louie Mueller's BBQ in Taylor? I recently saw it on Food Network. Just curious. Thanks!!

[txmom]

Dot's Place
15803 Windermere Dr
Pflugerville, TX 78660
(512) 252-9300

Very yummy!

[Trainwreck20]

I can find plenty of information on BBQ, Tex-Mex and all the other usual foods

But that is home cooking! Sweet tea!?! What are you thinking?

[statefan]

Originally Posted by Trainwreck20

But that is home cooking! Sweet tea!?! What are you thinking?

I know, but sometimes I want the kind of food my grand-maw made on Sundays after church. Good ole southern cooking (I'm from NC), cooked in fat and butter, the kind that isn't good for you anymore!!!

[satanoid]

You want some down home southern soul food?

You want hoover's!
Hoover's Cooking & Catering
Hoover's Cooking Online

2002 Manor Rd
Austin, TX 78722
(512) 479-5006

They've now got a north austin location as well.

Threadgill's has gone so far downhill, I can't stomach it any more. Don't waste your time.

[love roses]

Louis Meullers is good. Mikeskas next door is good as well, but not as good as Meullers. And even though it's a sore subject with some, Taylor Cafe, if you google it, gets good reviews as well. Someone from Austin also does a story on the "segregation" subject, and it's actually quite enlightening. I don't think he could do the food review without bringing it up.

[OntheMoveAGAIN]

"Taylor Cafe has two entrances, from the days of segregation, one on either side of the building. Although it is obviously no longer segregated, people still tend to stick to one side or the other. The interior is reminiscent of a fishing shanty, with exposed plywood on the walls. A big central bar is where you order. You don’t come here for the décor, you come because Vincel Mares has been making barbecue here for over fifty years. When he decides to make something special, like a batch of pork sausage, you’d better be in line the first day or two because after that it will be gone."

Taken from this article:
Tour of America: On the Texas Barbecue Trail

[love roses]

There's really not any good home cookin places down here that I'm aware of. There is a really small hole in the wall just outside of Taylor that my husband thought would be kind of fun to check out one day. It actually had good breakfast, but it's attached to a cattle auction site, so mostly local ranchers and farmers frequent it. I have to give a thumbs up for sweet tea. This is article I was speaking of. I just copied and pasted it here. It was first on the list after I googled it. "Situated hard by the railroad tracks, it's a divey little joint with a low ceiling that, in its way, could still exist in the '40s, when owner Vencil Mares opened it. A thick cloud of cigarette smoke hangs in the air, almost defiantly against modern times. There are deer heads on the wall. A display of spurs on a slab of wood is suspended above the beer cooler.

The place is a throwback in other ways, too. The Taylor Cafe, as it is called, has two separate doors, one used by blacks, the other by whites. Two long Formica-topped counters run parallel nearly the length of the establishment. The evening I visited, blacks sat on one side, drinking beer mostly, whites on the other, drinking beer mostly.

No one is required to use a certain door or sit on a specific side of the room. "They just want to stay with their people," is the way Mares puts it.

To some ears, his words may sound racist. They're anything but. When Mares, who is 81 years old, opened the Taylor Cafe in 1948, his decision to allow blacks and whites under the same roof was nothing short of subversive. In the small Southern town of Taylor, segregationist laws prohibited the races from mingling. It wouldn't be until the 1970s that the public schools were desegregated statewide. The railroad tracks divided white from black. Mares opened right next to those tracks, skirting the border between the races, and he let them all inside.

He paid for it, too. The Taylor Cafe, Mares will tell you, witnessed lots of knife fights. But Mares kept the place going." But anyway, enough about that.

I miss good sweet tea.

[mimimomx3]

I'm staying away from the Taylor Cafe subject, literally and figuratively.... they don't need my business, anyway.
For home cooking, I love the Blue Star Cafeteria on Burnet, which isn't a cafeteria but has the most delicious menu. (owned by Eddie Bernal of 34th street and Santa Rita.

[mrsengle]

The Monument Cafe in Georgetown has some fine chicken fried steak. They serve their biscuits with honey, too. It isn't the very best I've ever had (that would be my mother's - I was also raised on that food!), but it's pretty darn good.