Food

In 1947 Lucy Jackson, a self-taught cook decided to own her own restaurant. While working on developing a name for the business, she received some uncommon inspiration from a couple of sources. First, while on a trip to California, she saw a picture of a bee on a large moving sign, and viewing it as a sign, decided to name her restaurant after it.

n 1997, Tony Brooks and his sister Julie opened Coast Café with the help of their father, Major E .
Brooks . Coast Café is located in the Cambridge neighborhood where Tony grew up (the Coast) and
where his father was a dedicated community volunteer .

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Harold E. Sparks, a handsome young man from Hamilton, Ohio leaves the security of a foreman position at Fisher Body, a division of General Motors, and moves to Inglewood, CA to fulfill his dream of opening a soul food restaurant. "The Serving Spoon" ™ The idea of providing excellent food that is not only "Love At First Bite”, but a place where customers feel like family, quickly caught on. “The Spoon”, as often called by many, has served customers ranging from entertainers to politicians to the neighbor next door. All in the spirit of making you feel at home, with food that’s good for the soul. Harold’s daughter and son-in-law now own and operate the family business, and are developing key markets throughout the United States.

Houston’s This Is It Soul Food Restaurant has long served up foods originated from traditional slave and Southern cuisine, including ham hocks, chitterlings, black-eyed peas, smothered pork chops and oxtails. Frank and Mattie Jones, the late grandparents of the current owner, Craig Joseph, opened This Is It in 1959 in a frame house at 1003 Andrews, located in Freedmen’s Town, a predominately African American neighborhood in Fourth Ward.