For many of us, our grandmothers served years of happy food memories that include freshly baked cookies, chicken- fried steak, pot roast, or—in my case—fresh tortillas with calabacita con puerco.
Houston Carpenter fondly remembers his grandmother, Claudine, serving him Southern home cooking. So, when a space opened up in what had been a dilapidated old house on East Grayson Street, he and his wife Emily saw the potential to create yet another new eatery to join their growing restaurant empire, which also includes Little Em’s Oyster Bar, Up Scale, Go Fish Market and Nineteen Hyaku.