[x-posted to houston.eats and rec.food.cooking]

"MareCat" > wrote in message
...
> On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 13:48:13 GMT, "Gregory Morrow"
> > wrote:
>
> >
> >RFC is owned by Landry's, a Texas outfit. One of their other "concept"
> >eateries is the GAWDAWFUL Joe's Crab Shack, where I had the worst resto
meal
> >of my life last summer (I posted my www.chowhound.com review of it here,
> >google it if interested). Their Chicago location is now closed ("GOOD
> >riddance to BAD rubbish!"), the space replaced by another resto.
> >
> >Even Landry's corny site sux - BIG time:
> >
> >http://www.landrysrestaurants.com/home.htm
>
> The Houston area is *flooded* with Landry restaurants. They're
> literally everywhere--gazillions of them. The houston.eats ng
> frequently refers to the Kemah Boardwalk as "Fertittaville" (named
> after Tilman Fertitta, the owner of the Landry enterprise), because
> just about every restaurant there is owned by Fertitta.
>
> And he's snatching up more and more places everyday...
>

I'm surprised that our esteemed "Professor" von Roach has not "weighed" (or
should it be "inveighled") in on the subject...or has he...???

:-)

--
Best
Greg