overman138 Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 Anybody remember Burgers by Gourmet? I remember it from when I was young. I think it was located somewhere around St. Thomas. I remember the inside had a counter and might have had some kind of newsprint wallpaper. The burgers were wrapped in brown or orange paper, I think. Just a random musing. Can anyone confirm its location or supply a photo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 There is a long thread here that has some talk about it (link) - here's the picture i posted of an advertisement for the one in the Village: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeybob2 Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Anybody remember Burgers by Gourmet? I remember it from when I was young. I think it was located somewhere around St. Thomas. I remember the inside had a counter and might have had some kind of newsprint wallpaper. The burgers were wrapped in brown or orange paper, I think. Just a random musing. Can anyone confirm its location or supply a photo?The one I used to go to was on the corner of Yoakum and W. Alabama (Southwest corner). I remember the decor as having a lot of yellow but those were the drug days of the early 70's so it might have been newsprint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
memebag Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 There was one down in the underground at Greenway Plaza. I have wonderful memories of running over there during Aeros games to pick up burgers, then taking them back up to the sound booth in the Summit to eat with my dad. I got to go backstage and use all the secret doors because I didn't have a ticket stub. That was a happenin' place in the late 70s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsb320 Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Anybody remember Burgers by Gourmet? I remember it from when I was young. I think it was located somewhere around St. Thomas. I remember the inside had a counter and might have had some kind of newsprint wallpaper. The burgers were wrapped in brown or orange paper, I think. Just a random musing. Can anyone confirm its location or supply a photo?I remember it being where you said, near an equipment rental place (ABC Rentals, I think). It seems like the burger place had brown lattice and a drive-thru.Down the street (Alabama) on the other side of the street was a place called Jenny's Hidaway. It was a converted old house. It later became something else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted May 10, 2008 Share Posted May 10, 2008 We used to go frequently to one on Kirby at University. I think it was where the Chinese restaurant is now. I still remember that Jalapeno Burger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucesw Posted May 11, 2008 Share Posted May 11, 2008 I think there's another thread on Hamburgers by Gourmet here on HAIF. The original one was in what is now the Castle Dental building on Kirby; I first went there in September, 1970, and was blown away. The one on Alabama at Yoakum was one of the last ones and it was still there in the mid-to-late 80s - I went there often when I worked on Lovett, as did many of my co-workers.The last one I think was on Park Place, just east of Reveille.I went to the one in Greenway Plaza just once when I worked there and didn't like it - the patties were precooked to serve the hordes quickly and sometimes dried out and lukewarm by the time the burgers were assembled - at least the one I got the one time I went was and I wasn't turned on the sight of the big pan of pre-cooked patties.My fav was either the cheddar cheese bacon burger or the chili cheese grilled knockwurst burger but their tacos were the best fast food crispy tacos ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Croberts Posted May 11, 2008 Share Posted May 11, 2008 (edited) Anybody remember Burgers by Gourmet? I remember it from when I was young. I think it was located somewhere around St. Thomas. I remember the inside had a counter and might have had some kind of newsprint wallpaper. The burgers were wrapped in brown or orange paper, I think. Just a random musing. Can anyone confirm its location or supply a photo?I remember it and ate there- Yoakum on the south side of alabama. It was a small chain, and this was one of the last ones. I went by there in the 90s and it was gone. Edited May 11, 2008 by Croberts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Absinthe_1900 Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 We used to go frequently to one on Kirby at University. I think it was where the Chinese restaurant is now. I still remember that Jalapeno Burger.It was at Kirby and Tangley. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robhan Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 I went to the University Of St. Thomas in the 90's and enjoyed the wonderful greasy burgers at the location where the UST Chapel of St. Basil is now. Am I wrong or were there other locations in the city? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 That was the 3802 Yoakum location.In the mid-seventies they were also at:-1929 Allen Parkway (in this building)-2910 Hillcroft (Vietnam Coast restaurant now?)-5712 Kirby (Castle Dental)-1318 Louisiana (Benihana)-1011 Milam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsb320 Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 This topic is a duplication of this one http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...showtopic=15752 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbigtex56 Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 This topic is a duplication of this one http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...showtopic=15752Thanks - topics have been merged.Link to parallel thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrfootball Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 Ahh yes. We used to go to the one on FM 1960 in the Target shopping center near Greenwood Forest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachanga Posted June 26, 2008 Share Posted June 26, 2008 (edited) randy yost owned the gourmet hamburger place...there was an article in last weeks houston press about a murder in 1 of his rent houses.... Edited July 10, 2008 by pachanga Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citykid09 Posted June 26, 2008 Share Posted June 26, 2008 I know this is a little of topic, but did Texas or the Houston area ever have White Castle, Harddes, or Ruby Tuesday? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsb320 Posted June 26, 2008 Share Posted June 26, 2008 I know this is a little of topic, but did Texas or the Houston area ever have White Castle, Harddes, or Ruby Tuesday?No White Castles. In the south Krystal is the equivalent, but they're more in southeastern states. I don't ever recall seeing Hardees either in Texas. Ruby's was here though, even recently. There was one (standalone) in a Randall's parking lot in the TMC area. For some reason they tore down the relatively new building and threw up a Chic Filet. I never could figure that out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeybob2 Posted June 26, 2008 Share Posted June 26, 2008 I know this is a little of topic, but did Texas or the Houston area ever have White Castle, Harddes, or Ruby Tuesday?There are a couple of Ruby Tuesdays in the Houston area... Katy, Sugarland, and Willowbrook.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarec Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 They had a breaded and deep-fried burger with cucumbers that was so good....... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasVines Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 No White Castles. In the south Krystal is the equivalent, but they're more in southeastern states. I don't ever recall seeing Hardees either in Texas. Ruby's was here though, even recently. There was one (standalone) in a Randall's parking lot in the TMC area. For some reason they tore down the relatively new building and threw up a Chic Filet. I never could figure that out.There was a Hardees in Nacogdoches in the late 80s early 90s, but it looks like it is gone now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
memebag Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 There was a Hardee's at Memorial City in the 70s. It was exotic, and didn't last very long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
headrush77 Posted August 31, 2010 Share Posted August 31, 2010 About 2000, Hamburgers by Gourmet was opened for about a year on Park Place BLVD. Mr. Yost was thinking about moving the restaurant to Clear Lake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houstonmacbro Posted September 3, 2010 Share Posted September 3, 2010 I think there was also one at South Post Oak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tcpIV Posted September 23, 2010 Share Posted September 23, 2010 Hamburgers by Gourmet was at the Corner of Yoakum and W. Alabama. It split the property where the Chapel of St. Basil now sits. It faced Yoakum with a drive-thru wrapping around the W. Alabama side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaryLG Posted September 18, 2012 Share Posted September 18, 2012 I well remember the H by G on Kirby between WestU and Bissonette from 1970ish. They must have spent a fortune on antique candlestick table phones. They also met the dawn of drivethroughs head on.That burger sauce was awesome. Never tasted anything like it anywhere else until... I assdentally recreated it around 2004. Half ketchup, half Kraft hickory smoke sauce. I had added a dollop of of the hickory BBQ sauce to a McD DblCheese with ketchup. Voila! McD by Gourmet! I keep a bottle premixed at the house now.Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Parsons Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 I used to work at the one on Hillcroft, between Westheimer and Richmond when I was in high school back in 1972. I miss it! I found a old baggie with a few books of their matches in an old back pack recently, and stashed them away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArchFan Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 I have fond memories of their Austin location, in the basement of a building on the drag (Guadalupe St) across from the UT architecture building. The chain in general reminded me of Hamburget Hamlet in LA, which had menu consisting mostly of hamburgers with many different topping options.  I don't recall when the Austin location folded, but I think the building was later taken over by the Church of Scientology. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTiger Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 There was a Hamburgers by Gourmet in College Station, too, but I forgot where. It was in the 1980s, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad L. Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 My car club used to meet at the one at 4715 Westheimer.  I still have an old newsletter from January, 1985 showing the address.  The building is long gone and had been replaced by a strip center. The Grotto Ristorante occupies the approximate space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRUCEW Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 I worked at the one Westeimer, Hillcroft and Kirby. Would like to know what happened to Randy Jones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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