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Small East Texas eateries earn honorable mention in Texas Monthly
Sandy Randolph came by her love of cooking honestly, but sort of late.
Never really cooking much until she married in her 30s, the owner of Granny’s Home Cooking in Overton made up for lost time by drawing on a legacy of family cooking.
Before love intervened, though, Randolph wasn’t winning any cooking awards.
“I burned Lima beans back then,” she confessed, sitting in the downtown diner she runs with her daughter, Jennifer Lackey. “Everyone used to laugh at me.”
Nobody’s chuckling, now, after Granny (she’s actually is a 53-year-old great-granny), and her restaurant took an honorable mention in Texas Monthly’s 40 Best Small Town Cafe’s, published in the magazine’s December issue.
“We didn’t know that they had come by,” Randolph said. “My aunt called me from San Antonio, is how I knew was in there.”
The magazine sent 39 diner divers on a five-month search for the best chicken fried steaks, desserts, breads and sides in the republic. There weren’t any Northeast Texas eateries in the magazine’s Top 40, proving that taste truly is on the tongue of the be-taster, but Granny’s and Circle Cafe in Kilgore earned two of 19 honorable mentions.
Did the magazine overlook any East Texas eateries that should have been on the list?
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