Lost Restaurants of Fredericksburg
About this ebook
Fredericksburg's heritage of dining hospitality is full of unforgettable corner booths and legendary roadside stands. The Crown Saloon gave pioneer teamsters a welcome chance to wet their whistle, while the Manhattan Cafe brought pickled herring and other delicacies of the 1920s to the Hill Country frontier. At the state's first wine festival, Haversack Winery treated guests to a 2,100 lb. chunk of cheddar cheese along with performances from The Ballet Folklorico España and Pehl's Old Time Band. The Wild Game Dinner raised a healthy chunk of change for worthy Gillespie County causes. Michael Barr lines up a buffet of iconic Fredericksburg eateries that will have readers smelling Noble's brisket through the butcher paper and hearing the sizzle of Oma Koock's Schnitzel.
About the author
Michael Barr is a writer and retired educator living an idyllic though modest life in Fredericksburg, Texas. (Teacher retirement only goes so far.) His books include Rope Burns and Lead Poisoning: The Wild West in Central Texas, Remembering Bulldog Turner, Cloyce Box: 6'4 " and Bulletproof, A Hill Country Christmas: Hope for Hardscrabble Times (contributor) and Hill Country Hindsights: Stories from a Simpler Time. Magazines that have printed his stories include Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Old West Magazine, True West Magazine, Texas Highways Magazin e and Rock and Vine Magazine. His "Hindsights" column appears in the Fredericksburg Standard, the Johnson City Record-Courier and at TexasEscapes.com on a semi-regular basis.
