{"id":398669,"date":"2025-11-23T07:42:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T07:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/398669\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T07:42:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T07:42:19","slug":"lankfords-grocery-opening-in-woodlands-more-houston-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/398669\/","title":{"rendered":"Lankford&#8217;s Grocery opening in Woodlands &#038; more Houston news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note: <\/strong>It&#8217;s time to catch up on the top Houston news of the week, starting with a burger opening and service switcheroo. Plus, where to gobble up Thanksgiving-inspired sandwiches. Get the details on our most popular stories below, then visit <a href=\"https:\/\/houston.culturemap.com\/news\/entertainment\/best-weekend-events-november-20\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this guide<\/a> to plan your weekend.<\/p>\n<p>1. <a href=\"https:\/\/houston.culturemap.com\/news\/restaurants-bars\/lankfords-restaurant-woodlands-location\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Historic Houston burger joint serves up new Woodlands location<\/strong><\/a>. Grim Burgers and tater tots are coming to The Woodlands. Lankford\u2019s, the beloved Houston burger joint with locations in Midtown and <a href=\"https:\/\/houston.culturemap.com\/news\/restaurants-bars\/lankfords-bellaire-burger-restaurant-opening-date-1\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Bellaire<\/a>, will arrive in The Woodlands next year.<\/p>\n<p>2. <a href=\"https:\/\/houston.culturemap.com\/news\/restaurants-bars\/travelers-cart-restaurant-full-service\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Street food-inspired Houston restaurant swaps counter service for servers<\/strong><\/a>. A globally-inspired Houston restaurant has made a big change to its service model. Traveler\u2019s Cart switched from counter service to full service as of November 17.<\/p>\n<p>3. <a href=\"https:\/\/houston.culturemap.com\/news\/restaurants-bars\/book-texas-bbq-low-slow\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>12 Houston barbecue joints profiled in Texas author&#8217;s beautiful new book<\/strong><\/a>. Austin-based food and travel writer Veronica Meewes has released a 512-page book, Texas BBQ: The Art of Low and Slow, covering the who&#8217;s who in Texas &#8216;cue. <\/p>\n<p class=\"shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image image-crop-custom image-crop-4x3\">        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"77c06\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"47324a7dc994018347f5a92d23b0478e\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763883739_493_texas-bbq-the-art-of-low-and-slow.jpg\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"Texas BBQ: The Art of Low and Slow\"\/>        This hefty book highlights the historical connections that make Texas Barbecue so interconnected.                    Photo by Brianna Caleri                <\/p>\n<p>4. <a href=\"https:\/\/houston.culturemap.com\/news\/restaurants-bars\/lees-bar-rice-village-pizza\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Veteran Houston chefs fire up new pizzas at Rice Village cocktail bar<\/strong><\/a>. One of Houston\u2019s foremost pizza experts is once again slinging pies. Lee\u2019s, the companion cocktail bar to Rice Village restaurant Milton\u2019s, is now serving pizzas created by chef Seth Siegel-Gardner.<\/p>\n<p>5. <a href=\"https:\/\/houston.culturemap.com\/news\/restaurants-bars\/thanksgiving-sandwiches-houston-restaurants\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>8 Houston restaurants serving comforting Thanksgiving sandwiches<\/strong><\/a>. These Houston restaurants understand that sometimes all anyone wants are the flavors of Turkey Day sandwiched between two slices of bread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Editor&#8217;s note: It&#8217;s time to catch up on the top Houston news of the week, starting with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":398670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[18719,1022,17925,4345,5432,20335,10084,16564,358,44599,52,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-398669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-bbq","9":"tag-books","10":"tag-burgers","11":"tag-houston","12":"tag-houston-news","13":"tag-most-popular-stories","14":"tag-openings","15":"tag-pizza","16":"tag-texas","17":"tag-thanksgiving","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115597891529771816","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}