Grocery Store
H-E-Bs in HEB can be confusing. Yes, the triple suburbs of Hurst, Euless, and Bedford are often known as simply “HEB.” But the acronym is tossed around in multiple ways, with only context clues revealing which HEB to which one might be referring. Such as HEB — Hurst-Euless-Bedford Independent School District. Or HEB — Texas…
If you’ve been to a Dallas City Council meeting in the past year, you’ve heard Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Carolyn King Arnold talk about the food desert in southern Dallas. You’ve heard her say that she has to take dignitaries to the International House of Pancakes for business meetings. You’ve heard her say that the…
I was practically heartbroken when I realized that I got the date for H-E-B Plano’s ribbon cutting wrong. I read November 2nd in the first paragraph and went my merry way thinking that was the ribbon cutting and dreaming of skipping through the aisles of H-E-B Plano — my H-E-B. But the store opened yesterday…
Highland Park Village Tom Thumb It’s been rumored for weeks, but today it was made official: Tom Thumb will close its charming Highland Park Village grocery store at Preston and Mockingbird in the next 12 months. The reason? The store is small and outmoded by today’s mega-supermarket standards, and there is plenty of room for expansion.…
If I had a dollar for every time I have said, what Uptown needs is a decent grocery store, I’d be able to buy Tim Heddington’s condo over at the Ritz. Well now it’s happened: last night I got a press release from my darling friend Karen Lukin telling the world that the Austin-based grocer…
