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11 things about Grace's

1. My grandmother taught all of her family about good food, but more importantly, she instilled hospitality and something even more than that, she taught us to cook from the heart.

2. Grace was the best cook that I have ever known, and I have been fortunate enough to have met a lot of great chefs, but my grandmother was magical in the kitchen.

3. After describing the Sunday meal, you can see that she was 100% Sicilian, but when you add the roast and the fried chicken, you can also see that she was proud to be an American.

4. She would also have baked eggplant, stuffed artichokes, a good green salad, and to top it all off, she always had a pork roast or fried chicken.

5. Ha! If it wasn't for Grace, we Houstonians would have never had the opportunity to have eaten at restaurants like Nino's, Vincent's, Tony Mandola's, Damian's, or Carrabba's.

6. Welcome to Grace's! This restaurant is dedicated to my late grandmother, Grace Mandola.

7. Not only was she great with Italian food, she was also very good with American food.

8. She would bake bread on Saturdays and start her tomato sauce, "Suga," in the wee hours of the morning.

9. My grandmother was a strong, amazing woman who worked well into her nineties.

10. And guess what? She was raised by Sicilian immigrants that happened to settle in Louisiana.

11. the best of three worlds, Italian, American, and Louisiana.