Credit: photo by John Anderson

For more than 15 years, East Austin native son and fifth-generation Texan Hoover Alexander has been packing them into his restaurant with taste-tempting renditions of classic Southern comfort food, complemented here and there with a dash of Tex-Mex, a whiff of barbecue smoke, and a pinch of Cajun/Creole spice. – Virginia B. Wood

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