Browsing: Jake’s Texas Tea House

After reading about Jake’s Texas Tea House in our Welcome Back issue, I was excited to try it out. This weekend I did just that.

I walked in and loved the ambiance. It had a ’50s feel to it with aqua and red and white booths, vintage Americana décor and the catchy old music everyone loves at a sock hop.

A rusted BF Goodrich sign, the front-end of a ’56 Ford Fairlane and an old-fashioned Texaco gas pump. To anyone who hasn’t eaten at Jake’s Texas Tea House on Sixth St. and Austin Ave., you would think the downtown restaurant is a stand-in for a mid-century filling station.