Good Dog Houston in the Heights. Courtesy photo.
In a bittersweet announcement on social media, Good Dog Houston owners Daniel Caballero and Amalia Pferd said they are closing their business at 903 Studewood in the Heights after a 15-year run. The last day of service is this Sunday, April 27. The restaurant is known for its high-quality gourmet hot dogs and array of craft beers. Even the condiments were made from scratch. Surprisingly, it was also regarded as having some of the best fish and chips and Texas-style chili around.
Good Dog Houston has had its share of periodic drama and difficulties. It started as a food truck named Good Dog Hot Dogs in 2010 when a business owner in Colorado contacted them and claimed he owned the name. Pferd and Caballero had just gotten their food truck painted with their new logo, so the discovery led to an expensive rebranding to Good Dog Houston.
In November 2013, they opened their first brick-and-mortar in the Heights, and it was successful enough that they expanded with a second location in Montrose three years later. That location proved much shorter-lived, and it closed after four years in 2020, one of the hardest years in history for restaurants due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Since then, it’s been a bumpy ride for the Heights location, too, helped not at all by the multiple destructive storms Houston’s endured since 2021 and the occasional break-in. The restaurant was even robbed at gunpoint in 2022.
Despite it all, the owners are saying goodbye with gratitude, posting on Facebook. “Though we’re closing this chapter, the memories and relationships built over these 15 years will stay with us forever. Thank you, Houston—for believing in us, supporting us, and allowing us to live out this dream. We hope to see as many of you as we can before we close. Come say goodbye, share a story, or just let us serve you one more time.”
You can read the entirety of the farewell message in the Facebook post below.
Phaedra Cook has written about Houston’s restaurant and bar scene since 2010. She was a regular contributor to My Table magazine (now closed) and was the lead restaurant critic for the Houston Press for two years, eventually being promoted to food editor. Cook founded Houston Food Finder in November 2016 and has been its editor and publisher ever since.
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