H-E-B Lockhart (Lockhart, Texas)

Google Maps Street View, with some of the more glaring watermarks crudely edited out.
This is probably going to be the last Lockhart entry before the old page gets rewritten as "Lockhart McDonald's". It concerns the Lockhart H-E-B (#445) at 403 South Colorado Street. It's the only full-line supermarket in the Lockhart area. The much more modern store at 45,000 square feet was originally opened in 1997. Prior to this a much smaller H-E-B faced east on the same lot (about 25k square feet, sharing the building with another tenant). While they were closed, they apparently temporarily occupied the space of Super S Foods at 1220 S. Colorado Street.

Anyway, I've added the oldest Street View which I believe represents the store from 1997, by 2009 the awnings had been repainted a rusty red color, and more recently (in the early 2020s) the physical footprint of the store was expanded when it added a Curbside department.

Plum Creek Plaza (Lockhart, Texas)

As I'm trying to phase out other pages quickly, this is only from Realnex.
Plum Creek Plaza (1710 S. Colorado Street) is a small strip center in Lockhart, Texas that is signal-controlled to the former Wal-Mart across the street (now government offices) and US-183. It's an unremarkable brick shopping center built in the mid-1980s (until it was painted white at some point between 2019 and 2020) and as of 2022 contains Security Finance (suite 101), PAM Health Rehabilitation Clinic of Lockhart (suite 102, formerly the home of Hibbett Sports in the late 2010s), Anytime Fitness (ste. 105), Beauty Nails & Hair (ste. 106), China Palace (ste. 107), Factory Connection (ste. 112, since closed), and Guadalajara Mexican Restaurant (ste. 114).

UPDATE 08-13-2026: Removed mention of the gas station and the old Jack in the Box as it is on this page now, also updated the tags.

Kreuz Market (Lockhart, Texas)

Kreuz Market as seen from the road on Google Street View.
The ongoing dismantling of the Lockhart page has reached Kreuz Market, one of Lockhart's famous barbecue restaurants (619 N. Colorado Street). Kreuz Market has been part of Lockhart for over a century and its current building opened in 1999 looks like a modern, tourist-friendly location, looking more like a Rudy's rather than a "real" barbecue joint. The new location opened with much fanfare, notably with the publicity stunt of physically dragging a bucket of the hot coals of the old location to the new location.

When I first visited it in the late 2000s (shortly after a railroad overpass was built, cutting off direct access from US-183), it famously bragged that unlike most barbecue joints, it had no sauce and no forks...which was, okay I guess. On the forks issue, sure they didn't have forks when they started way back when but they didn't have proper sanitation either, so it's a bit of a wash. But forks are necessary when eating. You can't do it with plastic knives and spoons (which were provided, no metal utensils). The sauce? You could make, say, a great hamburger or French fries without any condiments, but to say that there's no sauce implies that your food is that good. Spoiler alert: it wasn't.

In the end, Kreuz Market did change its long-standing policy. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not. On one hand, it was poorly implemented and quite pretentious, on the other hand, it did give it a bit of uniqueness.

They mention the Bryan location and its decision to have no sauce or forks (before reversing the position), and while I did have a mention of it on Carbon-izer at one time, it will be (hopefully) soon revived for an all-new post at Brazos Buildings & Businesses.

Lockhart Chisholm Trail BBQ (Lockhart, Texas)

Google picture from Adrian Neubauer from 2016
One of the things that I wanted to do when I ported this over from Various Lockhart Businesses was to explain that since I last visited in the last 2010s (or even early 2020s) that Chisholm Trail has revamped the inside of its building, going from an old-fashioned local joint that felt from another era (since 1978), to a modern overhyped barbecue joint. And overhyped it might be, even in the "humble" era, when the Austin edition of Fearless Critics savagely ripped apart a bunch of restaurants, Chisholm Trail was not spared either, ranking quite poorly. While it wasn't entirely a hit piece (the sides are indeed weak), they didn't even mention the homemade bread Chisholm Trail often has available (not sure how "homemade" it is but it at least is different), as I ate here about once a year for about a decade (2009-2021, roughly). I know white bread is "classic" for barbecue but the bread they have is good too. I unfortunately don't have any Chisholm Trail pictures myself so I had to dig around in Google Maps for some of the older ones and some newer ones for comparison. The two following are about the same view from Danny Anderson (new style) and George Vandervort (old look until the early 2020s), respectively. I like the older one better.

UPDATE 07-02-2026: I neglected to mention the address...1323 South Colorado Street.

Lockhart Family Dollar (Lockhart, Texas)

Google Maps Street View, 2022
Family Dollar opened a new store in Lockhart at 1118 S. Colorado Street in 2004 (a previous store in Lockhart had closed in 1997). In 2005, the company introduced a more modern logo based on the old 1970s-era one with a little logo of a family and a new color scheme, while retaining the original typeface. The logo here was updated in early 2011.

This is split from this post, which in turn was from Carbon-izer.

12636 Research Boulevard featuring Mongolian Grille (Austin, Texas)

Advertisement from the Austin American-Statesman, Feb. 10 2005 Today's post has spun off from Research Boulevard in Austin (Austin, Texas), 12636 Research Boulevard.

This three-building property (also has North Brooke Plaza) has numerous strip mall tenants from the back near Jollyville Road to the highway side (built in 1984) through acquisitions. As of 2024, starting from the back near Jollyville Road, building A has The Abiding Glory Tabernacle, Hey Why Hair Braiding Salon (A-104), Pizza Hut (A-105), India Gate (A-110), and a location of Dimassi's Mediterranean Buffet. Building B has Fusion Tadka in the back (which replaced longtime tenant B.B. Rover's Cafe and Pub). Other tenants (working clockwise) are Hill Country Flooring (also home to Austin Painting & Cabinets), C&J Massage, Trippiez Smoke Shop, Oak Liquor Cabinet, Cash 4 Gold, and D 2.0 Bar (B-101). Building C has Kanji Ramen, Kung Fu & Self Defense (upper level), High Octane, Pretty Lady's African Hair Braiding (upper level), 101 Event Center (upper level), Mind Body Yoga (upper level), Best Brains Learning Center, GoldenLove Tattoo, and possibly others that weren't listed.

What I wanted to specifically wanted to focus on was suite A-110. This was Mongolian Grille (link goes to YouTube commercial) from 2001 to 2012. I ate there in 2004 and for a long time was trying to figure out where and what it was. I remember it being better than Genghis Grill (which has since departed from most of the state) with bigger portions and more selection. (I also remember how bright their orange sauce was). One of my restaurant guides (Fearless Critic Austin Restaurant Guide 2nd Edition) rated it quite poorly, partly because of its ambience (though they reviewed the downtown Austin location) and a stated goal that they like restaurants where the chef (not the customer) knows best when choosing between various proteins, starches, and sauces. (They hated Cafe Express in Houston for the same reason). Anyway, Mongolian Grille was replaced with the similar restaurant Mongo Fire (until around 2018) and has been an Indian restaurant since. Chicha's Fire And Grill opened by the end of 2018 but reused Mongo Fire's awnings (including their website and phone number). Around 2020, this closed and was replaced by India Gate. Prior to Mongolian Grille, it was "Cafe Chino" (Chinese restaurant, 1989-2001, mentioned in this article).

Former Cover-2 (Austin, Texas)

From Loopnet, taken in the early 2010s after Hooters closed and the awnings were stripped
This was originally built as a Black-eyed Pea in 1997 but closed in 2001 before it became Hooters (2004 to January 2012, likely closed in late 2011), and from 2012 to September 2025 has been Cover-2.

UPDATE 12-17-2025: Update to revamp post about Cover-2, all other entries previously not covered moved to Carbon-izer.