Dot’s Place • Pflugerville

From Community Impact News, May 1, 2008...

Many people who have lived in the area for a while are familiar with Dot’s Place and the circumstances that brought the restaurant from its longtime home on Howard Lane to FM 1825 in Pflugerville. Dot Hewitt opened the original Dot’s Place in 1980, and in 2004 the restaurant burned to the ground. Nearly two years later, she was back in business and serving up her southern cooking. Hewitt’s parents taught her how to cook when she was 18 years old. Now, 50 years later she is still arriving to work at 6:15 a.m. to begin preparing food for the day. “To me, [all the dishes] are my favorites,” she said. “I don’t cook anything I won’t eat.”

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