Where: This Is It Soul Food, 207 Gray, 713-659-1608
What $13 gets you: A plate of good, down-home Southern soul food, with three heaps of vegetables and your choice of meats
Thank goodness Frank Jones was poor as a kid. Jones, who along with his wife Mattie, founded This Is It Soul Food in 1943, grew up stretching meals to feed his brother, sister and himself after his mom died when he was 12. He dreamed, his PR info says, of owning a restaurant where "only hearty portions would be served." A
