What food does your home town specialize in?

Texas in general specializes in two types of food, namely barbecue and Mexican. Different cities and parts of the state specialize in one or the other; San Antonio leaning more towards Mexican, Dallas-Fort Worth more towards barbecue. Houston, being between them, is superior in that we get large numbers of both.

Other things that are about and could be specialties include Vietnamese cuisine (dominated by Kim Son) and a disturbingly diverse selection of seafood restaurants (several of them are owned by Landry's Restaurants, though).

While hardly a specialty, per se, there are two fairly local pizza places that I would cheerfully reccommend if that's what floats your boat. One, Double Dave's, can be found statewide, while the other, Candelari's, is a purely Houston chain. There was a third I liked, Fuzzy's, but its quality has dipped in recent years.

Jam it back in, in the dark.