There is nothing so appetizing in all the annals of hunger like a freshly prepared chicken fried steak with your choice of eggs, a bowl of grits and a warm, flaky buttermilk biscuit for breakfast, served bright and early at the Grand Central Café, 1010 Kings Court in Kingsland, Texas. What make this quaint country house so notable, however, isn’t just what’s for breakfast—it’s also happens to be where they filmed the classic horror film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
While the house today is mostly a moderately fine dining establishment, serving breakfast, lunch and dinner to visitors both hungry and curious, in 1974 it was the dilapidated home where the Sawyers, a cannibalistic clan of inbred folks, made mincemeat out of a lost van full of dirty hippies, their sexy girlfriends, and, most problematic of all, a routinely annoying handicapped dude named Franklin.