By Greg Morago

Tony Mandola's namesake restaurant has gone through changes in style, menu, location and name over three decades. The restaurant owned by Tony and Phyllis Mandola started out as Blue Oyster Bar when it opened in 1982. Then there was Tony Mandola's Blue Oyster Bar when it opened on Shepherd.

Then came the big move to River Oaks on West Gray when it became Tony Mandola's Gulf Coast Kitchen. And then another shift when they moved into grand new digs on Waugh and the name changed again to, simply, Tony Mandola's.

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