Pflugerville has lost another longtime neighborhood gathering place after Springhill Restaurant ended its 41-year run on Friday, October 16. The beloved Texas catfish restaurant had welcomed generations of families since 1985.
Founder Carroll Humphrey built Springhill around straightforward Southern cooking and Texas hospitality. Fried catfish was the star, joined by fried shrimp, chicken-fried steak, burgers, okra, hush puppies, fried green tomatoes and peach cobbler. Its daily lunch buffet—and especially the Friday buffet remembered by regulars—gave families and coworkers an affordable place to fill a plate and linger.
Four decades of catfish and conversation
The food was only part of Springhill’s identity. The restaurant’s walls and rafters were crowded with antiques, signs and pieces of Texas history, including tributes to Lone Star Beer, Bastrop Feed Company, Dixie Pig and Granger Hardware and Tin Shop. The eclectic collection made the dining room feel less like a polished chain and more like a place that had accumulated stories one meal at a time…