One for the foodies...ping at ya!
What a shame. There’s nothing like good barbeque.
Good BBQ giving way before tofu and granola. Sad.
My husband has gone there for years and years. They give him scraps for his Beagle. Really good people. But I guess everyone deserves a rest.
I actually got to say hello to the elder Bush there one evening many years ago. He went through the line like anyone else and was very friendly.
Otto’s BBQ is very good, but I go there for their delicious cheeseburgers with mayo. The Best!
The hamburger section is loud, crowded, no ceremony or instructions on where to order, where to pay, etc. But everybody figures it out!
My next favorite hamburger joint is Southwells (one on San Felipe and one on Holcombe). Their blue-cheese hamburger is to die for!
Sorry to hear that! Every time I come back to Houston from California for a visit, it seems like my hometown (including my native Heights and my stompin’ grounds around Westheimer and Kirby) is disappearing, even after just a few years.
In 1962, my mother packed 5 kids up in a station wagon (I was oldest at 14) and drove from Boston to Whittier,Ca. to visit her dying brother.
I can't begin to describe the adventure and education that summer was ... but this story reminded me of old Rt. 66 and the wonderful memories of unique buildings and clever entrepreneural experiments in marketing.
I've looked for a link to what I remember, but I can't find one that is just right for my memories ... but when I became an adult, and slowed down to do some remembering .. I realized what a national treasure old 66 was.
I'm a sucker for things that used to be, but are no longer .. for whatever reason.
(sighhh)
Well, I’ll be. Or, better, “I swan.” That’s geezerette-ish enough.
I haven’t gotten out of my cave in so long that I haven’t had an Otto’s burger in a coon’s age, but used to really love ‘em. Lots of mayo. Didn’t care much for their BBQ, tho, so never went to that side - it was a “whole ‘nuther world,” lol, so I missed 41 & 43 - but saw 41 at Pino’s once.
Used to also really love Roznovski’s burgers not far away - and they got driven out, too. I hear they’re still around in a new place, but I haven’t been there, either.
But then, I never got over the demise of Gourmet Burgers, either, lol. Different kinds of burgers, all of them. I liked their mushrooms and Swiss cheese, but wouldn’t ever have one like that anywhere else.
Also back then, Brittain’s Broiler-Burgers chili-cheeseburger #3 was my must-have and it’s also hard to beat WhataBurgers for just plain drive-thru convenience - if you like mustard burgers, which I do.
Love NM green chile cheeseburgers, too - best I had was somewhere out on a backroad between Santa Fe and maybe ... hmmm ... not sure where that little place is. Only went there with a friend who lived in that neck of the woods.
It was probably up the road from Espanola towards Chimayo, or possibly between Espanola and Dixon. Traveled both frequently. This was just a little stand on the side of the road, nothing else around. A few tables outside and a ton of customers getting to-go orders.