Sunday, June 30, 2013

Eve’s Café On the Square – Lampasas, Texas


Every so often you stumble on a restaurant where the food is so unexpectedly good that you have to wonder why doesn’t everyone know this place? Why am I just discovering it? Eve’s Café On the Square, in Lampasas, Texas is that place. Lampasas is not exactly a tourist destination, nor is it known for great restaurants. It is the seat of Lampasas County, in Central Texas, about 30 miles west of Killeen – and as it turns out, there is at least one great eatery in town.


Sunday, June 16, 2013

Rudy’s Bar-B-Q - Killeen, Texas

Don’t let the gas pumps out front fool you. Yes, Rudy’s sells gasoline, but that’s not why we go there. It’s the barbecue that makes Rudy’s a destination for hungry people. It’s a no frills kind of place. You order your food on your way in, and find a spot at a picnic type table either inside or on the patio. Then you sit there with the fabulous aroma of barbecue wafting over you until you are certain you can’t stand to wait another minute to eat.


Sunday, June 9, 2013

Storm’s Drive-In – Lampasas, Texas

It is extremely rare these days to find nineteen fifties’ style drive-in restaurants. Even more rare are the original such places – drive-ins that actually started back in the era of Elvis Presley, Bill Haley and the Comets, and ‘DA’ haircuts. Some of today’s drive-ins are modern interpretations, but many of them fall short of creating the same kind of feel as the originals. One of the few such original – real - drive-ins, is Storm’s Drive-In, with locations in Lampasas, Burnet, Marble Falls, Kingsland, and Hamilton, Texas.