It is Saturday and as you know, I recently lost a bad knife fight just north of Deep Ellum. So I am still recovering. So, I can't work in the yard, work on cars, or move my refrigerators around, like any good self-respecting red-neck.
So Chipper came in and said we should take a ride in the country in the convertible. That is why we bought it. So don't ask twice, let's boogy.
The only right thing to do is to trip on down to the Homeland of Rednecks, East Texas. Fortunately we only live a few blocks from the Mother Road of East Texas, Hwy 80. So we jumped on 80 East and got our Boogy on. Our plan was to drive until it was lunch time and then get our food groove on.
The weather was very pretty, temperature was perfect and not much traffic. So we had a real pleasant drive. We pulled into a gas station in Mineola because the Convert was low on gas. Now this must be the home of rednecks. You couldn't move around the store because of all of the one-liner gaming machines. So gas, cigarettes, beer and gaming machines. Glad I only need gas.
It was a little after 11:00, which is a little early for lunch, so we did the Mitcho Truckon (new dance)to Hawkins about 20 miles down the road. It was close enough to noon to eat, so we had to decide whether we wanted to eat in the one restaurant in Hawkins or go back to Mineola where there are two good hamburger joints (East Texas Burger Co. and Hutchins Hardware (Yes a burger joint inside a hardware store, how cool is that)). We decided to eat in the Hawkins place because it was new to us.
So we pulled in to Richies Grill and Café. This is where Petty's café used to be. I don't remember ever eating Petty's lunch food, but I went there a number of times for PIE. And I mean PIE!!! However, Petty's closed down 5 or 10 years ago. There is still a Petty's sign on the side of the building.
Inside Richies is nothing to speak of, it is the basic East Texas restaurant. Nothing special. The waitress led us to a booth and it was on.
First thing they did was bring us a basket of chips and salsa. (They do have Mexican food on the menu.) How cools is that. Stop to get a burger and get chips and salsa thrown in. The chips were your standard fare, but the salsa was very good. The salsa had a good supply of onion, cilantro and a number of other spices. It was very tasty.
The burger is a 1/2 lb burger, so you know it, Chipper had to SHARE a burger. (The picture above is my plate after the 60/40 split.) The burger was a very tasty patty, with the right veggies. Yum Yum. I really like the onion rings, they were breaded up almost perfectly. They also had a great taste.
Overall, this was a good lunch. It will be on our East Texas hit list for the future.
Giv'em an 8.2175942
Mitcho
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