You came hungry, and Texas is ready. These town cafes and smokehouses serve plates so big you will need both hands and a good plan.
From butter-crusted pies to rivers of brisket juice, lunches here skip dainty and chase flavor. Bring an appetite, a friend, and maybe a nap scheduled after.
Blue Bonnet Cafe – Marble Falls, Texas
Blue Bonnet Cafe is the kind of place where your lunch plate arrives like a friendly dare. Chicken fried steak spills over the edges, with cream gravy pooling into mashed potatoes and charred green beans.
You will want to save room for pie, yet the mile-high meringues commandeer all willpower…