ROANOKE, Va. – Is it possible for something to be mysterious, delicious, and authentic all at the same time? If it is — perhaps it’s the Cheesy Western at the Texas Tavern.
“We had a Western when we opened up, which is a hamburger and egg. That’s from the beginning. And a few years later, my grandfather decided to put cheese on it, sometime in the 30s. We’ve had a cheesy Western since then,” Matt Bullington, owner of the Texas Tavern, said.
Bullington says as far as he knows, the Texas Tavern was the first to put an egg on a hamburger…