No Name Restaurant

The ambiance - heads everywhere!

Burgers on the grill!

Look at at the size of that burger!

The onion rings are whoopers too!

Bill, Sharon and Isa

Mary and Lee

Richard & Donna

Al & Miriam

The hat that gave us the name of this cafe!

A group of our friends from Winter Ranch drove over to the No Name Restaurant in Weslaco this morning.  We left at 10:30 in order to be the first ones in line for lunch.  The restaurant opens at 11:00 AM but if you wait until then the line is out the door.  The real name for this restaurant is Gonzalez Burgers, however, several years ago the sign went down in a wind storm and they never replaced it.  We really didn't know the name of it until today when a couple of the cooks were wearing hats that said "Gonzalez Burgers".

This place is not popular with Winter Texans because of the ambiance.  It is because they serve a burger that is absolutely enormous.  Plus, they have one size of fries and onion rings and they easily serve two people.  Lee thinks they put a pound of meat in the hamburger but it is probably more like 3/4 of a pound.  Still, we ordered one hamburger and one order of onion rings and I couldn't eat all of my half.  Everyone goes at least once a year and takes some newbie Winter Texans with them to share the experience.

The Gonzalez family has run the restaurant for years.  The story is that the place was a butcher shop in the old days and Mr. Gonzalez felt sorry for some of the school kids who didn't have any lunch so he cooked burgers every day and took them over to the kids that would have gone hungry.  Since he was cooking burgers anyway, the restaurant just sort of happened and now it still thrives while the butcher shop is long gone.