Editor Pick
Blanco Café
- February 18, 2001
- Rated 3 of 5 by
Mary Louisa from Wilmington, Delaware
This traditional breakfast and lunch house (no dinner) has the familiar Formica table/vinyl seat environment that marks a place as a locals’ hangout rather than a tourist trap. The best thing about Blanco Café is that it serves traditional, honest Tex-Mex food for CHEAP. Their menu offers breakfast burritos twenty different ways; some of the lunch specials on the days I went were chicken/beef fajitas and carne asada. It is filled with regulars on their lunch breaks, and you might need to wait for a table if you arrive right at noon. One day I got huevos rancheros accompanied by refried beans and pan-fried, cubed potatoes for a whopping $3.00. All meals come with flour tortillas for the whole table (which regulars top with whipped margarine spread!). The next day I had three cheese enchiladas, filled with unexpectedly orange cheese, wrapped in Blanco Café’s trademark red corn tortillas (made fresh at a local San Antonio bakery) for $4.00. As a near-vegetarian, I was interested to find that the enchilada sauce contained a healthy quantity of beef, which I ate around. The food is just right for the price and the atmosphere, and the staff is friendly and forthcoming about the area.
From journal San Antonio in Brief