Some colleagues brought in some Blake's Lotaburger for lunch yesterday.
Is there anything more New Mexican than a Blake's green chile burger for lunch?
From Aztec to Tucumcari, from Alamo to Santa Fe, there are few better ways to spend a hungry Saturday afternoon at Blake's.
My personal favorite is the double Lotaburger with grilled onions, bacon, cheese and green chile. But you gotta be careful with that stuff. You can't do that every day.
Saturday, my daughter and I dined at the Blake's on North Main in Las Cruces.
You've probably all noticed this, but Saturday was the first time I consciously thought about it, but Blake's has, on its walls, framed, faded photographs of Blake's meals.
Isn't that kind of odd?
Are there other restaurants that have pictures of the food you're eating on the wall?
These photos feature the burgers and fries with cups of Pepsi and piles of fresh, whole tomatoes and lettuce, which by the way don't come with the meals.
I'm especially glad that local Mexican restaurants. How would you like to be dining on a Saturday or Sunday morning, with your face over a bowl of hot menudo, and you look up to see a photo of another bowl of hot menudo amid a pile of pig entrails?
Anyway, for the joy of eating at Blake's, I'll certainly overlook the small quirk of the photos of food.
Especially at the North Main location, which also features outdoor dining, with one of the best views of the Organ Mountains of any restaurant in Las Cruces. True, you have to overlook one of the busiest streets in town, but if you catch it a little while before sundown, with the alpenglow coloring the Organs magenta, and you've got a green chile Lotaburger in your hand, well, it doesn't get much better.
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The North Main Las Cruces location is being staffed with management that abuses their young staff for mistakes and errors being made for total lack of training. They just throw them to the jobs and expect success from the "show me" method. Very unprofessional to have youngsters striving to do a good job, only to be made to feel like morons. It's morons who are running the joint into the ground. I'd be surprised if they haven't been sued yet for harassment or assault on their employees!
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