The Devil's Burger (ciabatta, grilled jalapeno, pepper jack cheese, jalapeno mayo, lettuce, tomato, pickle, and onions; $10.5), named after the nearby Devils River, is their specialty, and it is simply fantastic (two months later I'm still thinking about that burger...).

Before the pandemic, in far simpler times, we still had restaurant news: so here we go!

Sam Hellmann-Mass, formerly of Barley Swine and Odd Duck, took his love of corn and Oaxaca and created Suerte, a masa-focused restaurant leveraged with local ingredients.

As things develop, I'm hoping to see restaurants post how they are monitoring staff for fevers and social distancing, how they are cleaning surfaces at the restaurant, and how they will handle and communicate when an employee is diagnosed with covid-19.

About halfway through our five-hour drive, the bride calmly but firmly stated "I need a breakfast taco." If there's one thing I've learned about living with Mrs. Wanderlist over the past three decades, it's that her hangryness can reach Godzillian proportions.

Our first visit to Del Rio in the mid-1990s was something of a disaster.

Midland is an interesting place. As the urban heart of the oil and gas industry, trucks of all shapes and sizes flow through its veins, pumpjacks throbbing in every direction, and honest-to-goodness rigs drilling and fracking within the city limits.

The name Momofuku comes in part from the inventor of instant ramen (Momofuku Ando) and in part from Samuel L. Jackson's most famous utterance...

Any West Texas town worth its dust has a Mexican restaurant worth veering off the highway for. The trick is finding out which one of many it is. In Fort Stockton, based on a tip from locals, it's Tacos OJ.

The French-Creole influence results in vibrant food where even the shishito peppers and the salads have been chef'd into guilty pleasures. Hell, they even fry the cheesecake!