This write up is pretty good. I just had lunch. And already I'm hungry.

Chris Madrid’s – San Antonio, Texas (9.0)

I am going to introduce you, if you aren’t already familiar, with San Antonio burger royalty. Chris Madrid’s. This is a San Antonio right of passage. In this institution you won’t find a health loving, better-life burger that will leave you ready to embrace a healthy green future. What you will find is a burger that does not apologize for anything that burgers exist for. Cheese. Meat. Butter-toasted buns. Circumference. Grease. Good God the grease!

Yes, Chris Madrids was omitted from Texas Monthly’s 50 Best Burgers in Texas. Yeah, it somewhat goes against my “just right burger-size,” what am i talking about, Chris Madrids obliterates that. But what you need to understand is that there is something entirely magical about what the cheese is doing. It’s beyond sex, it is cheese globs sblobbing and drobbling all over your sweet little face. If you even make it half way through this beast, you can consider your burger-innocence completely and thoroughly BURGERED. And even if you ever do stop making out with the cheese ( i never did), there’s a patty there that never went understated. Made on a grill that has seen its share of San Antonio times, that patty wants you to want it. This place is a staple, a must, a always come back, a best memory for sure.

Originally opened as a burger and taco establishment by a University of Texas Marketing graduate in 1977, the tacos were soon phased out by the awesomeness of the burgers. The menu is pretty simple with six headlining burgers that come in two sizes: regular and MACHO. A beastly chicken sandwich, chalupas, nachos and fries round up the menu with a very inviting bar located on the other side of the restaurant.

I went for the regular Cheddar Cheesy minus the onions. While other members of the burger team pledged an undying loyalty to the Tostada Burger. As you can see, eating this burger isn’t a clean event. I was privy to witness my burger comrades eating the Tostada Burger two different ways. The successful method being an approach that treats the burger as a pizza, or perhaps that famous Latin cuisine: Tostada. Kyle Pippin, in a moment of Tostada burger completion ecstasy stated the event was definitely “Intercourse inducing” (weirdly true). While the fries are subpar, I’ve had encounters with the nachos that are other wordly.

There’s always a line. You might always have to have half your party scouting for a table while the other half waits in line and orders. There’s an atmosphere that tells you you’re eating somewhere that means something to San Antonians. And it does. The burgers do. A section on the Chris Madrid’s site allows for personal stories. There you’ll find 98 stories of testament to the institution. You need to go eat at Chris Madrids. EAT IT- because it’s a 9. Eat it ’cause your arteries want it.

Chris Madrid’s Nachos and Burgers
1900 Blanco Rd
San Antonio, TX 78212

President You Didn’t Build That’s charming and lovely wife has a fit—then has three cheeseburgers with everything.

Both of them boys had more talent in their pinky fingers than the rest of the male cast members, from that day to this, have had in their whole bodies.

Ever try an Italian cheeseburger?

Made with mozzarella....which is the BEST melting cheese ever..add some sauted onions and bacon..awesome

It must also have green chile.

Darn you, Slim. I just ate, and now I'm hungry again.

I just recently tried the sopaipilla burger at Casa de Benavides on 4th in ABQ. Yum. Medium burger, so juicy. Good green chile.

Back at ya! Pork tenderloins sandwich. This is what you eat in Iowa! About the only thing I miss about the place.

Love Fuddruckers. Only one close to me closed a year or so ago. We used to split the one pounder even when we had money.

Grandson loves Wendy’s so stopped there Monday on the way home for school to get him a $.99 Junior Bacon burger. Without bacon is now $1.19, with bacon $1.69.

Went on home and fixed him one there for a whole lot less than $1.69. At least they still have Frosty’s for $.99 but man are they small now.

Now tell me honestly.

You don't like the cheeseburger?

It must also have green chile.

Right on! One of the best fast-food burgers out there (other than In'N Out) is a Six Dollar bacon-guacamole cheeseburger from Carl's Jr. (or Hardee's), with a slice of green chile (and the usual lettuce, tomato and red onion), without the gucky "santa fe" sauce. Now I'm drooling at your photo :-)

Never had one, but it sounds delicious.

Even better if your brine the pork first..

My that looks good. Mind if I have some of your tasty beverage to wash it down with?

Not crazy. Stupid.

This is an example of how computers rule our lives. We have to do what the computers say, not the computers doing as WE wish.

Here’s what happened: Minimum wage kid is in front of a screen with GUI buttons, like on your smart phone. If the kid punches “hamburger”, the computer brings up the regular price. If she punches “cheeseburger”, the BOGO special price comes up.

SO - while she could have done it on her own, she probably did not think about it. She was working the way the machine wanted her to work. I’ll bet $100 that’s what happened.

One of my pet peeves.

Ha! See post 35...

And I wouldn’t be surprised if the cheese on that cheeseburger (hold the cheese) is thrown away for inventory purposes.

Here’s what happened: Minimum wage kid is in front of a screen with GUI buttons,
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How about the MWK receiving a $2.00 bill and calling the manager to ‘check it out’. Manager chastises here and belittles her in front of customer and he tells her just take the money, put in how much and the machine will tell you how much change to give.

Of course, she followed his advice to the letter when a couple of days later a customer handed her a $40.00 bill......

Basically a true story BUT the bill involved was a $200.00 and she gladly handed out the change. I think she got canned NOT for the mistake but for accepting a bill OVER 20 without Manager Approval.....

Putting cheese on a good hamburger is a sign of lunacy.

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only the cheeseburger will remain.

There exists only one burger in the country, and I will drive 500 miles and into the most evil state in the country to get it