The Athen's Cafe

Tried to find this place.  Either I am blind or it has closed.

I was in Canton antiquing, not on their famous First Monday, but on a less crowded Saturday.  That makes a gal hungry I'm telling ya!

Thought I'd find a small diner type restaurant, with good East Tx cooking--BBQ, diner style, whatever.  The name and the look of the building told me it was on the western diner/BBQ end of the spectrum.  Some sort of stuffed animal with horns in one of the windows.  Newer building, great parking, seemed to have several folks eating there (it was about 3pm) so that meant something to me.  

Walk in, greeted quickly by hostess, sweet East Tx accent. Immediately noticed decor had a mexican flair.  Top of menu "Athens Mexican Cafe"... hmmmm maybe I was so hungry I just didn't notice "mexican" on the sign??  No worries, i'm a huge tex-mex fan, I'll be just fine.  Menu did have a few items that were in the hamburger category, but when it's 90% mexican food, you don't order hamburgers.

Recently, I've been on a search for the best tortilla soup.  Started with that  ($4 how big could it be?).  Just to make sure I wouldn't go hungry, I ordered some chicken nachos ($8).  WOW.  Lotsa soup.  Rice, pico, avocado on the side.  Nachos even bigger.  Pile of nacho chips with fajita chicken meat, cheese, lettuce, sour cream, pico, guac... the works.  This was a lot of food!  Fully belly of Tex-Mex and two glasses of sweet tea later, I was on my way.   Two people could've enjoyed all of this food.  Servings are quite large.

Oh, and btw... the exterior sign did NOT say Mexican on it.  Thought that was funny.  Maybe they'll get a round to adding it.