Stop & Eat Drive-In

I will start with one caveat: I am biased about Stop & Eat since I grew up in the area and this has always been my favorite burger joint. Keep that in mind if I start gushing too much.

The location itself looks like something out of a 50's era snapshot. The indoor seating is sparse and consists of two counters and a handful of bolted down bar stools. The vast majority of patrons dine in their cars under corrugated steel canopies.  There are no intercoms to order from and no carhops to serve you.  You place your order either inside or from the "walk up window" and you pick it up when your number is called from a loudspeaker.

The food selection is a combination of burger-joint and taco-stand fare with lots of fresh, New Mexican chile.  The signature burger, the Jumbo Twin, is arguably the best burger I have ever had in NM or anywhere else. However, it's the rolled tacos, or taquitos, that I am addicted to.  The filling is a unique, molten mess of beefy, cheesy goodness that I find myself craving way more often than is healthy. Now that I think about it, I don't believe I've ever had anything else from the menu, so I can't comment about other items.