Fred's Texas Cafe Camp Bowie West

Been a fan of Fred's for decades. Finally went and tried the Bolo Burger. Not a fan of onions, so I ordered it with lettuce and pickles in place of the fried onion strings. Well, the first attempt was wrong, it did have lettuce and pickles, but also the onion strings. The waitress took it back, and the kitchen scraped them off, just like I was going to do. I do wish I would have at least got a fresh top bun. Oh well, on with the review. I wanted to see the cross-section of the burger, so I cut it in half. I didn't realize that there were two slices of bologna on the burger! What a nice surprise. The first bite was a little messy, but I managed to get all the ingredients into one bite. It was pretty close to amazing. I never would have thought about putting bologna on top of a burger, but I'm so glad I tried it. Finished the burger in short order. I ate my fries, but they were just a little cold. All in all, 7.5 out of 10. It wasn't very busy, so maybe the kitchen wasn't too enthused about reading the whole order. But it was still pretty good.

Had chicken fried steak. I dropped my steak knife but did not need it. The fried steak was fork tender. The house salad came with the steak, and the corn side was superb.

Our first burger of burger week. We're off to a great start. It's a great deal for a regular sized burger and side.

The food is really expensive. $16 for a salad seems steep. The margaritas are good. I did sit at the bar with an empty glass for a LONG time. No one asked if I wanted anything else. I had to flag someone down.

I had lunch with a friend. The food was good and the service was excellent, but be prepared to spend some money. We split a lunch and then had dessert and it cost 58.00.