Let's Do Lunch: Miller's Cafe

By Mary Jane on Jun 17, 2010

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Miller's Cafe Bacon Cheeseburger
Houstonist used to do a plethora of burger reviews. We've toyed with the idea of carrying that forward and giving you our "Top 10", however, that requires a commitment to try-out for a certain reality show on our part. So, well, we're half balking at the prospect. We do still enjoy getting our bacon cheeseburger on occasionally. Driving Westheimer and trying to decide what to do for lunch, we spied a Miller's Cafe we were sorta unaware of. At the end of a strip center at 6383 Westheimer sits a Miller's Cafe. Score!! Visions of bacon cheeseburger immediately danced in our heads and we whipped into the somewhat empty parking lot.

The burger was properly cooked, pinkish and juicy (to our taste) with a nice amount of fresh crisp veggies and thick crispy bacon. You can see the bacon all hanging out of the toasted poppy seed bun in our fuzzy cellphone photo. We also ordered us some onion rings and got the whole shooting match to-go. Five minutes later, we plopped in the fly-swatter chair at the pod farm and the burger was warm and the rings, well were not so warm. Also, the onion rings appeared to be of the frozen variety. We are not snobs when it comes to rings, but a crispy tater tot or semi-limp french fry might have been a little better. We ate it all anyway (there's a trend, it's in front of us, we typically eat it - unless it's huge, then, we take it to-go and pray for an eco-friendly container). if you haven't eaten at Miller's, you need to remedy that situation, promptly. Miller's offers much more than just burgers, they even have *gasp* salads! All locations are closed on Sunday's and the Downtown Tunnel location is also closed on Saturday.

Summary: Juicy burger, crispy veggies (drag it through the garden), toasted bun and thick, crispy bacon. Burger win! The onion rings, well if you're dining in, go for it. Dining out? Get the fries, they are always good and hand-cut. Total drive out, without a drink was $8.61 - the price is right. We will go back, it's close to work and hugely, way and ever so-much-better than a fast food burger that costs just as much or more.

Locations:

Westheimer
6383 Westheimer
Houston, TX 77057
832.252.0500

Clear Lake
2403C Bay Area Blvd.
Houston, TX 77058
281.461.8998
Downtown - Tunnel
1001 McKinney B-4
Houston, TX 77002
713.658.0400

Medical Center
6560 Fannin, Ste 110
Houston, TX 77030
713.791.1717

Garden Oaks
3830 N. Shepherd
Houston, TX 77018
713.699.2947

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