==== Texas

== Austin
-Martin's Kum-Bak or Dirty's: old fashioned drive-in with great burgers
-Belmont 305 W 6th St: Bar achieves smoky atmosphere despite no smoke
-Zocalo Cafe Taqueria Fresca 1110 W Lynn St. Good healthy Mexican
-Labert's Downtown Barbecue 401 W 2nd St. All you can eat for $25
-Torchy's Tacos truck 1207 S First St. Decadent green-chili carnitas tacos

== Austin/San Antonio
-the oldest continuously operating honky-tonk in Texas, Gruene Hall, between Austin and San Antonio in Gruene (actually in New Braunfels?). Delbert McClinton plays there

== Fort Worth
-Cattlemen's Steakhouse

== Dallas
-Sonny Bryan's. Legendary.

== El Paso
-H & H Coffee Shop, great mex, Jane and Michael Stern

==== New Mexico

== Santa Fe
-Blue Corn Cafe, 133 Water St

==== Arizona
-Texas Roadhouse: Marana, Mesa, Peoria, Phoenix, Tucson, Yuma

==== Utah

== Bluff, Utah: last unspoiled region in the Southwest. 
- Recapture Lodge 435-672-2281
- Wild River Exp 800-422-7654
- Cow Canyon Trading Post - dinner