Your favorite burger?

[doncoulter]

I second the recommendation of Crustaceo Cascaruro, though I think the burgers at Santo Café are about equally good. Both establishments also have decent fries, which are hard to come by in Guanajuato, and Santo Café offers a good potato salad as a side as well.

A negative recommendation: I've seen raves about La Burger (behind Campo Viejo on the outskirts of town), but I've been once and won't go back. Their burgers are indeed made of high-quality meat, but the prices are ridiculous. Further, our burgers took about 45 minutes to arrive, despite there being no other customers. Worst of all, they were not cooked to our order. We had to send them back twice, and they still arrived undercooked. At that point we gave up.

Regarding the "selective crackdown" on outdoor tables, I think it was unfortunate that it was somewhat selective. All in all, though, it pleased me. Restaurant tables had for years encroached on public space--most notoriously and flagrantly in the case of Casa Valadez (Guanajuato's answer to Denny's)--and I thought it was high time that the government cracked down. It's so rare that the city government here does anything that I feel compelled to applaud its rare initiative.