There's nothing unpleasantly fast about this fast food, particularly if you consider that most of the meats are cooked for up to 18 hours, where the heat and smoke of real oak and hickory wood fires imbues it with an unmistakeable and rich BBQ taste. At Armadillo Willy's, diners have been enjoying the flavors of real Texas barbeque right from 1983 and nothing has changed since then, except that they have opened at more locations across California. The service is friendly and the atmosphere is warm and inviting and there's little more needed for you to get down to some serious fun.

Start out with some of their renowned boneless buffalo wings, with fresh celery and chunky blue cheese and move on to the Memphis pulled pork roast or the smoked Andouille Cajun links. They also serve delicious salads, soups, burgers, BBQ sandwiches and Tex Mex specialities such as tortilla soup and Baja fish tacos. The caramel cornbread crisp sundae goes down well as dessert.