There are many activities that should not be performed on an empty stomach, including swimming, surgery, and swimming 30 minutes after having your appendix removed. Acquire activity fuel with today's Groupon: for $4, you get $8 worth of American fare at Blake's Bar-B-Q & Burgers on Jeanetta Street. Family-owned and operated for nearly 30 years, Blake's Bar-B-Q & Burgers prepares and smokes its meat on the premises, serving its slathered proteins alongside a variety of savory homemade cuisine. Amid a charming dining room decked with odds and ends, diners happily remove their teething rings to chomp into barbequed meats, a variety of po' boys ($6–6.95), bulging burritos ($5.50–6.50), and more. A butter-toasted bun encases the restaurant-favorite burger—its crisp-edged beef patty adorned with plump grilled onions, tomato, lettuce, and pickle slivers ($4.25). Meanwhile, leaf lovers can nosh vegetarian options such as the swiss mushroom burger ($5.25), and spice-starved palates can devour the kick-burger—its feisty disc spiced with jalapeño peppers, blanketed in pepper jack cheese, read banned nursery rhymes, and splashed with barbecue sauce ($6.50).

Reviews

The Houston Chronicle named Blake's Bar-B-Q & Burgers as a place to find Houston's ultimate barbecue. Eleven Citysearchers give Blake's Bar-B-Q & Burgers a 4.5-star rating.

• Blake's BBQ and Burgers is a three-fer: they dispense my Ultimate Loaded Baked Potato along with my Ultimate Barbecue Desserts in a setting that gets my vote as the Ultimate Barbecue Atmosphere. – Alison Cook, Houston Chronicle
• Kinda what I think a burger out to be. Hand formed patties, fresh cut trimmings, grill-toasted bun and they will fix it ANY way you want it. – whammock, Citysearch