Had a weird smell when I walked in. The hostess was friendly and was also my waitress. Got the…read moresliced brisket sandwich. The brisket was tender, but appeared to be from a package. All the cuts appear to be the same thin thickness no variations. Reminded me of the precooked brisket that I can buy at Sam's. Maybe not but.....sure appeared that way. Price was reasonable. Might try again to see if the cuts are same.

Shocked! I grew up on Sutphens BBQ in Amarillo & was so excited about going to this one in Borger…read more As soon as we walked in the front door & smelled nothing we should have turned around immediately. The old ones you would smell the smoking meat as soon as you got out of your car, inside your mouth would water waiting for the wonderful food. But this one NOTHING! Then to find a buffet. But we really wanted to give them the benefit of doubt. RUN, don't walk, away from this place. We have all had bad food before but this is way beyond that. Gross!!! Food all left on our plate & complaints only met with "sorry". $60.00 later & also now know why only a few tables of that huge place was occupied. Wish I could give lower than 1 star.

The salt and pepper shakers were dirty. The bathroom was not clean. They used to have a young man…read morewho kept the place clean. I'm assuming he no longer works there. Then when we went to check out there was a $3.00 holiday fee. There was no food on the buffet special for a holiday. Need to edit saying that the hot and sour soup was completely different than what they used to make. Some of the food was cold. We used to like this place. Totally disappointed.

Chinese buffets are my guilty pleasure. I don't know why, but I seem to be drawn to them. This…read morevisit to China Dragon was pretty good. At 5:30 pm on a Tuesday, there was only one other table in use which would not be a good sign. But I checked out the buffet and decided to stick it through. By 6:00 pm, there were a few more people here. This was good. More than a dozen hot items on the steam table and they included the usual meat and vegetable and sauce. Some noodles, some rice, some soups. Nothing unusual or overly creative but it was tasty and filling and definitely inexpensive. The woman working the register was also clearing tables and refreshing drinks. More food came out to refill some of the steam table items. The restaurant is clean and the table was cleared immediately after patrons departed. I'd have liked to see more options or even some sushi, but this is the Texas Panhandle not San Francisco. It's good enough. [Review 16177 overall - 354 in Texas - 1683 of 2021.]

Good barbecue, sauces and fast service. Ice tea selections are great. Solid 4.5 starsread more

Excellent service, very kind and polite. The food was very good, more than enough to take home for…read moreanother meal. The BBQ sauces were amazing. We will be back!'

Today I witnessed God. Not the Jesus on the tired, listing billboard with its rusted iron roots…read morepulled up by the prevalent wind scouring this dusty patch of North Texas but from this innocuous, humble piece of chopped brisket before me that has just changed my reality in a way that will never change back. I am on one of those once-in-a-lifetime walkabouts with my daughter as we hop from asphalt lily pad to lily pad in her beat-up RAV 4, journeying ever Eastward from the gently lapping waves of Santa Barbara to Miami's Solla Salew shores where she will matriculate for her marine mammal masters (The Tripple M they call it in various job posting and loan application sites). Its been triple digit Temperatures for the last 20 hours of driving. A tour of hades realm. I will remember the specific moment today when my wonderful, non-red-meat-eating daughter, in an enduring act of kindness suggested that we go to a bar-b-que during our brief run through the Texas pan-handle as recompense for going to visit her friend in OKC rather than run the southern grill gauntlet through Dallas. I pressed the yelp button and we went down the Amarillo rabbit hole...across some train tracks, around the aforementioned canted "Jesus is here" billboard (but before the better tended "Jesus is Coming" promissory), past two cows too hot to stand, down a lane next to an grain silo, stood a sign. It stated simply but profoundly, "Beer Open" Surviving the sweep of ages, what more is there really in life? Beer? Check. Open? Always on so many levels. As my eyes wandered over to the more traditional homage to this establishment's Nome de guere- "Pork n' Things". I was able to surmise the primary offerings from the initial noun but I was intrigued by the 'n' things' and what they might entail (or perhaps entrail). Girding our loins, we crossed the heavenly air conditioned threshold. Suffice to say, God had not yet made his/her/their/them/they appearance and it wasn't until after we ordered our sweet tea/lemonade that I made the decision that changed my life. I asked for some of the brisket (my choice was chopped) and some of the ribs I saw walking out the door with a Harley driver into the teeth of that Texas summer furnace heat. We sat idly, my daughter pondering her phone and striking up a conversation with a shy, angelic little girl who had bravely helped her mom set the table for us and shared her Lilo and stich drawing. It was at this moment that my world tilted. I figured that I would go for the brisket first as an appetizer to the main course of ribs. They had chopped it finely and I sporked half of it into my mouth. Epiphany. So many images colliding at once, each visually shouting over the other to be heard... To be RECOGNIZED. I remember a childhood national geographic where the Eskimo dad offered the still pumping seal heart to his son as he bit down and the blood flowed. I thought of Jody Foster trans-warping to another dimension mumbling "I didn't know! I didn't know! at the grandeur of the cosmos. I thought of the show 'Chopped' where they lectured recalcitrant chefs on not just making a meal but rather transforming it...elevating it to some other plane of being. That first bite punched though my mortal coil like a coherent beam of light from a collapsing neutron star raising my orbit to a plane of being I did not know existed. Stripping away layers of civilization, I felt primal and powerful. Like Dungeon Crawler Carl, I had been converted...elevated to something greater than my constituent bits. Part dire wolf, part berserker, part 90th level undead necromancing mage. The fat and smoked meat sat in my mouth, my brain shutting down my throat muscles not wanting this oral carnality to end. Imagine stripping away every vestige of civilization, de-evolving a million years when survival and procreation were equal partners in a race to the future. My body was humming and I felt alive in a way that I had not since that weekend in Tiajuana with those carny workers. I had a brief moment of panic that my newfound vigor would cause me to spontaneously combust or that this magical alchemy would somehow bind with the brisket and miraculously impregnate a wandering waitress out of sheer will...like the reproductive equivalent of magnetic induction such was the primordial essence of that single bite. But I digress. Suffice to say, I am a California lifer. I can tell you what cheese is on a charcuterie board and whether the uni is fresh but I don't have sufficient reference for what is considered presentable bar-b-que. My data set is certainly sparse but in my humble, untrained opinion, if you need a reference point...a place to start your own bar-b-que walkabout, Amarillo's Pork n' Things is a guiding star to what brisket and pork ribs can be in the hands of a master truly anointed, perhaps divinely, in their craft.

It's a fun little spot you wouldn't know about unless you had heard about it from other people or…read morelooked it up. Everyone is so friendly when you walk in and very thoughtful. You order food at the register and then sit down, so when you order a dessert, they can put a little note to serve it to you at the end. Speaking of dessert, that pecan cobbler ala mode smacks! The perfect ending to a delicious meal. The meat is so tender and falls off the bone. You don't need a knife to cut anything. A plastic knife will do the job easily. They say the brisket is the star of the show and I can attest to that. However, the turkey is the runner up. I don't know what they do to that Turkey, but my husband and I might have to grab more to take home with us tomorrow. They were so nice too because we ordered a 1/2 rack of ribs and they ran out, so we got the last of the ribs. The also doubled all our meats! We wound up getting 1/2 a lb of turkey and 1 lb of brisket! We are going to be eating some good sandwiches for the next few days. We definitely plan on coming back the next time we are in Amarillo. If you're in the area, definitely come in and grab a bite! They also have plenty of choices in beer too.

Excited to stop in when we saw the building. Thought it was going to be a quintessential Texas…read moreawesome restaurant but NOPE! Made it our lunch stop and so bummed. The BBQ was completely tasteless along with everything else!! BBQ sauce was unremarkable ( don't doubt it's a commercial brand). Asked if their green beans were made with bacon or spices and was told yes. NOPE! Straight out of the can. Yuck. My cousin got the fries with everything on top and his fries were COLD! As if they'd been sitting out for a few HOURS! Chicken fried steak was tasteless, too. A Texas restaurant that makes bad Chicken Fried Steak??? Sacrilegious!!! Such a shame because the name and building hooked us right away. Shoulda read the reviews!! Keep on looking for another place. This isn't worth your hard earned money.

Breakfast food was cheap and quick. This was our first time here…read more Excellent customer service. Waitress very friendly. The brisket was delicious. No smoke flavor though. The Potatoes were homemade. Cole slaw was sweet and Good. All the Food was hot and freshly prepared. Everything clean and smelled good.

If you are looking for a small town cute restaurant with amazing food, stop here! We stopped for…read morebreakfast and greeted by the super friendly locals immediately. I had the Texas shapes pancake and a side of grits - so good! My husband had an omelette with hash browns and biscuits and gravy. Lots of food and so good. Great prices too!

Cozy Quaint On…read moreFAMOUS ROUTE 66 Down home cooking Friendly waitress Chips/queso Club sandwich Chicken strips

Great food and service..what could be better? Cool ambiance…read more Need place. Cat fish was best I have had! Wife loved her salmon and rice. The free cobbler was very good Water was quick and personable Love this place!!

We spent the night in our trailer at the Cactus Inn next door. The restaurant was recommended, and…read morethere is little else in the area. It was a relaxing stop after a long day of driving and provided a bit of Texas culture for the one night we would be in the state. There cute decor and an actual singing cowboy provided the ambience, and we enjoyed Texas sized servings of ribeye and chicken fingers. The steak was perfect and the chicken fingers raised the bar on what they really should be. They were Gigantic, juicy, crunchy, and served with gravy. I enjoyed the beans I ordered, but wished for mashed potatoes instead, ha ha! The service was quick, professional, and friendly. This place is a real gem for I-40 travelers.