Leaving work after a long day, I knew I wanted steak. I'm not from Roswell, so I had to rely on Yelp and Google to tell me what was available. Now the other alternative was Texas Roadhouse. Don't get me wrong, I'm regionally from where Texas Roadhouse was founded and it's huge, especially where I'm from. But part of my philosophy when traveling is to try someplace new, traditionally NOT a chain. So I gave this a shot. Cattle Baron reminds me of those old school steakhouses in the 90s that served steaks and an AYCE salad bar. Except it's much nicer ambiance-wise with a broader menu. I ordered the largest ribeye steak they had with a loaded baked potato, unlimited salad bar, a Coca-Cola, and a brownie for dessert. The total for ALL that ended up being $48.35. That's really cheap considering I had to be rolled out on a stretcher (joking). The most expensive item was the steak, in the $30-range but an unlimited salad bar for $4.95 and dessert for $6.95 can't be beat. The salad bar had everything you'd want in a salad bar with fresh veggies and toppings along with two soups, premade salads, and a sampling of sweet items like jello and fruit. I got 2 plates from the bar and two small bowls of soup. The steak and potato soup was good but the chicken soup was a bit salty for my taste. My steak and loaded potato was good and hit the spot. The potato was kind of dry, assuming it was a potato, already cooked hours ago and they just pulled it out to serve to me. After smothering it in butter and sour cream, the dryness disappeared. The steak was cooked medium rare, so no issues there but there was very little seasoning. I added salt and pepper to it, which made it a lot better. I wish it had a little bit more searing/char to it. I ended the meal with a brownie and ice cream, with caramel drizzle. The brownie was fairly large and warm, with a nice scoop of ice cream and ample ribbons of caramel sauce. It was really delicious and not too overly sweet! It definitely put me over the food coma edge. Service was good, but slow. My waitress explained to me that it was slow because a table of 39 people showed up, so she apologized. It didn't bother me though because I was so tired from working nearly 12 hours that day. I'm glad I supported local and my meal was definitely worth the price. read more

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First time in New Mexico...Food and ambiance was great!! Our server was super friendly as well!!

Hold on ... another road trip report? Yup, three members of the VA Creative Writing Group and three other authors traveled to Roswell, New Mexico, for an outreach program to read and discuss their writing at Eastern New Mexico University's Roswell campus. We spent the night and ate at what we think is the best overall restaurant in the city. No aliens were sighted, and we all ate well. Excellent beef served in a variety of ways (two outliers had salad). Excellent and friendly service. Nice interior dominated by the best salad bar in these there parts. Go ahead and click on the following YouTube link and see what we found delightful. And thanks again for the veterans' discount. Highly recommended. https://youtu.be/5XJuu3rfnbk?si=OUT0qQsS5G4PTiL- read more

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The service was okay, but the food lacked flavor and was disappointing. To make matters worse, the price listed on the menu did not match the amount charged on my final receipt. Overall, I was disappointed with my experience and did not feel it was worth the cost. Unfortunately, I would not recommend this restaurant. Safe Travels. Prost read more

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Really nice atmosphere, soft lighting and relaxing! Best meal out since the dawn of time! Everything at the salad bar was tantalizing to the tastebuds and the meals ordered did not disappoint! Everyone was very personable and pleasant! Philippe was our server and he felt like a long time friend! 10/10, highly recommend!! read more

Decent salad bar and steak was good. Not bad at all for a small town restaurant and the staff was very friendly. We ate here twice and both times the food came out cooked as it was ordered. read more

We always enjoy the ambience and salad bar when we come thru Roswell. The Green Chili was full of flavor. The service is attentive and has always been pleasant. read more

We haven't been to Cattle Baron in years, thought we'd give it another try last Sunday. Wow, it was not good at all. Service was mediocre- its 104 degrees outside and we don't get refills on our drinks? We both ordered the baron club steak (menu is very limited and prices outrageous). We both ordered the steaks medium. My husband's was very medium-rare and mine had no pink at all- both were tough. The salad bar is another $4.95 instead of it coming with your meal. Not worth it at all- no egg, no alfalfa sprouts, both soups weren't that good. The redeeming quality is the chocolate cake I took home. We try to support small business but its like Cattle Baron doesn't care. I get now why they're never busy. Texas Roadhouse gives you so much bang for your buck, and the steaks are excellent. They messed up mine once and they quickly fixed it because- the manager goes around and talks to the tables. read more

The food was good but I thought overpriced! Ribeye $32, sweet potato side (1/2 of one), coffee if I remember was $4.50. My waitress was fairly good but very gruff and I thought she was not a good fit for the position. I definitely didn't like their Tip Recommendation including tax (over$3.xx for me). I would not go back, just on that practice alone! That makes me tip even less actually. read more

Poor service and very dry beef, We were seated by the bar tender because the hostess was no where to be found. Then we sat in the both for 10 min before the server came to the table. Was my wife and I first and last time at this establishment read more

Excellent Green Chili stew! And robust salad bar in a rustic atmosphere. Excellent service as well. Can't recommend the green chili stew highly enough. Hope to be back soon! read more

Great salad bar, lots of choices and well stocked. Ribeye was salty but cooked to our request. Drinks were delicious. Service was quick and professional read more

Cattle Baron - Ribeye steak with baked sweet potato and salad bar - Steakhouses Near Me - Roswell, New Mexico

I am not a person who eats steak that often, and I was skeptical of this little regional chain before I walked in. As soon as I did, I was greeted by the massive salad bar with many tempting sides and veggies, and it seemed very well-maintained. Everyone in my party ordered something different. My husband got the ribs, my friend got the chicken fried steak and I opted for the Barrons Premium steak. While, I would say none of the dishes were particularly elevated cuisine. They were all perfectly executed and flavorful. We got to chat with the manager, who was very proud of his establishment and the Cattle Baron chain. The vibe was a normal steakhouse and it was clean and pleasant. read more

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It's a good looking restaurant but when we complained about their service, the manager was abusive and rude to this 70+ year old couple We walked out and would never go back. read more

We had a late afternoon dinner of steak, prime rib, and onion rings. The food was done to perfection. Our waitress was great! We highly recommend the Cattle Baron. read more

Cattle Baron - Prime Rib with onion rings. - Steakhouses Near Me - Roswell, New Mexico

We get to the restaurant for them to tell us they have no shrimp, salmon, etc. 15 mins after we ordered. They mixed up our order multiple times. Undercooked steaks and multiple wrong items on our order. The service was decent but disappointing for 200$. Will definitely not go again, and hopefully if you go you have a better experience. read more

When we walked in there was an extremely foul odor that reminded me of sewage backup. We waited 20 minutes to be seated. When we were seated the room only had one other occupied table. Why did we have to wait? I ordered the French dip when it arrived half the au jus was slopped on the plate making everything soggy before I could take a bite. I sent it back and received another plate with au jus not spilled everywhere. The meat was impossible to chew!! The waitress was the only bright spot of my visit. read more

Best rib eye I have had in a long time. Salad bar was well stocked with lots of options including soup and dessert. A couple of hiccups with the service. However, overall a wonderful dinner! read more

Amazing! We were in town for the ufo festival and were delighted to find this steak house. We got cocktails and steaks, along with their huge salad bar. The wait staff was very sweet, friendly, and accommodating. It was comfortable with giant booths. for Roswell! read more

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The steak and drinks were good, the salad bar was amazing? and the service was spectacular! Highly recommend it!

This place is Not what it used to be Was in Ruidoso Cattle Baron it was great clean not run down like this place The restrooms at so ghetto Get new stalls don't just keep place new hinges and latches Plus the smell Food just canned and frozen read more

We had the prime rib with the salad bar. The food was delicious and presented beautifully. The salad bar had a fine selection of favorites for a garden salad, but was also surprised by some desserts. Banana pudding, you can never go wrong! Our server, Terry, was excellent. Attentive enough to keep the drinks full and make sure we were satisfied at all time. Kudos to Terry, he's the best! The ambience of the restaurant was not flashy or trashy. Just for regular people looking for a good meal. Would recommend every day! read more

Had been a long time since I had come here, and I was desperate for a good steak so I decided to try them again. The peppered steak was fantastic. The salad bar is about the same, they no longer have the cheese that sat out overnight on it but they sometimes don't have carrots or cucumbers and the onion is giant rings instead of little pieces that would make sense for a salad. I've gotten the blackened chicken a couple times, it was good. The rio pollo was a bit salty. Bread can be fresh or stale, it's consistently inconsistent. Price is a little bit high, service has been mostly good, and Fetch routinely deals with points there of 30-90 points per dollar spent read more

Now this place is a Gem! I absolutely loved this place. This isn't your typical steak restaurant as there is an abundance in selections to choose from. Did you happen to check out the photo of the amazing salad bar!!! The decor was awesome and had the old time feel! Our waitress was on top of her service! And the steak, wow! It was so tender and flavorful. Probably the best I've had in a while. If your down in Roswell, be sure to stop at the restaurant. You will have an amazing experience. read more

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An old looking building, a bit pricey, service was okay because I had to ask for my bread that is suppose to come with my steak. My Dos Equis did not come with a lime (oh well). The ribeye was cooked to perfection and wow! Yummy. Wife was very happy with her scampi Overall, I would come back and may try the filet mignon. read more

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One Star Is Too Generous - A Health Code Violation Waiting to Happen If you're looking for the culinary equivalent of disappointment served with a side of grime, this place delivers in spades. From the moment you walk in, you're greeted not with hospitality, but with the lingering scent of grease and decades of neglect. The floors are sticky, the tables are worse, and you'll start questioning your life choices before your water even arrives--which might take a while. The service is agonizingly slow, and when your food finally shows up, it's an insult to your taste buds and to dining in general. The steaks are bargain-bin quality--think Walmart's cheapest cuts--and the cooks clearly haven't mastered the basics of temperature or seasoning. If you're craving flavor, you'll have better luck licking a saltine. And let's not even start on the drinks. Watered down and overpriced, they're a cruel joke that adds to the overall misery. It's as if someone tried to recreate a bar scene using only expired ingredients and broken dreams. This place is a relic of bad decisions. It looks like it hasn't been properly cleaned since the 90s. Dust coats the décor, the bathrooms are questionable at best, and you'd swear the building itself is on a slow decline into collapse. To call this a restaurant is generous. Even Texas Roadhouse, which is no fine dining experience, feels like a five-star resort compared to this ghetto dive. Cheap food, lazy service, and a filth factor that should have the health inspector on speed dial--this is the kind of place that fuels the obesity epidemic while killing your appetite at the same time. Summary: Avoid this dump unless you're conducting a study on failed hospitality or trying to build immunity to foodborne illness. Save your time, money, and dignity. read more

1st. Had 6 people and they only had five silver ware 2nd no drink menu was provided 3rd. Wanted to split a prime rib and asked if they could cook 1/2 medium rare and other half medium on the largest on menu Wait staff said they did not know and would not check Charged for two teas when only one was ordered Salad plate was tiny for a salad bar for one Did not provide a cup for soup Did not provide instructions that it was only for one trip, or was it only for one trip Bake potato was tiny and had to Ask for butter Prime rib had little flavor This why you have poor ratings read more

They were very accommodating of my allergies. They use vegetable oil with soybean in it, so a lot was off the table. They cleaned the grill to make my steak. Steak was okay. Husband enjoyed his food greatly. Said bread was delicious. Kind staff. read more

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This was a pleasant change up on our Carlsbad Caverns roadtrip. Our server Deborah was awesome, the interior retains classy western steakhouse vibes that you don't see in chain spots since the 90s. Their salad bar had a really great selection, and as a $5 entree addon is great deal! My prime rib was excellent, perfectly medium rare and felt like a generous 12oz. Kiddo loved his sirloin, and my dad enjoyed his Steak New Mexico. The green chili wontons were tasty although you already get so much food I'm not sure we needed appetizers. I would absolutely come here again if we find ourselves back in Roswell read more

We stopped into Cattle Baron for a steak while visiting town, and were a little disappointed with the meal. The steaks didn't seem to be great quality to us and weren't cooked very close to what we requested. The mashed potatoes were decent and the steak fries, while good, were closer to potato wedges. We both enjoyed the Alien Amber that was on tap, and the service was good and prompt. The restaurant interior is nicely decorated with plenty of room. read more

Cattle Baron - Baron club - Steakhouses Near Me - Roswell, New Mexico

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QUALITY OF SERVICE is Not a PRIORITY HERE! They push the salad bar. #1 profit and you wait on yourself. If you dare risk the 100 people who have handled the serving spoons before you. We chose to order from the menu. We have been to this Cattle Baron in Roswell many times for years and always loved it. Hadn't been there in 6 months or so. Went in for a Sunday lunch at approximately 12:30 1/11/26 We were seated quickly. Evidently the waitress was on break where we were seated and it took 15 minutes or so for her to come take our drink order. She apologized. We had to ask later after several minutes of waiting for bread. Both my husband and I ordered the small prime rib. We were notified that only Well done and Med Well were available. We prefer med rare but took the Med well My husbands prime rib was okay but mostly a lot of hard crust and fat. His baked potato was small and dry. My prime rib was terrible. It didn't even resemble prime rib. It was thin and flat like a sirloin and curled up at one end. Very Well done hard and dry. I was going to make the best of it. I never return food. My husband insisted and sent it back for another. Management came over and said there was nothing else available. The only thing they could do is soak it in Au Jus to add moisture and that would take 20-30 minutes. They offered a rib eye but that would take about 20 minutes. The rest of us had already finished their meal. I wasn't going to make them sit around for 30-45 minutes while I waited on my food and to eat I just asked them to take it off my bill. I had ordered coffee and in all of this the waitress told me twice she would bring coffee and never did. We had to ask for bread twice it was never offered. Everyone working seems very young Quality of service is not a priority here any longer. We will find another restaurant in Roswell to enjoy. read more

We were traveling through Roswell and decided to stop here for a steak and we walked in and they said it was going to be a 45 min wait for 2 people and half the restaurant was empty. We ended up going to Texas Roadhouse and they were packed but we were seated immediately and the service was amazing so maybe Cattle Baron can take some notes from them on how to run a restaurant. read more

Come on, Cattle Baron, surely you can do better! Bread served first was old, crusty, not in a good way, stale. Ordered Shrimp Scampi with Caesar Salad, broccoli for the side. Romaine lettuce in salad was literally brown. Waiter said, yes, we noticed that in the kitchen, just get yourself another salad at the salad bar. OK then. Meal comes. Plate is cold, so is the broccoli, won't even melt the "butter" that came with the stale bread. Pasta under the shrimp is cold and tasteless (garlic wine sauce???) Shrimp is almost room temp. Husband had the shrimp, fried, waaay too long, and a baked potato that looked half eaten when he got it. Again, the potato wasn't even warm enough to melt the "butter". This was a special occasion for us, and the $80. we dropped for a very unacceptable meal made the evening a disappointment. There was literally nothing about either of our meals that was good. This is our third try at Cattle Baron. Three strikes, you're out. read more

They were busy when we walked in, but asked to sit at bar. We waited for 10 minutes for someone at the bar to talk to us. Grace was given because it was clear that they were busy, but there was a strong sewage smell throughout that was hard to get past. We ended up decided to head out because the smell was so strong. A bar tender did approach us as we were leaving, but we told her we were heading out. The building owner should address the sewage smell immediately. We tried to go back in July as well, but someone leaving told us that the smell was bad, so our group made a plan B. We thought we would give it another try tonight, but not with that smell. read more

Cattle Baron was one of the few sit-down restaurants we had for dinner time and boy does this place get packed! I can tell you that I was surprised and happy that they have a full-size salad bar that was open to feast on. All of our entire table each ordered the side of salad bar because why not? We haven't seen any of these places in so long that we were just wanting it badly. The salad bar had different types of cold salad, soups, and also a wide variety of fresh raw vegetables! Total fan right off the bat. Come to our dinner menu items they were heavy large portions and most of us couldn't finish it since we had the salad bar first. Most of the table got prime rib with a side of your choice I picked the baked potato because that's usually my favorite. But try some of my friend's onion rings and those were amazing! A must if you haven't picked a side yet. The service was friendly and nice, overall we had a fun time here and would always remember this place as the one with the salad bar. read more

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This place was fantastic! The service was great, the salad bar excellent. So happy to have stumbled onto it.

Great service love the salad bar steaks weren't that great but the prices were good. Lots of choices on the menu.

Big place! Roswell doesn't have many good options or variety of food options, but they do have a few really good places. Cattle Baron was one of them. We got the salad bar and I got the prime rib, also. The prime rib was very tender and good. It's been a while since I've had one. The rice pilaf it came with and the bread , however, wasn't all that great. That was probably the only negative part about the food. I'd probably pass on both next time. The salads bar is great!!!! Haven't been to one since pre COVID times and I don't even think many exist anymore. I would go a million times just for the salad bar :) Good options! The service was nice, too. I don't know if all servers were like ours, but she was wonderful! Direct and honest. I tried to order a local cider and she steered me in a different direction hahahah. I did get a taster just in case....and I agree with her on the change hahahah Overall 4 stars but given the location and options it's a 5 read more

Great service and awesome food! I was staying at the Fairfield next door and just needed a nice meal on my journey.

Excellent food, service, and ambience. Our second visit and it exceeded our first. When in Roswell, don't miss the Cattle Baron. read more

Cattle Baron - Steakhouses Near Me - Roswell, New Mexico