This place has, by far, the most polite servers I've ever met. Very, very charming. Add to that some very tasty food and I truly wish this place was closer to my home. We have been there several times and keep coming back for the food and the hospitality. Not being much of a red meat eater, I adore the turkey here. And the sides are fantastic. I've never done desert here, but the mounds of meringue showing up with pie at the tables next too us were truly inspiring! read more

I LOVE this place. Its out in the "middle of nowhere" but I would drive the hour to get here! The atmosphere is perfect! This is genuine food, with genuine service. Everyone is so friendly and cares about your dining experience. The ribs, the brisket, the corn are all EXCELLENT. The chocolate pie taste just like my Great Great Aunt used to make, and it has the largest meringue you have ever seen. There is nothing generic about this place. Someone put time and effort into your meal. read more

Unfortunately this landmark burned down but owners say they will rebuild. There were so many original, autographed photos of Quarter Horse legends that were lost. I hope the trainers will decorate the walls again with all the "greats". We will be standing by.... read more

I am really unsure how they continue to get on shows like Diners, D & D. Have eaten there twice and disappointed both times. Brisket was cut in pot roast size chunks and extremely dry. Chicken fried steak was flavorless. The best thing on the plate was the canned peach. Don't drive there if you don't live there! read more

New building and open for business again. They have a limited menu of old standbys and promise to add back the missing features soon. I had the two meat plate with brisket and sausage. Both were well smoked and tasty. I had the roasted corn and coleslaw as sides and both were excellent. My wife had a brisket sandwich and ate every bit. We each had one of the offered desserts. Mine was the Pecan Cobbler with Ice Cream and she had Kim's Bread Pudding with Ice Cream. I thoroughly enjoyed mine but a taste of the bread pudding was heavenly. I am really glad that they worked through the process to reopen. I will definitely be back. read more

Service is always slow and mildly rude. Food is decent but nothing special. Their side selection is a joke for a BBQ joint. One positive thing is that their atmosphere is cool.... read more

Great food. Great history. Never know eho you might run in to from Randy Travis to Alice Cooper. We love Ckarks

Went to the Tioga car show/chili cook off. The show and chili cook off was a bust so we thought we would try Clark's BBQ since it was right there. Wish we had drove back to Sherman to the Rib Crib. 1st off like one other post said "NO Sweet Tea" ... What? No sweet tea in a BBQ joint in Texas? No real sugar for my tea, no Truvia, no NutraSweet only Option was Sweet & Low. We ordered turkey sandwiches, they where good, but nothing special for the price. We shared an order of fries that where awful, limp and not cooked enough. The place is filthy, I looked around at the chairs and they are covered with dust. Wondered if I needed to dust my back side off when I got up! Noticed the hostess standing around or sitting down most of the time doing nothing. Really wanted to hand her a rag and tell her to clean the chairs! The service was weird, 3 different people asked about getting a drink order including the hostess. An older woman with no front teeth came by and asked if we needed anything else. She saw that I had little of my sandwich left and asked if something was wrong with it. I said no it was fine I've just had enough. You'd think she would have caught the fact that I said "fine" not "Great" or even "Good". She didn't say anything about all those soggy French fries we left behind. After we finished I took my napkin and wiped the back edge of my chair. Yep, you guessed it. It was filthy! For $23.21 we won't ever go back there. read more

Food is Not good and we will not go there again. Not worth the drive. On a normally busy day for a restaurant only 4 others there. If you want better barbecue, then do a google search and read ratings. After we got back home and did this, we saw others shared Similar experience... Yukconfirming it was an inferior one review helps others learn about great local businesses. Please don't review this business if you received a freebie for writing this review, or if you're connected in any way to the owner or employees. read more

I have lived in dallas since the late 80's and I just heard about Clark's a couple weeks ago. I wish I had not heard about it. I checked the web site. Menu on the web site does not match the menu at the store. Lamb fries were in the website and are not on the store menu. It is either the old bait and switch...or people just don't care. I ordered a combination plate with ribs and brisket. OVER $21.00 for this!! Spring Creek is $12.99 and was twice as good. Rib meat should have to be gently pulled to get a clean bone. This stuff was dried out, tough, and you could not get the meat off the bone with your teeth. The brisket was dry. Sauce was flavorful, but the sauce is kept on the table and they try to keep it warm. My guess is that there is not a health department in Tioga! The health department would know that bad stuff grows between 45-100 degrees. If it is gonna be hot, it needs to be above 155 degrees in order to kill the bad stuff. The service sucks. No one was in a uniform. I spoke to two waiters and no one had chef's knowledge about the food. No one came to do a quality check on the food. No one pre-bussed our table. Got a drink refill once, but went dry most of the time. If there was an old man/woman named Clark back in 76 when they opened, she/he is not round anymore and would be upset with the condition. Kitchen was filthy. Lead based paint is falling off the walls in the dining room. And while some might find that colorful, this is possibly the dirtiest restaurant I have ever been in. Everyone appreciates a little throwback, but they ought to shut down for a month and deep clean and paint and repair that place. I would not go back in current condition. My motorcycle club will not be stopping here. In summary: 1. Food was less than average. Spring Creek and even Dickey's are better BBQ products, 2. Web site sucks and was not truthful. 3. Place is filthy. 4. Service sucks. 5. Price is way too high. I was excited to hear about this. But what a waste of 2 hours that I will never get back. read more

What a great old place! I hope they never change a thing. Try the French fried corn on the cob, the beef and ribs were great! Hush puppies were great! read more

Let me start by saying that this place does NOT serve sweet tea.... so I knew as soon as the waitress said no sweet tea it was all down hill from there and boy was I right!!! So, its a beautiful sunny windy day here in TX and I thought lets take a ride up to Tioga and have some bbq, I should have stayed on the couch. Anyhoo, we start our 1.5hr ride and make it up there no problems. We pull up and there are about 8 vehicles in the p/l, so I say great there should be no wait and food should be on the table in no time?? Well, since we brought the dog we had to sit outside, so when my wife went in to tell them we would be outside they said "we really are not supposed to let u out there since its not summer time".... good thing I was not the one being told that!! So the wife ordered some appetizers and I took the dog for a bathroom break, I get back and NO appetizers yet?? I asked whats going on when the waitress finally comes outside, she says "they are soooooo busy she forgot about us outside", I placed our main order and prayed all would be ok from that point on... well, my prayer must have been put on hold cause the whole thing just got worse by the minute!! Appetizers were delivered, main course was FINALLY brought out after 20min and the excuse I got again was due to how overwhelmed they were... I walked inside and half the tables were empty, so I thought damn, good thing I did not actually come on a BUSY day or else I would have to have gone across the street to the motel for a room.... Food was ok, nothing special, I know u are going to think its mean of me to say but I would have been better off going to SONIC for a bbq burger, OR anywhere else for that matter!!! maybe it was just an off day for them but I will NOT be making a special trip out that way any time soon, the service was horrible, and the food was no better than any other fast food establishment with like kind items.... End note, when we were suiting up to ride out we noticed a large group outside on the patio wanting to sit, we just thought to ourselves, GOOD LUCK SUCKERS!!!! read more

The ribs were good. More on that in a minute. I found the place clean including the bathroom. We were a small group of 3 and the service was good, lots of offers for more tea. The order was obviously put in timely and our food was out within expectations. The food was good, not world class. My only complaint is a service oriented one. The 2 meat combo is $18. I pointed at it on the menu, and said out loud, "I want the 2 meat combo with turkey and ribs." I had not noticed that ribs weren't listed on the meats available with the 2 meat combo. But the server said, "OK" and, in a few minutes, here came my 2 meat combo with turkey and ribs. The surprise came with the bill. Because what I'd inadvertently ordered was a rib plate $22 and "add turkey" bringing the total to $25. This was on the opposite side of the menu I was pointing at. Throw in tea and tip and I had myself a $32 lunch. I was pretty upset. So beware, because the server may not tell you... the ribs are not available on the 2 meat plate. The server should have told me about my ordering snafu while I was pointing and ordering the 2 meat plate. Just sayin'. I'll pass on this place in the future. read more

It really pains me to write this - nobody likes to have a horrible restaurant experience. It was and is a Complete disappointment. Given the longevity of the business I was anticipating a great Texas BBQ find - ah that would be a big NO GO. I sat where, unfortunately, I could see a man microwaving everything - I watched in horror as they were microwaving chicken fried steak, BBQ plates, french fries just about everything - you name it - the dude doing this looked horrible - did not give one the air of confidence one wants to see in the cook staff (dirty and nasty) wiping his nose on his hands ...eeew I digress. The toast is not Texas toast but mere grocery store (stale) bread. The whole thing was horrible - I ordered a BBQ Chopped sandwich was looked really odd it was kind of fluffed up looked like sawdust :O - totally devoid of any flavor unless you go for that freezer reheated in a microwave taste - I really don't see how these folks are still in business. HORRIBLE - EXPENSIVE - VERY BAD SERVICE- A SHAME TO SAY IT IS TEXAS BBQ. STAY AWAY - When I was checking out they asked How was it I refused to comment they pushed the question again and again - Soooo I commented that I watched this guy microwave continually microwaving everything - and they why yes we freeze it then reheat - but it is all cooked on the grill/smoker ....WFT!?!? Like that's ok...NOT - STAY AWAY FAR AWAY read more

This place screams 'small town bbq joint'. Food was really enjoyable. Kids portions were enormous, fries were great, gravy and Texas toast were addictive. Loved the BBQ sauce and also the meat. Had apple pie ala mode and the scoop of ice cream was huge, pie was delicious. Jan was our server, she was a sweetheart, taking time to talk to us a bit about the town and the restaurant. It truly is a blast from the past, really can't wait to visit again. read more

This was our first but not last visit. We had lunch, including tea and 1 piece of coconut pie. $22+ tip. The BBQ beef was some of the best we've tasted in several years. Cole slaw and peas good too. Rustic atmosphere but what do you expect for a town named Tioga! read more

i love the old tyme decor of clarks. i tried the lamb fries which was delicious, (sorry little lamb for eating your balls) i had a chopped brisket sandwich, greens and beans. the sanwich was ok but skimpy on the meat, i didnt like the greens they tasted canned, the beans was ok. it was a bit overpriced too. read more

I hadn't been to Clark's in years and nothing had changed-literally. It was dirty and dusty and had a pretty uninviting atmosphere. At 6pm on a Friday night it was empty of diners. Had the center cut ribs and they were dry and way too chewy. The potato salad was tasteless and I could tie the pickle in a knot. There were even no dessert pies! Used to love coming here for the great ribs, but I think they're way past their sell by date. read more

I have never understood the mystique of this place, every time we stop (typically out of desperation) I come away disappointed. The interior is probably the first thing you notice, I'm ok with "old" but this place just looks "old and dirty" the service is marginal, the sides are straight out of a can, and the BBQ is just "MEH" with high prices. I think what is missing in the operation of Clark's is PRIDE, no one seems toc are about anything, if the food were exceptional, maybe we could overlook it, but everything from decor to the food, sides and prices, is just marginal. If they don't care, then I don't care to patronize them any more than I do. If you are headed north, skip Tioga and a few miles north is Collinsville and Pirate Island, the food is to die for. read more

absolute worst service available, we arrived at 530 p and recd food at 710p. Spoke with manager and apology given, but would never go back. Most of order was forgotten, drinks served 45min after arrival, never checked on. Food was just ok, nothing special. read more

Over rated & over priced because of it! Not bad, just not what the reputation gives it credit for. I'm from the area & I haven't eaten there in years (locals not as keen as visiters), so we tried it again- meh! I'd rather drive to Denton & get the same quality brisket, but eat in a building that is cleaner (lots of dust :-() & alot more fun to sit in. I think Clark's is still riding high from a reputation that is long overdue for a revision. There's a lot of places out there serving better brisket AND giving a better overall experience. Think about a patio or something, maybe update to the 21st century. Just sayin'... read more

What a joke. Rude, food is below average. Portions small, but what really erks me is how unappreciative almost every employee is. Don't get me wrong, if the food is good I can put up with rude employees. Brisket dry, fries soggy, sides are average, chicken fried steak tasteless. Sorry but the truth hurts. This is my second and last time. read more