A long-established local restaurant with good food and good atmosphere. Our waiter Miguel did a great job of making us feel welcome, and our steaks were cooked well and tastefully seasoned. The standout side dish for me was the sauteed mushrooms, with plenty of minced garlic in a white wine sauce. Many of the staff were young and recently trained, but all were working hard. In a town like Ruidoso, labor is very tight, costs are high, and the customers often come in large, hard-to-handle parties, all packed into high-season rush hour. So five stars in Ruidoso doesn't mean "perfect", it means "as good as possible, given the constraints they have to work with". Folks are all doing their best, so I try to do my part by planning ahead, making reservations, and bringing my best self. read more

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The food was so good ! The Ribeye 10/10 and the fried jalapeño sticks were so good ! Our server Miguel was really nice and frequently approached us to make sure we had everything we needed. We were seated pretty quickly upon arriving and the ambiance was nice and brightly lit. I would go back :) read more

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Been coming here since I was a teenager, 30 years and it has become a wreck. Broke my heart, what a history this place has, our absolute favorite restaurant in Ruidoso! From the burnt dinner rolls to the terribly over cooked filet, not to mention waiting 30 minutes (after having drinks and a salad) for the first overcooked steak. Pasta was cold and standing in water. I'm completely done with this place. read more

OVERALL Texas Club was great RATING BREAKDOWN Food: 5 | Service: 4.5 | Ambiance: 4 | Price: 4 PARKING The lack of parking and terrible parkers at 7:30PM on Saturday night. LOCATION/AMBIANCE Getting to this place feels like you're driving to a friend's house as it's in the middle of what seemed like a semi-rural neighborhood. The tall pines and sunset-cooled air was a treat. My girls loved all the Western memorabilia, Texas flags, & rustic light fixtures. The booth we sat in was surprisingly comfortable. It was a bit warm inside. THE GRUB + Complimentary bread rolls. My daughters loved them. + Smokey & the Bandit, a whiskey cocktail ($10) + Cocktail shrimp appetizer ($15) + House salad with fresh ground pepper from a battery-operated grinder... (included with steak dinner) + Medium rare Cattleman's ribeye steak ($40) + Jack Daniels Caramel Sundae ($8) LITTLE YELPER'S CLUB + Kid's Alfredo pasta ($6) + Kid's shrimp plate ($9) + Dr. Pepper ($3) + Sprite ($3) SERVICE A little slow to get to us at first, but after that no problems. Our waitress Kim was friendly & efficient. MY FAVORITE PART... My ribeye. It was not over-seasoned. Cooked medium rare as I requested. NOT SO FAVORITE PART... The parking lot. (See above.) TIP Make reservations through the OpenTable app. read more

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Always get reservations to be seated immediately. Bartender makes wonderful Palomas. Best Caesar salad in town. Service was fast & friendly. From the top of the menu to the bottom, the food is always delicious! Try the coconut shrimp! The chicken fry is a plate covering masterpiece. Worth going to multiple nights!!! read more

Would return! The place is fun, but slow & overpriced - AS IS EVERYTHING IN RUIDOSO, who cares! Live music, huge patio, 3 big TVs. We are happy customers read more

We arrived 10 minutes early for our reservation. We were seated quickly and given menus. A server brought us "hot" bread and butter. The bread was not hot and had a stale crust. Our server came to the table 5 minutes later with menus. 5 minutes later she took our drink order. 10 minutes after that we placed our appetizer order. Our first round of drinks came 10 minutes later. 14 minutes later our appetizer arrived. We ordered 10 minutes later. I could continue but let's just say our food arrived 1 hour later. I had to go to the bar and order drinks myself. 3 of the 4 orders were eatable, mine was over cooked and ineatable. The manager never came out of the kitchen even though we ask to speak with him. Sadly, this happen to us at Casa Blanca (same owners) the last time we ate there. read more

Texas Club has gone downhill. Positives- steak, appetizers, drinks are great. Negatives- Hostess is horrible. Had a reservation for party of 8, but she still acted like she was doing us a favor to seat us at a table that holds 8, not 6. Reservation was at 530, left at 815. The waitress was very nice, but obviously overwhelmed. Used to enjoy coming here for a great steak, but never again. read more

I had come here several times. There is a shrimp dish they have that my husband and I really like, to the point we experimented and figured out how to make it ourselves. Glad we did, because we won't be going back. Today, we were seated in the bar area. We had never been in that part of the restaurant before. As we were eating, I noticed the five flags hanging over the bar. One was a confederate flag. It dawned on me they were going for a "six flags over texas" thing, but left out Mexico. If you like your food with a side of racism and glorification of slavery, this is your place. read more

Very dissatisfied with the whole experience. We walked in with a larger party. There was an older lady that greeted us in the reception desk (short, white hair) who seemed to be very upset that we did not make a reservation and even said she was going to see if she could accommodate us. This should have been red flag 1. No welcome or a smile, nothing. Food is definitely overpriced for the quality to be honest. There was nothing special and we all got several meals. Also, we noticed many of the people dining were portraying racism which was shocking to see, including the receptionist. Our party kept getting gnarly looks from white parties which made the experience very uncomfortable. I would recommend to stay away from this one. Nothing great about it. As we were leaving, we said thank you to that older receptionist and she did not even turn around when she said welcome. read more

I went last night I got a ribeye steak bone in. I have never had a $50 ribeye with no fat in it. It looked like a New York steak not a ribeye. I asked the waitress and she said they didn't have New York steaks bone in. So I concluded it must be the a special type of ribeye that is not tender or have fat. It sucked I am very disappointed. The coconut shrimp was amazing though. read more

Dinner for eight! The service was good considering we had a reservation was as expected. All our steaks from the bone in ribeye down to the kids steak were excellent! The crust and seasoning on the steaks were well done, great cook and a chefs kiss! The ambience and views were nice, very clean restaurant. read more

Texas Club - Dinner for eight, The steaks we ordered were cooked evenly and were seasoned very well the crust and taste of flame was there - Steakhouses Near Me - Ruidoso, New Mexico

Good thing we arrived five minutes after opening because the parking lot was filling up fast! "You hit the jackpot" were her exact words as we had just watched a lady ahead of us be told that her party of 5 could not be seated because she had not made reservations. We, also, had not made reservations, so we felt really fortunate when she said she happened to have a table for two. For those interested in history: This place was built in the 60's as a private residence, but in the early 70's was purchased by Dale Robertson (tv actor, Ben Calhoun in "Iron Horse", '66-'68). He bought it for a place for his Texas friends to hangout when they came to Ruidoso for horse racing. He christened it "The Texas Club" and charged $1.00 to become a member. After several changes of ownership and officially becoming a steak house, it's now considered one of Ruidoso's premier eating establishments. We ordered the Shrimp cocktail for a starter - 5 Jumbo Shrimp with cocktail sauce ($13.). They were indeed huge and fresh. The cocktail sauce was excellent, but beware it has quite a bite to it! I'd suggest a small sample first so as not to overwhelm your olfactory system, ha! (Seriously!) For my entree I ordered their "Wrangler's Ribeye", a 16oz aged, marbled cut of beef, cooked medium ($37.). I chose sweet potato fries and their green chile cream corn as my sides. The steak was cooked perfectly but I found their pepper seasoning a little overwhelming. The sweet potato fries were delicious and the green chile cream corn was nothing short of amazing! You must get this (thank me later) :). Our server was polite, courteous, and friendly. There's live music on Fridays and Saturdays. We had a great meal and wonderful experience. I'd highly recommend you check them out when visiting Ruidoso - and don't forget to make reservations! Hours are: Monday: 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm Tuesday - Wednesday: Closed Thursday: 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm Friday - Saturday: 5:00 pm - 8:30 pm Sunday: 9:00 am - 1:00 pm 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm https://www.texasclubruidoso.com read more

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It took 2 hours for our food to come our without a waiter even coming to check in on us before we had to leave due to it taking so long! Atmosphere is terrible and loud . Service is awful. This restaurant has potential in the right hands. Really hope to see if they can some how get into new ownership and turn this around. Seriously not even exaggerating worst restaurant I've ever been to. read more

With a great meal we started with Texas dice cubes of ribeye steak battered and fried served with cream gravy. Crispy on the outside tender on the inside it was a nice treat. Caesar salad and the entree we both had the elk tenderloin. It was so good peppered and melted in our mouth. Served with a loaded baked potato reasonably priced. The restaurant was busy so service was a bit off but the waiter tried his best. read more

This is a really nice restaurant in Ruidoso that requires reservations. I came here for my birthday dinner on a Friday night, and there was live music. We had the Texas toothpicks for an appetizer, which was a huge plate of deep-fried jalapeños with cheese. We had the St. Patrick's Day special cocktail, which was the green midori melon cocktail. I had the shrimp celina pasta, and it was tasty and a good level of spiciness. I had it with a caesar salad. They brought me the Philo's favorite fudge cake for a free birthday dessert. The cake was very rich and chocolatey. My friend says the key lime martini is a delicious dessert drink, and service was very good. read more

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Just finished "what I could" of a nice dinner. Ordered the "Wrangler Ribeye" priced at $40. It was a terrible cut of cheap meat. Tough and a ton of gristle in the steak. I ate maybe a 1/3 of the steak. Will not be going back. Sad... this place used to be great. read more

We got a reservation for 9 arrived at 7:15 were sat immediately. Water came quickly however other beverages took 15-20 minutes. We placed our food order around 7:45. Salads did not arrive until 8:15, our food did not come out until 9:05pm. The restaurant closes at 8:30pm. So many tables around us were getting their food late. If you have new cooks forewarn people so they don't waste their time waiting and can go somewhere else. The waitress tried her best to assure us but the food was subpar driest burger, 3-5 fries on the plate. read more

Service was great. Food was not. The quality of the food has gone considerably downhill from the last time we were there. We hope they can get back to what they used to be. Ambiance was nice though. read more

We made a reservation at 7:15 for a party of 9 and they didn't seat us until 7:50. It took 15 minutes for any server to even come over. We didn't get our drinks for 45 minutes after reminding them twice. Then we ordered appetizers of just chips and didn't get those for over an hour and a half. Then once we were there for almost three hours we asked the manager and she said they barely rung our food up and it would be another 30-45 minutes. So after 3 hours we got no food and left. read more

horrible service, we were a party of 9 and we had a reservation for 7:15 and we didn't get sat till 7:50 we then waited 45 minutes just for salads even though we had placed our order when we had originally sat, we asked for the manager and she said that the ticket for our food was "delayed" and they hadn't started making it. We sat and waited for almost 2 hours until we got tired of waiting for overpriced food and left don't come here it's so bad and they need to improve and train staff better asap read more

Where do I start? First off, we had our reservation for 7:15. We weren't seated until 7:45. We ordered a coke and it took 30 minutes to bring out. We also ordered chips which took 30 minutes to come out. Once we had been waiting for our food for 1 hour we addressed the issue to the manager and she told us 30 minutes more would be the wait time, and said they just put our ticket in an hour after waiting. As we were waiting another table started arguing with us. The manager asked us to leave because she heard we were going to leave a negative review for the wait time. So we waited an hour an a half for nothing. Steer far clear from this place the service is awful. They over booked there tables and backed up the kitchen. read more

Steak Over-seasoned,veggies over cooked,great waiter. Texas Denny's. Our waiter was on point despite the fact that he had so many other tables. read more

Went there hungry wanting a good steak after a full day of snowboarding. Showed up to the restaurant and they refused to seat me since I didn't have a reservation and was a single diner. It looked like there was plenty of tables available too. They were rude AF and it also smelled bad in there. I say good riddance, and they saved me the $ and trouble. read more

Horrendous. Don't go here. Horrible service. All of the staff members are incompetent and food takes more than 2 hours and a talk with the manager to come out. read more

waited 2 hours for our food . when we finally got it . it was cold. service was poor and food was worse . will never go back and would not recommend Texas club to anyone. read more

We dined at Texas Club on April 6th, with a party of 13. We had a variety of menu items and have to say, every steak was grilled to perfection, pasta was flavorful, and in a light garlic butter sauce which was so tasty. Appetizers, Salads, everything was great! Every one of our 13 including grandparents to kids was full and happy! Service was impeccable as well. Couldn't have asked for any better! read more

Just went to this EMPTY restaurant. We had 6 people with us and were told that they didn't have any room to seat our party because it was too many people. read more

This used to be one of our favorites. It's really gone downhill. The service was decent, but the food was awful. It was too much trouble to check what kinds of Chardonnay they had (La Crema Sonoma Coast or Monterey -the bad one!) Got rolls - sorta warm - reordered with our food - so they'd be hot - she brought extra cold/hard ones! My hamburger steak ordered medium was well done - my wife's scallops were under cooked wrapped in raw bacon. They remade the scallops -overcooked tough & inedible. The waitress was apologetic but said the manager was unavailable or he might have comped it. Paid the full bill & tipped extra due to the fires - but going somewhere else next time. read more

Great customer service! I had a filet that was excellent, my husband had a Wrangler ribeye that was a little tough. The cheesecake was very good. read more

Had reservations for Sat and they would not seat a party of two. So we tried on a Monday night and got seated but couldn't get our order in over an hour. Had to to leave and will never come back!! God Bless Donald Trump!! read more

Food was great. Live music on Sat was good but what a buzz kill. Let's speed it up a little.

I've always enjoyed going to the Texas club. Even though I live in El Paso I look forward to having a steak there they do a magnificent job with your steaks and the atmosphere is fantastic truly probably the best steakhouse in Ruidoso hands-down. The only frustrating thing that will take a star away from my review is the fact if you live in El Paso no one seems to answer the phone and you get that message you've heard 1000 times the person you were trying to contact has a mail box that has not been set up how do you do that with a restaurant that needs people to make reservations?? read more

This place is huge! Texas sized right. It's a steak joint and does a nice job at it. The price is reasonable for what they offer. We got the chicken fried steak and the Texas tenders. The steak filled the platter. It had to be at least a 12 ouncer. The gravy was spot on as well as the mashed potatoes. The Texas tenders were four split chicken breast pieces with potatoes and gravy. Both huge portions for a very reasonable price. The service was impeccable. read more

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Without a shadow of a doubt the absolute and utterly worst restaurant I have ever had the displeasure of going to. This restaurant if, you can even call it that, is nothing like the photos that are shown on the internet. It was a pig-sty inside, and the ambiance is terrible, it was as loud as a lunch hall full of third graders. Unfortunately, that's just touching the tip of the iceberg. The part where this restaurant really falls short, and I mean falls shorter than a Burger King, is their service. It's honestly offensive that service could be that bad. Our waitress, whom it seemed like it was her first day on the job could barely get our order together. Not only that, we had to ask multiple times for our appetizers and drinks to be brought out which took over a half hour to come out. This, all happened while one of the simplest dishes to make in culinary history, a Caesar salad, took 45 minutes. Which was supposed to be one of the complementary dishes of our main course. Which might I add, I was unable to get to enjoy, because of how excruciatingly long it took for them to even get our order to the kitchen. Furthermore, once we complained to the trashy unapologetic manager, all she could muster up was a discount and that our food might come out in the next half our which to put into perspective, it was already 9:15 at night, and we had been there since 7:15, which isn't even the time we were able to get seated because this restaurant is thoroughly in love with delays so we had to wait an extra 30 minutes to actually get seated after having a reservation. Due to this god awful service my party and I left early, happily putting this ratchet establishment behind us for good. If I were anyone reading this I'd steer completely clear of this place at all costs unless you want your night to be ruined. read more

My wife and I had dinner here. Our server was a young man who was on top of it. I ordered the shrimp cocktail as an appetizer along with the ribeye steak dinner. My wife decided on the shrimp alfredo. The shrimp were okay while small and my steak was tough. My wife enjoyed her shrimp alfredo. Not a fan. read more

If you don't make a reservation here you will be stacked into the bar every seat full and eat at a bench while the whole time you see no less than 5 open tables the whole time your eating ( that just on the bar side ) with the smell of sewage coming out of the bar . When you say something to the bartender they will just blow you off and when you say something to the manager she will just give a rude look and say ("sure") and walk away and then take an extra long time to check you out ! Hade to ask the manager again for the ticket and she took her time getting it . read more

Love eating here but no longer like drinking here. We ordered Tito's on the rocks. What they brought was NOT TITO's!! Tasted like everclear. We sent it back. Waitress brought two more, and it tasted like everclear! We kept the second fire water and just let it sit and ordered a beer in a bottle. Times must be tough for the bartender to pour fake booze. Highly suggest sitting at the bar and ordering a bottle of wine or a beer so you can watch them open it. The steaks were amazing though. We also ordered the green chile and cream corn. It was delicious!!! Their baked potatoes are great as well. And don't forget their Texas toothpicks!! So many excellent choices here. Our service was outstanding. read more

I have never been so appalled with a restaurant in my life. Almost everything that could have gone wrong did. My party had initially made a reservation for 7:00pm and we were told that there would still be a 30 minute wait. We were then only seated more than 45 minutes later when we ordered our drinks and they didn't come out for another 30 minutes after having to remind the waitress of our order. We then ordered an appetizer which did not come out for yet another 30 minutes and then the complimentary bread basket that comes for every table didn't arrive until after that. After waiting for more than an hour for our entrees we asked to speak to a manager about the negligent service and they notified us that they had only just put our order in to the kitchen more than an hour after ordering. The waitress informed us that the wait would be at least another 30 minutes until we got our food. At this point it was past 9pm which was more than two hours past our initial reservation time. We decided we could no longer wait as the estimated waiting times had been extremely under exaggerated and all staff members were simply incompetent for a lack of a better word. I do not recommend this restaurant it was a terrible end to a fun day. read more

Yumm-EEEE!! Man did we pick a good night to come, it was Surf and Turf night! The crab legs and steak were awesome. Steak was really tender and full or flavor! We ordered the Texas Dice for appetizers, sooooo goood. Kinda like steak fingers but cut into small bite sized pieces, served with gravy! We will be back when we come to visit Ruidoso. Service was ok, for being a busy Friday night. The busgirls were may more attentive than servers, but still good service from all. read more

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