As we were passing through Amarillo I had the kid look up a BBQ place in the area that had good…read morereviews and wasn't some mall based chain type place and he came up with Tyler's. Decided to give it a go and we are glad we did! Pulled in for lunch and the place was hoppin'! Long line, all local plates...always a good sign! We had a brisket sandwich and the brisket meat plate, sweet tea, and lemonade. Everything was delicious and the sauces were wonderful. Service was fast and friendly. Plenty of seating and an open inviting atmosphere. If we lived in the area, this would definitely be a go-to spot!

I was really looking forward to trying some of the great barbecue I'd read about and hoped to add…read moreanother Texas Monthly Top 50 BBQ spot to my list. Unfortunately, the experience was ruined at the counter. I stood there for several minutes while the young man directly in front of me failed to acknowledge me--not even a quick "I'll be with you in a moment." Instead, he and a coworker spent several minutes discussing a chopped beef sandwich while I waited. When a customer is standing right in front of you, that lack of acknowledgment and basic service is unacceptable. I seriously considered walking out, but decided to order some food to go. The brisket had a solid, flavorful bark, but the ribs were overcooked. I also tried the jalapeño-cheese sausage after being told they did not make their original sausage in-house. Overall, the disappointing service overshadowed the food. This was a terrible customer experience and unlike anything I've encountered at a barbecue restaurant in the Texas Panhandle.

Not good. Chewy brisket. Over priced. Basic sides. I'd get better bbq and sides at a fundraiser…read moreplate for 1/4 the price. And actually help someone. Please don't eat here. I'm done in the pic.

We were told about this place by my cousin- he and the owner have been friends since childhood…read more We decided to stop here for lunch and boy we were not disappointed! The rubs were "freaking good" and the chicken melts in your mouth. The brisket was tender and delicious. All sauces homemade and we especially liked the spicy. Highly recommend!

The food was great, wanted to try a spot while working out here was recommended here and me and my…read morewife loved it, the service was good the lady behind the counter recommended some food options and they did not disappoint, and the rustic Americana vibe it brought was very country themed over all good food good ambiance and service would highly recommend.

The food was tasty. However the delivery service the used is TERRIBLE. Took 1.5 hr for a BBQ…read moredelivery with the restaurant is 4.5 miles from the hotel. I ordered the Justus 4 all it was nice and spicy also got turkey breast. It wasn't as good as the Justus. While that food was good, I will not place another order for delivery.

Came here from California driving Route 66 and knew we had to find great BBQ and boy did we. The…read moremenu lists prices by the 1/2pound but you can get any amount. We got the pulled pork - with a delicious mustard sauce, pork ribs, and the baked potato with brisket. The server was really helpful and recommended the green chili stew paired with the pinto beans. It was so good. The potato salad was also good, but just know it is sweet.

1/2 lb Brisket wet was just enough to share with my husband (we are sissy Californians!) with some…read moreRudy's beans and Cole slaw. I so appreciate that the bbq sauces, pickles and beans were NOT sweet, but instead had a rich kick of flavor! The banana pudding was killer as well. We went through the line quickly and the staff was helpful for first timers. Ambiance is very chill country vibe, I liked the giant sauce containers on the table.

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.

Always enjoy coming here. The tacos with chopped brisket is on point! Mac n cheese is delicious…read more Pulled pork is a great choice too!

Not fancy but solid. We got 1 pound of brisket and a large Mac and cheese. It was very good. More…read morethan 2 adult men should eat for lunch. The spicy Nashville sauce was really good. Don't be turned off by the gas station aspect of this place. Nice folks running the counter too.

The sausage is tasteless and the chips were burnt. This place is overrated. No joke my dog wouldn't…read moreeven eat the sausage. I took a bite of my sausage and tasted nothing. I tried it again still nothing. I thought I had the Corona Virus but after tasting bbq sauce crisis averted. I tried to leave no star but clicked on the one.Its not even worth a piece of a star.

Everything on the menu was the pinnacle of that flavor. The brisket was perfect, the ribs melted…read morelike butter, the catfish fried perfectly and flavorful and the smoked sausage was a treat. Best food I have had in Alabama, Mississippi or the rest of Texas.

Wish I could have eaten here more than once!…read more On a solo trip and was craving real food. Not much else to say except the food here is just so comforting and makes me nostalgic for my grandmas cooking. Just legit. Everything was SO. GOOD. Ribs, catfish, Mac and cheese, cornbread and sweet potatoes.

This place is amazing! You can tell the owners actually care about their food and their customers!…read moreTheir potato salad is the best and that which we measure everyone else's we've ever found. Great value and and local!

This is the first time I've entered and ordered food from this Restaurant. I ordered a half rack…read moreof ribs for $17 to go. They prepared eight slices of ribs and the ribs tasted excellent. The two people upfront that took my money and prepared the rib order were very cordial, welcoming, attentive and pleasant. Thank you for the ribs. It was a great lunch and I will definitely be back to eat more of your ribs and other stuff.

My parents and I were driving through West Texas and the Panhandle as part of our road trip into…read moreArizona. After an afternoon of driving in the hot Texas summer, we arrived into Amarillo and had built up an appetite. No better place to stop than The Big Texan! If you haven't already heard of The Big Texan (whether it be through shows like Man v. Food, social media, etc), there's a good chance you'll have heard of it while on the drive to Amarillo with the innumerable billboard signs that they've invested in. Upon arrival, it definitely lives up to the name. You're greeted by a giant cattle that's in front of the restaurant. The front porch is reminiscent of Cracker Barrel but on a much grander scale. We were fortunate to not have a wait despite it being near dinner time. Even more lucky, we were seated at a table close to stage. It did take a bit of time before our waiter came by but we weren't in a rush and enjoyed the atmosphere. Once he came by, he was extremely kind and welcoming. We were given our menus and a basket of rolls. The bread was standard. Now, I did mention earlier that it was closer to dinner time. Specifically, that meant after 4. We had tried to catch the lunch special... that happens to end at 4. Nonetheless, our waiter was more than kind enough to extend that timing for us which we greatly appreciated (note - please don't expect this, we just fortunate!). With that being said, we ordered and got our food shortly after. I personally got the chopped steak with a side of brocolli and mac & cheese. Both sides were standard. The chopped steak was great. It came in a flavorful gravy and was served on top of mashed potatoes. Recommend! Throughout our meal, there were two brave souls that attempted the infamous 72 oz steak challenge. It takes place on the aforementioned stage. I did contemplate it. Though, I did eventually chicken out. From my observation, it looks like you pay before the meal. If you succeed, you get a full refund after. And of course all the recognition that comes with it. I'm not sure if the two valiant competitors won in the end but I have no doubt they left full. Last thing to note. Aside from the restaurant itself, The Big Texan has other areas in the building itself. At the entrance, you are greeted by a dessert parlor with baked good and ice cream. Further inside, there's a bar area to the left. At the end of the hall, there are the restrooms with some interesting decor. Finally, outside, there are some tables and other Western outdoor furnishings. I assume the area is for events. Regardless, an interesting area to visit!

What can I say that probably hasn't already been said before? Probably not much. The food was…read moredelicious. The atmosphere was like being at a bbq picnic with long rows of tables that you share with others. Booths are also available but expect to wait for those if it's busy. It's very loud. A lot of conversations happening in a big open space tends to do that! This is NOT the place to go for an intimate conversation or a romantic evening. It was very difficult to hear our waiter. Anyway, I would definitely come back and bring family and friends.