The Golden Spur Steakhouse & Saloon

My wife and I stayed at the adjacent Best Western and had dinner here. Both of us found the food to be very good. For a steakhouse they had a good selection of items, including seafood and vegetarian items as well. The waitress was friendly. Serving sizes were on the large side (good or bad I guess depending). The only slight ding, I felt their prices were a little high. Honestly high enough that it kept me from coming back a second night (I was spending the weekend in Ogalla). So four stars for great service and excellent food, one star ding for taking a little too much advantage of the I-80 and tourist traffic.

I don't often rate places too poorly, and only do so when the mountain of evidence compels me to warn others away.

Walking in to the place, it is poorly marked, leading the wife and I to try and negotiate from the bar area to the restaurant side. Once seated, the drinks came slowly. The wife ordered a Margarita, and it was very strongly a pre-made mix, certainly no triple sec, and we still haven't decided if there was any tequila in it at all (she switched to soda). The appetizer (Spinach & Artichoke dip) was also a bit long in reaching the table, and was problematic when it did ... I'm pretty sure the chips were stale before being dropped into the fryer, and nobody had bothered to chop up the Artichokes in the dip, rendering it mostly inedible.

We both ordered steaks with a variety of sides. At $22 a plate, we expected good quality, particularly in an area which should "know it's cattle". I truly love a good steak, and appreciate beef in all of it's varied presentations, but all I can really say is that the cut was very low-grade. slightly gristly, lots of edge fat, without the flavor you'd get from good marbling. The sides were also non-spectacular, with her baked potato and my sweet potato mash the best on our plates respectively.

So, the last and perhaps most unpleasant surprise with this most disappointing of meals came with the check; two steak dinners (low quality cuts), one appetizer, one margarita (possibly with tequila), one soda and two draft beers. $ 60 ? nope. $ 70 ? wrong again. $ 81.

I would have figured being in cattle country that this imitation Texas-style steakhouse would have been good quality and decent value, but I was wrong on both counts. Apparently this establishment is firmly in some reviewers "visit again" list, but for my wife and I it is most decidedly in the "never again, no way" list. Which is sad, because I wanted to like it.

The menu on their web site today was not the one we had gven to us at the restaurant.  The new menu was different and more expensive.  We agree with other yelpers that the prices are quite high for the mid-west..  My food was not prepared as requested, well done not medium rare.  The Burger my husband ordered made him sick and was very expensive.  $13.00   We know many better places to eat in Nebraska and Iowa, this was a big disappointment.