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.
Review Source: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. Â The new menu was different and more expensive. Â We agree with other yelpers that the prices are quite high for the mid-west.. Â My food was not prepared as requested, well done not medium rare. Â The Burger my husband ordered made him sick and was very expensive. Â $13.00 Â We know many better places to eat in Nebraska and Iowa, this was a big disappointment.
Review Source:This is one of those places that you stumble in to after a long day on the road when you don't want to venture any further than you have to from your hotel room. The good news is that it's decent.
You'll be greeted with a bucket of peanuts that you can nibble on while perusing the big menu. You're supposed to throw the shells on the floor, but I just couldn't be tempted to make the mess. Plus, I didn't want to walk through them on the way out.
Next you'll get a board of warm bread and butter. Love that. We also ordered the onion rings which were on special - although they were actually onion straws, they were delicious and hard to leave alone.
I ordered some chicken tenders that came with "fiery" gravy, mashed potatoes and creamy corn. I asked for the gravy on the side because I didn't know if I'd like it. Truth was, those tenders and potatoes needed the gravy - they were rather flavorless on their own. The "gravy" was more like a Rotel tomatoes and cheese dip, but it was good. The real star, however, was that creamy corn. I don't know what the heck it was, but it was delicious. I could have had an entire plate of that (and all the calories I'm sure it entailed).
Husband ordered a steak (when in Nebraska...) along with two gigantic sides of cole slaw and a loaded mashed potato. Everything here comes in huge portions. I thought we'd have to be rolled out of the joint. Not ideal for hitting the road, but if you can take leftovers home, you win.
I'm giving this place 5-stars for the OUTSTANDING hamburger I had here.
They grind their own meat and the quality of the burger is SUPERB. The roll was good too. I don't remember much about the sides though. My Mom and I were staying next door at the Best Western and wanted to eat in our room since we had the dogs with us. The hostess was so helpful and accomodating in making sure we had everything we needed for our take-out meal.
And since we weren't able to enjoy the peanuts in the actual steakhouse, we bought a HUGE bag for $3 and snacked on them for the drive back to New York.
Great burger! Not one to miss...
Much better than expected! Food was really good: I'm a 'good hamburger' enthusiast, and they served me an extremely good hamburger for $9. Jalapenos and onions on the burger, too!
It's also about 100 feet from my hotel room. They make some pretty strong Gin & Tonic, too. :)
Only downside is that the service is a bit slow, but the staff were very friendly. They brought the drinks really fast, but the food took a while. No big deal--though it's probably not a good idea to come here expecting to order, eat, and pay in 10 minutes.
Raw hamburger and patty melt... Blood coming out!! Hash browns were good. Paid $17.. Threw it away. Also when I arrived there was one table seated and a couple people playing pool. I told the hostess we had a carry out and she said "huh,,, you had a carry out?? I will have to check".. i thought i called it in to the wrong place !!!!
Also they were out of the rye bread for patty melt and had to substitute Texas toast. I wish I had read the yahoo reviews first. They all said this place was terrible!!!!
My husband called to complain. They put the cook on the phone. No manager on duty. Gordon Ramsey would burn this place to the ground and pee on the dust.
Was fortunate to have given this place a try while staying next door. Â This is a quaint steak house with country music playing and peanut shells on the floor. Â I had the NY strip steak, potato salad and cole slaw. Â Although I didn't care for the cole slaw very much, I found the potato salad to be pretty good and the steak was great and perfectly cooked. Â I was pleasantly surprised at how good this place was, and would certainly return if I were back in the area.
Review Source:We showed up at the Golden Spur after the Steakhouse was closed for the evening so our experience is only limited to the Saloon, which had a large late evening menu. This place is about what you'd expect in terms of ambiance, country music and peanuts on the floor. There was a decent beer selection with some local brews. (Though "Bud Lite Lime" shouldn't be considered a microbrew.) Good appetizers. My wife loved her steak. The waitstaff were friendly and helpful. What more could you ask for?
Review Source:I don't remember the food terribly well. Â I generally cringe when I eat at places like this because it's sometimes complicated to find something to order that doesn't contain meat. Â I actually liked the place, though, so I was either surprised by a meatless option or I didn't have to send back the salad because it contained bacon bits.
Probably a two-star situation in all honesty, but how can you not love this place? Â OK, I can see how you might not love it, but you were a child at one point, right? Â You you must have fantasized about walking down a wooden sidewalk into an old-timey saloon. Â Anyone?
Golden Spur is located alongside I-80 and therefore one would expect it to be a tourist joint. Tourists are certainly found there with a motel on either side of the restaurant, but it is full of locals as well. Peanut shells on the floor, country music on every TV screen. Saloon to one side, dining room on the other.
My wife had a steak and reported it cooked just the way it was ordered. Her steak was tender. Fresh broccoli on the side properly cooked. I ordered the "fajita skillet," not quite sure what that would turn out to be. A HEAPING pile of sauteed chicken, peppers and onions, served over a pile of rice and pinto beans spiced with jalapeno and cumin. Tortillas, shredded cheese, guacamole, lettuce and tomato on the side. More than I could eat in two days, let alone one meal.
They serve freshly baked loaves of rye bread with dill seed. VERY good bread, indeed. My wife tried a glass of Red Truck cabernet - new to her and reported very good.
We were too full to try desserts. We would defnitely go back.
I head up through Ogallala for kiting down at Lake MacConaughy, and stopped by this place at the recommendation of a friend. As you enter, the left door heads into the restaurant, the right door heads into the saloon/bar. The place has a good feel to it, not a whole lot of commercial glitz to it at all. This could partly be inspired by the piles of peanut shells on the floor. That has got to be one of the coolest features to the golden spur. There's a gigantic bin of peanuts in the front while you wait for a table, and you simply toss your peanut remains on the floor. They have mini buckets at each table as well. It's fun to look around and see the small mountains beside each table.
The food was solid fare. Out in this part of the country, cattle is king - and why shouldn't it be? Two guys shared a brisket and rib platter, another guy had the bacon wrapped fillet mignon, and I had a full rack of ribs. I hadn't had lunch that day and I was feeling particularly famished. Wow. The portions here are big. I was stuffed by the time I finished.
The beer selection is minimal but they do have Fat Tire on tap, and that's what counts.
Most likely stopping by again on my next trip up.
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