Looked on Yelp for a place to eat in Red River while here on a ski trip with the family. Looking for a good steak and potato after skiing all day. Service was slow and she forgot what we asked for because she didn't write anything down! Filet came out cold and tough. Appetizers were frozen variety similar to a truck stop! Salad came from a bag!! Seriously for their prices they could do SOMETHING homemade! Son ordered chick noodle soup that, surprise, tasted and looked like canned food. Skip this place and give your hard earned money to a more deserving eatery in town.
Review Source:The new location in the Lodge is much better. Red still greets patrons in the lobby, where you can get a drink from the Lost Love Saloon while you wait for a table. Â The service is friendly and fast, while you eat peanuts and toss your shells on the wood floor! Portions are generous (maybe TOO generous), and the selection, including bison and elk steaks, is wide. Â Seafood and shellfish are also available, but this is primarily a steak house, so stick with the program, pardner!
Review Source:Last week was my first experience in Red River with my husband's family who has been travelling to the tiny mountain town for over 10 years. This was the main place I was excited to try based on Yelpers and stories I had heard from the famous Texas Red's. Unfortunately, my experience was far from satisfactory.
We were seated quickly and our waitress was attentive and patient with our large party, including a rowdy toddler. That's where the good ends. I ordered a ribeye medium-rare and two in our party ordered filet mignons medium-well. Upon receiving our order, it was quickly apparent that my steak (which was less than 1/2 inch thick) was not medium-rare but well done (no pink in the meat what-so-ever). As for our two medium-well filets, both were raw in the center. We all sent our steaks back with the expectations that the filets would be cooked to medium-well and I would receive a new ribeye that was medium-rare. One of the two filets came back as expected, however my steak was raw on one half and medium-rare on the other half. The other filet was severely overcooked. I gave up on receiving a correct steak after this point.
Our waitress was exceedingly apologetic. She explained that they are proud of their steaks and that this was a very unusual experience. Furthermore, she explained that their normal cook was out as it was Sunday and the fill-in cook doesn't normally have issues. She was gracious to take my steak off the tab as well as the steak for one of our party who had the overcooked steak. While this salvaged some of our experience, I left hungry.
Texas Red's has great service, but without the food to back it up, we will not be returning.
Food is ok but overpriced. Â $35 for a steak and you bring me an undercooked baked potato wrapped in foil to accompany it? Â Service was just all right. Â Never was asked if I wanted another beer. Â 2 members of my party of 5 arrived a few minutes before me and they wouldn't seat our "incomplete" party even though it was 4:45 in the afternoon and we were one of two tables in the place. Â Where we were seated needed some major attention to the floor. Â I understand they allow peanut shells to be thrown on the floor, but mushed up French fries and salad remnants just looks unkempt, especially since it was clearly early in the dinner time and hadn't had time to be too dirty. Â The steaks tasted good, but were not better than most chain steakhouses.
Review Source:Real table cloths & peanuts (throw the shells on the floor)! Our son didn't know what to do about throwing the peanut shells on the floor! Â Thanks Texas Reds, we just got him to stop throwing his trash on the floor at home!
Prime rib is definitely a later meal option (it wasn't ready at 3:45, after having the Prime Rib Special in Farmington, our daughter tried to order Prime Rib at every restaurant, she was sad it wasn't ready). Â Ten of the sixteen ordered the Ribeye steak, the others ordered the chicken special, soup, salad and a couple of children's meals.
Bread loaves for the tables, chives (dried), butter and sour cream spaced accordingly, we were ready for our meal to arrive!
I can't review much about the meal, once the food arrived it was a blur of culinary bliss for the sixteen of us. Â We were all together with great portions of food, enjoying samples from everyone's plates, having great conversations and good service, drinks filled & refilled, extra butter and all the bread loaves we could handle. Believe me with sixteen of us, we can handle a lot of bread.
We did have a great meal at Texas Reds, it is a Red River Tradition for us, no matter the total number of us that arrive for dinner.
The food was flavorful, the steaks cooked to perfection. Â The filet comes bacon wrapped, which was a nice surprise. Â They had limited choices for children but had no issues with us splitting the entree's with our children. Â The atmosphere is country rustic and they had a live band playing mild country very well.
The waitress was friendly and very attentive. Â This makes me wish that the chain steak places would take a cue from these guys.
We went here our first night in Red River. I was famished and looking forward to a good steak, so I picked the 12 oz thick cut NY strip. Overall the food was very good, the appetizer we chose was the sampler with the cheese sticks, fried & stuffed jalapeno's, and onion/jalapeno straws.
Steak was excellent, cooked to perfection, and very good. I will say if your the type who likes a well seasoned steak I didnt feel that this was it. It was just pure, well cooked beef. No rub or melted anything to cover up the beef flavor.
Overall a good restaurant, I took 1 star away because honestly for the money I've had the same amount of food at comperable chain steakhouses. A solid choice for a steak in Red River though.
During the final days of my life before the Angel of Death swiftly takes me from this Earth, I will beg them to grant me one revisit to Texas Reds before I depart. To all the vegetarian, pescetarian, or vegan Yelpers out there: close your eyes. Cover your ears. These words were not meant to befall them.
To re-experience the carnage that is the New York Strip steak would be something dubiously legal. To pay homage to this altar of smoked satisfaction would be not a sacrilege, but a sacrament unlike any we will likely experience again on this planet. This will be our last supper. The steaming crisp bread will be broken, and the deep rich wine will flow into our goblets, to be toasted to the health we are undoubtedly about to sabotage. You will deny your coronary constitution three times before the morning comes, with either French fries, buttery baked potato or fried okra. You, Brownie Bottom Sundae, will be my demise. Do quickly what you must! And leave me to enjoy what little time remains, before the coma I prepare to experience commences. Take comfort to know that although we may check out soon, it will be in a blissful stupor.
And to think: all that for 30 pieces of silver? What a steal.
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