Red River Steakhouse — Restaurant in Amarillo

Absolutely the WORST experience I've had in a very long time. For starters, complimentary bread was cold.The cinnamon butter wasn't bad though. Ordered 2 bloody Marys, no celery, no olives, tasted like a cheap mix, found out later in the evening it was just clamato with vodka, my fault for not reading before ordering, as it does say on the menu what's in it. My daughter and wife ordered the 6oz sirlions mid rare. I had a cowboy ribeye mid rare. It took almost an hour to get our food. Once we got it, the steak was completely flavorless we were pooring salt on it to get some flavor. My wife's hominy was cold and the bowl it was in, was dirty. My daughter's french fries were also cold. My okra was lukewarm. We asked for Ketchup, after about 15 minutes, we asked again, from someone else, they had it in their hand already and gave it to my daughter. After a short time. We couldn't stomach the bloody Mary's after adding 6 limes, and we would have added the olives we requested on the side, however they were shriveled and had brown spots, so my wife picked at them, but gave up eventually. So I ordered house Moscato, they were out, I asked for the top shelf version, they were out of that to, asked for a Riesling next, out of that to, wife asked for a Vinilla Porter, came back, they were out, I finally just asked for a happy hour bud light, since it was a $1 off on drafts, I asked for a bud light with lime and salt please. About 10 minutes went by, and the bar tender came back to inform us that they were out of the porter, I asked my wife if she just wanted a bud light like me, she said no, you go ahead, and then I said ok, just the one then. After I ate all that I could stomach, which wasn't much, I wondered where my beer was, I just asked the waiter to take it off, he responded, I already did, and I said, umm ok, he said why, were you wanting it? The bar tender told me you canceled, I said no, we just canceled the Porter since you were out but I still wanted my bud light, So he said, I'll go get it, I said it's to late now, just don't worry about it. He said ok, do you guys want the cobbler, we all 3 in time said YES that's what we were here for 3 peaches please!!! The cobbler actually came out HOT very HOT, and it was burnt. The entire reason we went here was for the cobbler and it was close to home, big mistake. My cobbler wasn't done, and my wife's and daughters was burnt and inedible. I'm so so upset that I spent $70 at this place for cold food, flavorless steaks, bad drinks, drinks that we didn't get, and burnt desert. All and all the absolute WORST experience I've ever had at a restaurant before. For the price, I could have gone to the Roadhouse, and I would have gotten a lot better quality, more food, and my check would have been less. $27 for a 14oz ribeye, Roadhouse has their ribeye for $10 LESS and it taste 10 times better. I will never make this mistake again. Trust me, if your on this side of time, take the time to go elsewhere, skip this place, it's definitely NOT worth the money. This is the 3rd time we've gone, and it just gets worse every time. We gave it 3 chances over the course of the year since we do live near by, but the 3rd time was the final strike, we will not be...

@conniesreviews Place was recommended for their chicken fried steak. The food overall was just OK for me. Except for our initial encounter, I would say the service we received was very good. Our waiter was very sweet and friendly. She took great care of us. When we first arrived there was no one at the hostess desk and we waited for a while. We almost decided to leave and go someplace else because it was taking them so long to seat us. It was a Sat night, but after the dinner rush so it wasn't busy. There were only a few other people eating. Someone walked by and said someone will be right with you while we were waiting. It was still another while before someone finally showed up to seat us. The decor is super TX and very cute. My son loved the feel of the restaurant. I really appreciated the live music, it was great. The bandana touch for table napkins & large Mason jars for drinks is cute. On the food side of things, the fried pickles and cheese fries were good, the salad was fresh and I enjoyed the hominy green chili side, very yummy. I read reviews of the pickles being too salty, but we didn't have that experience. Also, I mean, they're pickles, so um, yeah, they're salty, kinda a given. My son enjoyed his patty melt and my husband said his steak was good but a bit more on the well-done side instead of medium. We all got our food, but my son's fried pork chops didn't come out until a bit later in the meal. Our waitress told us "sorry, we have a new cook and he doesn't listen." 🤔 ummm ok. I had the chicken fried steak, it was cooked well but flavorless. It was very easy to taste that the flour batter just wasn't seasoned. There is salt and pepper at the table, but it had zero flavor alone. A flavorless piece of meat fried in flavorless batter. My daughters chicken tenders and my sons pork chops also tasted like they were fried in the same batter and therefore also flavorless. Neither one finished their meal since it tasted like nothing. The baked potato was delicious. The cobbler was also yummy. My potato salad was very sweet so I didn't eat it. Personal preference, I don't like sweet potato salad, but someone else might. As mentioned, all of the fried items were cooked well, the meat inside was tender and the fry on it was nice and crispy, but since it tasted like nothing, it just wasn't palatable for us. The gravy was just ok, I've had better. Everyone liked the fries and loved the onion rings. Also, a storm blew through while we were there and water started dripping from the roof onto the table next to ours and started splashing on my daughter. They might want to look into getting that fixed. It was at the end of our meal and had just finished paying our check so we didn't ask to be moved. Overall, we probably won't be back and we wouldn't highly recommend it, it was just ok. If you're just going for bar drinks and to listen to some live music, this is...

*One star, because after dinner last night, I have been sick in bed all day with food poisoning. First, it needs to be said that our server was perfect. The food at dinner last night was OLD. Everybody knows what food tastes like after it’s been sitting under a heat lamp for hours and hours. We arrived just after 7pm and, as far as we could tell, were the only patrons in the restaurant. There was ONE car in the parking lot when we pulled in. Our complimentary bread tasted absolutely rancid, so the oil used to make it had most likely been pretty bad. My husband and I each had one small piece and neither of us finished our piece. My husband ordered the prime rib sandwich with a side of fries. The “prime rib” on his sandwich was like thick slices of leather; tough, and dark brown. Had he not eaten all day, he wouldn’t have eaten any more than the first bite. His fries were so old they had begun to shrivel and dry up. They looked to have probably been over cooked when they were still fresh, which they certainly weren’t by the time they landed on his plate. I ordered the chicken fried steak with white gravy, mashed potatoes and green beans. usually, here in Texas, it’s hard to go really wrong with that particular dinner. I’ve ordered the same more times than I could even count. I ate the mashed potatoes and gravy. I ate less than half of my shoe-leather-tough chicken fried steak - which was inexplicably on top of the gravy instead of beneath it - before my jaw literally began to ache from chewing it. I gave up. But the problem, I think, aside from the rancid jalapeño bread, were the green beans. They were quite literally floating in grease. I presumed it to be bacon grease, because it was thick and nearly viscous, the way bacon grease becomes when it’s no longer hot. The green beans seemed older than anything else on my plate; the beans themselves had become soft and lfloppy, and tasted like they were about 3-4 days old. When our wonderful server came to ask if we were done, then asked if everything was okay, we were honest with her about just how okay everything was not. She was horrified. As we were telling her, as politely as possible, her eyes grew more huge and at one point her jaw literally dropped open. She was very apologetic, but we reassured her it was not her fault, nor did we need an apology from her. However, it would have been nice if we’d been offered at least half off our nearly $55 dinner bill, but we weren’t. It was a very expensive meal, even if it had been good, or at least edible. We took it as a lesson and will not ever be going back. And now I’ve been sick for more...