Posted on 01/08/2023 3:09:04 PM PST by DallasBiff
Some would argue that chicken fried steak is chicken fried steak no matter where you get it. Those people are obviously not from Texas. Us Texans know that there is a very fine art to making this dish: getting the breading just right so that it’s not too crisp, making sure the coating to meat ratio is even so as not to allow one element to overpower the other, and concocting a perfectly rich, creamy gravy that offsets the crunchiness of the crust. When all of these elements come together, it’s a song from heaven above. So without further ado, here are 10 restaurants that serve the best chicken fried steak in Texas
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Are there any good chicken fried steaks in other states.
I know it is a regional specialty.
DQ Dude at Dairy Queen.
Babe’s is my favorite, although Dairy Queen’s Dude is very good.
I can’t remember which, but either Sam’s Club or BJs had a large freezer bag of chicken fried steak WITH a separate pouch of white gravy. It really wasn’t bad.
Not really sure of where I picked up the habit but there it is.
The gravy is for the mashed potatoes and corn. Mixed together.
Green beans on the side.
Here in Ohio I’ve had IHOPs Chicken Fried Steak with over easy eggs and hash browns a number of times and it was decent enough!
We’re fairly recent transplants to Arkansas and marvel at how the local DQ does land office business.
Seems there’s always a line at the drive-thru.
Hell, people even line up there FOR BREAKFAST
Easy to make at home. Try this recipe, really nice.
https://foodwishes.blogspot.com/search?q=chicken+fried+steak
Mary’s Cafe (Strawn) in my goto place.
I make a pretty good one in Arizona.
I visited Ranchmen’s in Ponder several times with friends when I lived in Dallas. I don’t know about these other places, but I can certify that the chicken fried steak in Ponder deserves to be on this list.
The best, I ever had was a black-owned restaurant on the east side of Nacogdoches, TX. It was the best I’ve ever eaten before snd after that restaurant. Went back to visit and heard it had closed. Sad.
Looked like the dish at Ranchman’s cafe in Ponder.
It’s great.
I like it with eggs and hash browns.
Thanks, I will read this.
German immigrants... back in the 1800s invented it as a copy of their schnitzel using the Texas ingredients they had at hand. Truly a Texas thing.
Blue Bonnet Cafe (Marble Falls)
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Yeah. I went there.
damn good cfs...
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g55857-d464820-Reviews-H3_Ranch-Fort_Worth_Texas.html
I got it at a sound good place once and the gravy was light brown, not whitish, and had pepper spicing.
It was great.
Look in Pennsylvania Dutch country, Berks, Lancaster, and Lebanon Counties...
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