Delicious and will definitely be back when in town! We had Brisket potato salad coleslaw chips…read moresalsa and queso!

Incredible food! The smash burger is sooo good! Flat top burger with mustard and pickles! Best…read moreflavor for a burger! Staff is very nice and sweet! We got our food quick and it was hot and fresh! I highly recommend this place! They're new in elk city (April 2021) but I'm telling you we came from California and have been traveling the country and this is a top 5 spot!! Please visit them!!

Well, in small town northwest Texas, there's not much to choose from but as we were driving through…read moreShamrock, we decided to try Hasty's. Now, was it the best food we've ever had? No, just basic that you could find just about anywhere BUT! the service was great. Everyone was friendly, we got our food quickly even though it was busy on a Saturday afternoon. There's even a drive thru if you're in a hurry. I would recommend you try for yourself!

Rarely ever 5 stars...always room for improvement…read more My pal and I are out storm chasing and any food is better than gas station food period. This was a nice little find in Shamrock while we were waiting for storms to arrive. Very unassuming joint with a busy drive up. Burgers are basic, hard to mess up and filling. I also had the onion rings which were significantly better than I anticipated. Decor is Irish, Shamrock and kitschy diner. Staff is friendly and accommodating. Not many options in Shamrock, so this is a good one.

Under new ownership. Food is just as good as the previous owners, with generous portions. Service…read morewas quick, efficient and our order was correct! The laid back atmosphere makes it easy to dine without worrying about expectations.

I come to Amarillo every September for a small western music fest. I always try to only eat local…read more While in an antique store on 6th St. the owner asked if I like bbq. It's just my favorite food!(after Maine lobster, of course ) She said Wesley's had the best bbq in town. Of course, we had to try it. It was quite a way from our hotel. 9 miles, but well worth it! I had the small rib plate. 3 meaty smokey ribs so tender the meat came right off the bone. With the sweet hickory bbq sauce adding just the right flavor, I was sold. The pinto beans were cooked just right. The cole slaw is the type I like, not over mayonnaised and not too sweet. Crunchy cabbage. There were 7 of us, and everyone cleaned their plate! The bonus was a young singer, Nelson mckinney entertained us with his wonderful voice and guitar playing. This is a don't miss place to eat if you are in Amarillo.

Fantastic! Tyler is a magician with his BBQ. I highly recommend this place…read more I had the brisket and the sausage. Legit. He said the short rib is available on Saturdays. I am going to have to drive back on a Saturday. Strong work.

I was really looking forward to trying some of the great barbecue I'd read about and hoped to add…read moreanother Texas Monthly Top 50 BBQ spot to my list. Unfortunately, the experience was ruined at the counter. I stood there for several minutes while the young man directly in front of me failed to acknowledge me--not even a quick "I'll be with you in a moment." Instead, he and a coworker spent several minutes discussing a chopped beef sandwich while I waited. When a customer is standing right in front of you, that lack of acknowledgment and basic service is unacceptable. I seriously considered walking out, but decided to order some food to go. The brisket had a solid, flavorful bark, but the ribs were overcooked. I also tried the jalapeño-cheese sausage after being told they did not make their original sausage in-house. Overall, the disappointing service overshadowed the food. This was a terrible customer experience and unlike anything I've encountered at a barbecue restaurant in the Texas Panhandle.

The food was great, wanted to try a spot while working out here was recommended here and me and my…read morewife loved it, the service was good the lady behind the counter recommended some food options and they did not disappoint, and the rustic Americana vibe it brought was very country themed over all good food good ambiance and service would highly recommend.

Spicy Mike's was a real pleasant surprise. We had the smoked turkey, and it was perfect-- just the…read moreright amount of saltiness from the brine, and the smoke was nice & flavorful without overpowering the delicate flavor of the turkey itself. The ribs were also on-point with the dry rub having pops of tasty pepper & other complex seasoning-- you know these tender ribs are good when they require ZERO sauce! We tried 4 sides and all of them were delicious... the soft-cooked greens were classic & tasty, the potato salad was great, the pinto beans were particularly good, and the cole slaw was fresh, crunchy & rich in flavor. The people that worked there, from the counter folks to the servers were ALL great, super nice & friendly. I'm not sure what more I could ask for-- they even have a back patio that was dog-friendly so our guy could stay cool, and not be in the hot car as we passed through town.

wife and I stopped here on our way back from Colorado. both had burgers, and we tried the fries…read moreand onion rings...everything was AWESOME!!! if you drive through Childress, Texas, do yourself, friends and family a favor and stop for a quick bite to eat.

Drove thru on a road trip and saw the high yelp reviews. This did not disappoint. I highly…read morerecommend over any of the chain burger joints. JTs is legit. I got a patty melt recommended by the young miss taking our drink order. Yum! I loved the grilled onions on it. I was happy that this drive-in had a dining room to get out of the weather. Also has a patio and drive thru. Hub got a bacon cheeseburger and loved it.

One of the joys of traveling around Texas is finding places like this. We'd spent the previous…read morenight in Lubbock and our bartender at the restaurant told us about TC's Ponderosa. He'd grown up in the Dickens area so it was a local favorite of his. We veered a little out of our way to stop here for lunch and were so happy we did. As others have mentioned--you'd drive right past it if you didn't look closely. Looks like an almost-abandoned gas station. Inside, it was packed with people, including a local rancher buying lunch for the cowhands working her ranch. That's a big endorsement in my book. As mentioned in a couple of reviews, this isn't the place to be in a hurry. Orders were written down by hand and the money was collected by a sweet, friendly woman who grew up when the world wasn't so uptight and fast. Bless her heart for sticking to her pace. You can get stressed out it or you can settle in and enjoy the moment. We enjoyed every bit of it. The food was the final payoff. Damn good BBQ. Everything we had was good. Pretty good chance I'll be on the motorcycle again in west Texas and an even better chance the day will be planned to be in Dickens when I'm hungry!

If you like super saucy, sweet BBQ this place is for you. Even w onions, pickles & jalapeños- it…read morewas too sweet for me (chopped beef sandwich). The good part is they have a regular and large sandwich- the regular was more than I could eat. Might try again w sliced brisket.

Great food, service and atmosphere at this family owned restaurant in downtown Elk City. We were…read moretraveling through from Colorado to Arkansas and stopped for dinner to celebrate my birthday. A great experience in all regards - highly recommend!

Ok, this is convoluted. The atmosphere and vibe were great. Staff friendly and attentive. It fell…read moreapart at check out. The drink menu clearly stated an Old Fashioned was $10.50. It gave the choice of Makers Mark or Wild Turkey. My first drink was Makers, a second I chose Wild Turkey (first one was in my opinion quite weak). I can't recall ever having a problem so I had the server run the check without looking at it. When it came back, (at the suggestion of my wife) I did look it over. Both drinks were billed at $13.50. I informed the server, and she claimed that when the drink order is punched in, it puts in a higher charge for what is considered a "call" or "top shelf". The problem as you can see here is the advertised price is stated for the ones I ordered per the published price. I find it strange that it took quite a bit of back and forth with server and shift manager to explain something that is black-and-white. To their credit (after the back and forth) they refunded the difference, but how long has this been going on? How many people have been mistakenly over charged? A week? A month? A year? A quick check on Oklahoma's consumer protection and weights and measures law said this is a serious problem. No drama here, just fact: The menu said an Old Fashioned using Wild Turkey is $10.50, the bill was $13.50. That is deceptive plain and simple.

Driving through Childress on our way to Dallas and we found this little gem! The burgers were huge…read moreand tasted fantastic. My sister ordered the onion rings as well and she gave a big thumbs up! If you ever find yourself in Childress, definitely stop and try their food.

It was really good. I got the brisket burger which didn't have much meat but was very tender and my…read morehubby got a cheeseburger which he said was very tasty. We will stop here again.

Today I witnessed God. Not the Jesus on the tired, listing billboard with its rusted iron roots…read morepulled up by the prevalent wind scouring this dusty patch of North Texas but from this innocuous, humble piece of chopped brisket before me that has just changed my reality in a way that will never change back. I am on one of those once-in-a-lifetime walkabouts with my daughter as we hop from asphalt lily pad to lily pad in her beat-up RAV 4, journeying ever Eastward from the gently lapping waves of Santa Barbara to Miami's Solla Salew shores where she will matriculate for her marine mammal masters (The Tripple M they call it in various job posting and loan application sites). Its been triple digit Temperatures for the last 20 hours of driving. A tour of hades realm. I will remember the specific moment today when my wonderful, non-red-meat-eating daughter, in an enduring act of kindness suggested that we go to a bar-b-que during our brief run through the Texas pan-handle as recompense for going to visit her friend in OKC rather than run the southern grill gauntlet through Dallas. I pressed the yelp button and we went down the Amarillo rabbit hole...across some train tracks, around the aforementioned canted "Jesus is here" billboard (but before the better tended "Jesus is Coming" promissory), past two cows too hot to stand, down a lane next to an grain silo, stood a sign. It stated simply but profoundly, "Beer Open" Surviving the sweep of ages, what more is there really in life? Beer? Check. Open? Always on so many levels. As my eyes wandered over to the more traditional homage to this establishment's Nome de guere- "Pork n' Things". I was able to surmise the primary offerings from the initial noun but I was intrigued by the 'n' things' and what they might entail (or perhaps entrail). Girding our loins, we crossed the heavenly air conditioned threshold. Suffice to say, God had not yet made his/her/their/them/they appearance and it wasn't until after we ordered our sweet tea/lemonade that I made the decision that changed my life. I asked for some of the brisket (my choice was chopped) and some of the ribs I saw walking out the door with a Harley driver into the teeth of that Texas summer furnace heat. We sat idly, my daughter pondering her phone and striking up a conversation with a shy, angelic little girl who had bravely helped her mom set the table for us and shared her Lilo and stich drawing. It was at this moment that my world tilted. I figured that I would go for the brisket first as an appetizer to the main course of ribs. They had chopped it finely and I sporked half of it into my mouth. Epiphany. So many images colliding at once, each visually shouting over the other to be heard... To be RECOGNIZED. I remember a childhood national geographic where the Eskimo dad offered the still pumping seal heart to his son as he bit down and the blood flowed. I thought of Jody Foster trans-warping to another dimension mumbling "I didn't know! I didn't know! at the grandeur of the cosmos. I thought of the show 'Chopped' where they lectured recalcitrant chefs on not just making a meal but rather transforming it...elevating it to some other plane of being. That first bite punched though my mortal coil like a coherent beam of light from a collapsing neutron star raising my orbit to a plane of being I did not know existed. Stripping away layers of civilization, I felt primal and powerful. Like Dungeon Crawler Carl, I had been converted...elevated to something greater than my constituent bits. Part dire wolf, part berserker, part 90th level undead necromancing mage. The fat and smoked meat sat in my mouth, my brain shutting down my throat muscles not wanting this oral carnality to end. Imagine stripping away every vestige of civilization, de-evolving a million years when survival and procreation were equal partners in a race to the future. My body was humming and I felt alive in a way that I had not since that weekend in Tiajuana with those carny workers. I had a brief moment of panic that my newfound vigor would cause me to spontaneously combust or that this magical alchemy would somehow bind with the brisket and miraculously impregnate a wandering waitress out of sheer will...like the reproductive equivalent of magnetic induction such was the primordial essence of that single bite. But I digress. Suffice to say, I am a California lifer. I can tell you what cheese is on a charcuterie board and whether the uni is fresh but I don't have sufficient reference for what is considered presentable bar-b-que. My data set is certainly sparse but in my humble, untrained opinion, if you need a reference point...a place to start your own bar-b-que walkabout, Amarillo's Pork n' Things is a guiding star to what brisket and pork ribs can be in the hands of a master truly anointed, perhaps divinely, in their craft.

It's a fun little spot you wouldn't know about unless you had heard about it from other people or…read morelooked it up. Everyone is so friendly when you walk in and very thoughtful. You order food at the register and then sit down, so when you order a dessert, they can put a little note to serve it to you at the end. Speaking of dessert, that pecan cobbler ala mode smacks! The perfect ending to a delicious meal. The meat is so tender and falls off the bone. You don't need a knife to cut anything. A plastic knife will do the job easily. They say the brisket is the star of the show and I can attest to that. However, the turkey is the runner up. I don't know what they do to that Turkey, but my husband and I might have to grab more to take home with us tomorrow. They were so nice too because we ordered a 1/2 rack of ribs and they ran out, so we got the last of the ribs. The also doubled all our meats! We wound up getting 1/2 a lb of turkey and 1 lb of brisket! We are going to be eating some good sandwiches for the next few days. We definitely plan on coming back the next time we are in Amarillo. If you're in the area, definitely come in and grab a bite! They also have plenty of choices in beer too.