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Hodies Bar B Q

4.1 (115 reviews)
InexpensiveBarbeque
Open • 6:30 am - 9:00 pm
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Moderate noise
Divey
Good for kids
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Sliced Brisket
J Warren R.

A local favorite, Hodies serves up some great BBQ in a no frills diner right on the main road through town. The food is reasonably priced, the menu is easy to read, the wait staff is friendly and helpful. Bottomline: we enjoyed our lunch. Food service was fast. The iced tea well made and served in a Texas sized glass. The place is busy and quite popular. Brisket comes either sliced or chopped with the sauce on the side or on the sandwich. They also have a number of sides that accompany their meals. I'd stop here again on the next trip through town.

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Charles C.

Delicious moist brisket. Beans were homemade and warm. Coleslaw perfect. Waiting staff were friendly and welcoming. Was a great stop in between Texas and Colorado

Bbq dinner plate - brisket, ribs, potato salad, coleslaw, beans and Texas toast. Also had their June special frito pie.
David M.

Great food, great service, most importantly great people who care. Loved this diner in the middle of Texas! Will definitely be stopping by next time driving through.

Brisket sandwich and two sides
Elizabeth N.

Easy to find and plenty of parking. Great bbq and great service!!!! Sweet tea so delicious! I am sad to say that I didn't try their peach cobbler but maybe next time.

Sliced brisket, cole slaw, potato salad , beans and Texas toast. Yum
Karolyn H.

Stooped in our our way to Amarillo and was not disappointed ! Authentic Texas BBQ. Wait staff are fun and engaging. Had ribs and they fell off the bone, my husbands brisket was done perfectly (and he is picky!) Small restaurant reminded me of the old time diners. Can't miss this one if you are passing thru town.

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Plenty food...ribs were good brisket was ok. I'd recommend eating in rather than taking to go.

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The food was average yet plentiful. The decor was early garage sale. We did take out so it might be better if you dined in.

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Always a great stop on road trips. Super kind service and they serve up yummy BBQ hot and fresh!

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Nice stop along the way through Dalhart. Fast, friendly service and very good chopped brisket. Would definitely stop here again.

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If you are looking for bar b q don't go here. I would wait till you got some where where there is good bar b q

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Absolutely delicious!!!!! Worth the stop. Small fast food place but so darn good!! Fast customer service.

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Midway between Dallas and Denver, a great place to stop. Unpretentious, friendly, good thick sandwiches, lots of locals.

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4.3(325 reviews)
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The service here was top-notch and the food was excellent! I love the history of the restaurant,…read morealmost as much as I loved my chicken salad on a croissant. The tater tots were fresh and crispy. My friend had the stacked enchilada with an egg on top... It really looked amazing! Tasted good too. Portions were very large. There is a bar attached to this restaurant but we did not go into it. The decor is lovely and it's very spacious. A lot of men wearing cowboy hats in attendance! Definitely make sure you check out the bathrooms before you leave... Especially the handles on the door stalls. So cool!

I'm sure that I reviewed this place at least once before. Maybe it was under a different name. I do…read moreknow that I didn't leave a three star review. I do't even know how many times I've stopped and eaten here while passing through Dalhart. I do know this... we are RVers and live over 350 miles away but we almost always spend the night in Dalhart because of the XIT grill. In visiting with the server tonight, who was 5 stars, he mentioned that the restaurant was under new ownership or management. I had asked about the bread that they used to serve - and is one of my reasons for stopping - and he said that management had decided to go with bread "buns"it's a roll. It's okay, but not special like the loaves used to be. That change brings one star and might be enough to discourage me from choosing Dalhart as our "layover" point. I had the cowboy sirloin. It had good flavor and was cooked perfectly, but it was as tough and chewy as a leather boot. These items can be fixed. The margins might not be be as high ot the price might need to go up. Your choice, but you just dropped below a great little BBQ spot - and this meal was not worthy of spending the night for and especially not planning a night in Dalhart. That means the place we stay loses, where we buy fuel loses. Where we normally have breakfast loses. Here's an error in many businesses. They gorget to consider fixed costs when trying to raise margins. I know overall margins are small, but margins on food are usually 69% plus. Think about your customer count and see if the changes you've implemented are a feel good improvement or an actual overall improvement. As you do your calculations, include what it costs to retain business because lower quality doesn't really pay off unless you're running a fast food restaurant.

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XIT Woodfire Grill - Entry to bar area

Entry to bar area

XIT Woodfire Grill - Filet mignon

Filet mignon

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Friendly, clean, not far off the main drag and highway I40. There in Tucumcari is a great little…read moreBBQ joint cum old fashioned Ranch Supply store. Lots of memorabilia to walk through and things that you could buy right now - dishes, clothes, vintage items. One large bathroom - roomy and clean with a super funny and relevant sign above the toilet. Welcomed into the place and asked if we were eating with them or was it take away. Eating In. Found the cafe part of the place stood and pondered the menu (pretty much same menu as posted in the pics) and decided what meats we each wanted on our 2 meat plate + 2 sides. Spicy sausage link with cheese, brisket, slaw and potato salad for him; ham and turkey meat for me with the beans (warned that they'd be talking later) and slaw. Each had a big slice of bread + butter and a sugar cookie. Drinks of lemonade and unsweetened tea were all you could drink and came as part of the meal. There are canned sodas and bottled Coca Cola for an extra price. I saw there was fresh coffee in the pot. All food was very delicious, fresh made, and served generous sized portions. We had so much leftovers we have a good start on tonight's dinner/supper. On the television was the Western/INSP channel with High Chaparral playing. Blast from the past. Great Wall art all over the place, and even outside on the "patio" area where there's cooking going on (spare ribs were smoking for tomorrow's customers). This looks to be a family run business with a friendly attitude. As the husband went to pay the owner-ess started to type in the credit card machine. My husband asked "Do you take cash" to which she replied "yes, we just do see it much." There ain't many a truer statement, everywhere we go it's typically the card. Husband tried to leave a tip and she wouldn't accept it. Just come on back again. I highly recommend this place as a stop over for a leisurely, friendly meal. As we left, the husband said "Nice ole folks ... Usually we have to pay for the cookie (home baked sugar cookie) and they gave it to us free as part of the meal."

Different place-- attached to a hardware store. Pretty good barbeque. We shared a plate of ribs…read moreand brisket. Friendly service.

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Watson's BBQ
Watson's BBQ
Watson's BBQ

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Pork N Things BBQ

Pork N Things BBQ

4.6(62 reviews)
74.7 mi
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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.

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Pork N Things BBQ - Nice, clean, and roomy spaces in the back.

Nice, clean, and roomy spaces in the back.

Pork N Things BBQ - 2 individual Pork Ribs $7.00 & 1/4 lb Sliced Briskets $8.25

2 individual Pork Ribs $7.00 & 1/4 lb Sliced Briskets $8.25

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