Ordered the pork chop with mac & cheese and coleslaw on Sunday, was supposed to be 15oz and bone in, but what I got was smaller and no bone (waitress said 14oz, cited COVID changes - menu a year out of date?). The sides were very good, but not even A1 could save the chops. Very dry. The service was pretty good while eating, food took a while but there were 16 of us, so that's normal. Waitress seemed good, then she appeared out of nowhere as I was telling a friend my food was dry (he asked, I answered politely), so I apologized and said I didn't see her. She had a look but acted fine. Then she went to the registers behind the second table my group had and started cussing and talking crap about my table. We're bikers and my group is the type that is polite to a fault and tips 40-100% on everything; no ma'am, yes ma'am, thank you ma'am, please, etc. We don't complain or get loud. I was also the one who not only asked how she was doing at the start, but I caught her frustration and gave her a chance to vent about being shorthanded and vey busy that day - it was friendly and light. How she then went on her quiet little rant full of f-bombs over a table she had to sneak up on to hear anything negative is beyond me. Totally unacceptable. Will not be back. Server was Tasha at 15:05 on 3/7/21, ticket #20016. Tipped $10 on a $20.30 ticket before knowing what was said, because that food didn't deserve a tip - normally tip $20 for that bill. read more

We enjoyed ourselves here. My wife had the Chicken fried steak it was huge i had the star nachos the could had had some jalapeño on them to make them better but they were both delicious! Server was friendly and informative. read more

Excellent friendly vibe. Watched the game and had a great time. The food and service was great and top notch. Highly recommend I will be back! read more

Great food ! Service is fast and friendly and drinks are really good . I like the separate bar and dinning areas and the patio is really nice too . Food is always on point read more

Food was just ok. Server was friendly but pretty slow. Unsure if they were under staffed.

This is a fav for date nights for my husband and I . The food is always great and the drinks are good too. There's live music on some nights and a covered patio . I usually have a steak or catfish and there both amazing . But I've never has anything here I didn't like . Staff is friendly and restaurant is clean and well kept . read more

We love this little gem! Their food and drink selection is great and the wait staff is very professional and friendly. On our first trip, the waitress suggested the Bacon-wrapped Jalapeño Poppers and we are so glad she did! Yummmm! We even took our in-laws while they were out to visit and they loved it too! They also have a bar area with a few golfing arcade games. We will have to check that out on our next date night! read more

Wow. Just stopping on my way to Oklahoma and happened to find an amazing restaurant. Food was incredible. The chicken fried steak was so tender I didn't need a fork! How often do you see that? The atmosphere is cowboy chic with plenty of animal heads on the wall, so if that kind of thing offends you skip this place. Friendly staff and affordable prices. Try it if you are in the neighborhood. read more

We are from Indiana and stopped in on our way home. Neat little place with pretty good food. Really loved the pickles and fries! My husband enjoyed his pizza! My burger was very well done so couldn't really enjoy it but overall the experience was pleasant! read more

I had the Saturday daily special brisket sandwich and fries. It came with horseradish and au ju. Sooooo good. Great service. Will definitely return. read more

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This was our second visit here in two weeks, the service is spot on (Carter)! Both steaks we ordered were tender and cooked perfectly, sides are fresh and very tasty. Live music in the bar ! Bonus! Very laid back easy listening,,,, keep up the good work we will see ya in a couple weeks. read more

Been coming here for years. BEST consistent- Food, Food Value (Priced right), Service and Atmosphere! Live music is outstanding (maybe a bit loud...) BEST down home bar (full menu) in Texoma Land! Its hard to find these "one-off" places anymore... read more

Food is good. Portions are generous. Why give a negative review? TO GO ORDERS ARE VERY ONEROUS. It takes sometimes over an hour for them to answer their phone. GEEZ!! Answer the dang phone! read more

Thank goodness they are finally smoke free inside! Food is still great. Wait staff is attentive. Wish the patio was smoke free as well.

Meh at best. 1/2" thick steak drowned in Mrs.Dash lemon pepper and tasted like it was cooked on a George Forman grill. Good to see that Kraft Mac and cheese tastes like it always has, and that beer isn't as good at 50°. Good food if you have the taste palette of a 6 year old. read more

I moved into a different area of the restaurant to listen to live music. My current waitress refused to serve me, and no one else would because I moved. Such GREAT sevice....not.. read more

Overpriced and mediocre food. Don't understand why it is so busy at times. There are many better choices in the area.

We love going to the North Rig Grill, our favorite spot is the bar or patio in the summer. Sports, live music, great food, great drinks and service is awesome!! The servers remember us and treat us like we own the place. It is at the top of our favorite list! read more

First time trying this place out and it seems like the Cotton Patch Cafe share the same service and employees. I'm sure everyone loves waiting for there food and refill while they watch the assigned waitress sit down at a table with friends and chit chat about there day. Amazing time. read more

I eat here today food was gross and I got sick not long later 48 dollars for nothing

Clean, laid back atmosphere, smoker friendly, good food, and good service. Went here for the 3rd time tonight, was on a first date. Both drank draft beer, had a cigar, and ordered a ribeye med well. Everything was great, and the steak was amazing. Will go back for sure! read more

We've come in several times, and while the food is good, the service is not. We've tried again and again. Rarely is our drinks refilled. Most of the time, they take our orders, bring food and forget about us until the check comes. My husband likes to order all you can eat catfish on Sundays but you can't get anyone to come to get him more fish. Yesterday was probably the last time. She DID stop and ask if he would like more fish, and he said yes, the much later asked if he ever got it. I never got a drink refill once. And it's like this each time. I'm generally patient with servers, their job isn't easy and they have a lot going on, but it shouldn't be like this every time you go. read more

We visited this restaurant on an 8/12 Friday night around 7pm-ish, so I wasn't sure how it would go for a first impression. It was our 21st Wedding Anniversary and enjoying a stay out of town. When we arrived, there were two hostesses at the station. We walk in and stand for a bit. One hostess appears very disengaged and not wanting to be there...the other turns toward us, waits a moment, and then asks if we'd like a table. We said yes and puzzled as if we were missing something. So we were ushered to a table. Not feeling too good so far, the waitress comes over, very smiley and friendly..and remained so through the rest of our visit. Feeling better about this. We place our order. We ordered the rib-eye, mac/cheese, wild rice, and garlic mashed potato combo. It arrived moments later and the waitress has separated it out for us into two different portions. We mentioned were were going to share and she went above and beyond to do this automagically for us. Score. The food. Man, this was the best part. The ribe-ye was cooked exactly to our preference, great smokey taste ad flavor. The mac and cheese looked plain but once we took a taste, it was WOW....very good. The rice was perfect as well. The garlic mashed potatoes were ok...needed more butter. Bottomline: Initial impression from the host station almost made us leave, but once we go to the table, it went from 1 star to 4. Great food, good pricing, and good portion size. We'll be back. read more

Went in April, 2014. Food was good, service good, atmosphere o.k. Nothing out of the ordinary but not bad either. Haven't been back since, so don't know if improved or not. read more

Simple food done right. The patio is the place to be in the summer, and they have live music on Thursdays. A great hang out place, especially once you get to know the staff, especially everyone who works on the bar side! read more

First time here & we were very impressed. Very clean, service was great, food was awesome and not pricey at all. We will definitely be coming back here soon. read more

My girlfriend and I went to North Rig Grill in Denison for our date night and it was the first time going for both of us. The staff were very friendly and the food was very good. I ordered the 14oz ribeye and it was cooked exactly how I asked. It was definitely a place I would go to again and I really have no complaints at all. read more

Meh...Ordered the Reuben sandwich and what meat that was in it was very fatty and I had to chew for several minutes on each bite. I could only eat one half which is sad because it was so small. 10 minutes later my stomach was on the fence if it was going to keep or send it back. If a restaurant can not make a decent Rueben it speaks volumes to me...smh Wife had the Ribeye and said it was ok kind of bland and had to salt it, also the server ask if she needed A-1 sauce. If your a seasoned steak eater you know a good steak never needs a sauce to help get it down. She said my steaks are much much better at half the cost. The server was friendly and did a good job so that is good for an extra star. read more

Awful food. None of our dishes we ordered had any taste to them. It tasted like the food was washed after it was cooked. Everything was bland. Also, every dish we ordered was cold. How is it even possible to mess up cooking french fries??? Their french fries were terrible. The jumbo shrimp are not jumbo. The waitress dropped my son's meal and then she said she would remake it but she ended up forgetting. I hope to never eat here ever again. read more

No problem on a Sunday afternoon getting a table. The salmon was well-seasoned and moist. The steak my mum ordered was exactly medium rare. Unfortunately, ate everything and had no room for dessert. Will have to try for next time. read more

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Worst food in Denison!! Manager is practically an idiot, doesn't know how to run a business at all. Service bad, waitress seemed like she had no training whatsoever. Better food across the street at McDonalds. read more

The only reason I have this one star is because it is the smallest I can. The steak and hamburger patty was way under cooked. The head chef got in my face until my husband stopped him. Rude people and terrible food. read more

We went to this restaurant this past weekend based on the reviews here in yelp. Our first impression was their very tattered flags outside. We find it rather disrespectful to fly tattered flags. The waitress was good and made the food sound really tasty. My mom ordered the fried catfish, on the waitress's description of a big thick very lightly breaded piece of fish, not what you normally get at other restaurants. My dad ordered a hamburger based on her recommendation, with mayonnaise and no tomato or mustard with hand cut french fries. I ordered the chicken strips with their house seasoning mixed into the batter (also by her recommendation) with the macaroni and cheese that someone had said in their review was wonderful spirals. After waiting a seemingly long time we received our food. Mom's catfish was thin breaded strips. Her squash medly was thin cut overcooked zucchini and yellow squash. My plate had mashed potatoes instead of macaroni and cheese. I decided to try them and they were cold, so I asked her for the macaroni which was tasteless and dry with very little "sauce". The chicken tenders were overcooked, dry, and severely underseasoned, especially since I had asked them to add their house "monterrey style" seasoning to the batter. Also, they did not remove the tendons from the tenderloins, which I personally have an aversion for. They are so easy to remove, I never understand when restaurants skip it. My dad's hamburger was overcooked and dry, on a limp, squashed bun, with mustard and no mayonnaise. His fries were greasy and undercooked. None of us ate very much and we stopped at Chili's a couple of hours later. But our server was very kind and good at talking up the food! Very quick to fix the mistakes the kitchen had made with the food. read more

This is probably our favorite home-style cooking in the area. Great lunch menu until 5 pm. Screens for sports enthusiasts, etc. Comfortable ambiance. Definitely recommended! Thumbs Up. read more

This is my dad's favorite spot. They have weekday specials for 6 bucks. I highly recommend the chicken fried steak and mashed potatoes. You cant beat that for six bucks. On Saturdays they usually have the Rig Burger and fries for 5 bucks. I have never been able to go on a Wednesday but my dad raves about their Wednesday Enchilada Special. They have great tea and really nice servers. Also quite possibly the most comfortable chairs you will find in a restaurant. read more

The CFS sandwich was huge, tender, delicious, and reasonably priced. I could only eat half of it. I will definitely stop here again. read more

It's great food The service is good but if you order something(over the phone) like a potato for example if you ask for no onions and no mushrooms they will put extra read more

Love going here for happy hour and dinner. Service is always nice and attentive! I love how you can get healthy options that align with my personal goals! read more

We had high hopes for North Rig Grill. There on Labor Day 2017 on our way home from a trip to Branson. On Labor Day your choices in Denison are few. The decore of the restaurant is odd, is it an oil well theme or African Safari theme? It seems as though a Retired Texas Oil Man who likes to hunt decided on a whim to open a restaurant and decorated with leftovers from his Trophy room and a few oil and gas murals and equipment implements. All decorating fopah's aside the food is neither on point or well prepared. I was exited to see a flat iron steak on the Menu, as was my wife, along with an option to "blacken it" The order? Mine was a Blackened Flatiron steak with a side of Onion rings and green beans, my wife's order was a flat iron topped with sautéed Mushrooms and garlic mashed potatoes, after a long drive from Branson we were hungry and ready for a good Texas Flatiron steak. What arrived was not good at all, our waitress was cheerful and well intentioned, but the kitchen staff needs guidance.. first of all, it was Not a Flatiron it was a sirloin. A Flatiron has a consistent grain and from the shoulder, this was definitely a square cut of sirloin, meant to disguise the cut. Blackening a steak or cut of fish is an art. To Blacken correctly you usually drench the surface of both sides of the cut of meat in butter, liberally coat with blackened spice blend (a blend of cayenne, black and white pepper and onion, salt and paprika) then heat an iron skillet with a thin layer of oil to smoking heat 500-600 degrees, at which time the meat is sizzled on each side in order to form a nice blackened spicy yet un-burned crust leaving the inner meat at a nice medium rare to medium temp. My suggestion to the chefs at North Rig, "take your job seriously and watch a few YouTube videos on how to blacken a steak". You obviously have no idea what you are doing in the kitchen. My steak was grilled not blackened and in like manner my wife's Flatiron steak that was supposed to be smothered in mushrooms was served bare with a small bowl of unseasoned partially sautéed mushrooms on the side. Again FAIL! Her Garlic Mashed potatoes were Luke warm and unseasoned, my green beans were Frozen from a bag with what looks like the telltale green food coloring of green giant green beans in a bag, utter fail. If I wanted a TV dinner I would buy a Swanson and take it to a hotel room because that is basically what they serve, frozen food improperly cooked. So sad. read more

We had originally decided on Cotton Patch but waiting list was long. Saw the North Rig Grill next door so went there. Upon entering notice a stuffed leopard on a tree limb. I almost walked out but was with a friend so went ahead and stayed. The owner of this place must be a Big Game Trophy Hunter. I did not enjoy my meal because I was so upset that the leopard had been killed to entertain someones sick desire to have a trophy. There were a lot more trophy's in other areas of the place. I will never go here again. Also, The waitress was not wearing a mask. I can't tell you how the food was because the site of that leopard left a bad taste in my mouth. We must all be the voice of the voiceless and save the wonderful African wildlife. read more