I've come to the realization there's two sides of Ol' Rooster. Yes, I can fancy up breakfast with exotic ingredients like arugula and balsamic drizzle over poached eggs. Then, there's Country Bumpkin me that fancies biscuits and gravy and an old fashioned greasy spoon morning after drinking. I can't count how many times I've passed Texas Grill. That includes being a passenger headed to mom's brothers place in Winchester circa early 80's to bypassing Bastrop on the way to Houston in the last ten years. Thing is, I'm dating a country girl these days who swears by their coffee and jelly options. We dined recently on a Saturday morning; heading south afterwards to the stock show in San Antonio. Place is similar to diners across 'Murica; counter seating along with a large dining area. Buffet area is for lunch; straight forward menu for breakfast. Veggie basket on the lunch menu was comical; mushrooms are a vegetable? Breakfast review: One egg ordered with soft bacon, crispy hash browns and a biscuit. I was even offered a bowl of gravy AND an extra biscuit if I was still hungry. WELL, I wasn't. Egg was cooked to order. Taters took up half the dang plate! Bacon was perfect. Smothered that damn biscuit and dumped half the shaker of pepper on it....Well done y'all. read more

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Regardless of the glowing commentary found on TripAdvisor or other tourist-driven platforms, I would encourage readers to approach such praise with a healthy degree of skepticism. While the restaurant presents itself as charming at first glance, the illusion quickly fades upon closer inspection. The facilities are notably dated, with restrooms that feel neglected rather than merely "vintage." Unfortunately, the food follows suit. The chicken arrived undercooked to the point of being unacceptable, the salads were devoid of flavor, and the mashed potatoes--if one dares to try them--proved equally disappointing. I found myself seated at the counter, making pleasant conversation with a delightful young waitress, which, regrettably, became the highlight of the entire experience. Any lingering amusement, however, was quickly diminished by a particularly persistent fly that seemed intent on joining me for dinner. In short, an establishment that relies far too heavily on appearance and reputation, while neglecting the fundamentals that truly matter. read more

Don't waste your time. Not a clean feel, bad service, over priced food. Better off going to Denny's down the road. I paid for my water down over priced coffee and left. read more

We went here for breakfast. I had a sausage and cheese omelette, along with their homemade biscuit, which were both delicious. The biscuit was light, not heavy (if you threw it at someone, they would have a concussion). My wife had the bacon and eggs, with home fries and toast. Never disappointed when we come here. The servers are always attentive. read more

A Jim's cafe type place, looks like it would work for very large groups. Service was quick and friendly! Husband got the chicken fried steak and enjoyed his- but the hash browns were on the tepid to cold side. My biscuits and gravy were just ok-the gravy could use a little help from a southern grandma throwing down. read more

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Food was okay. Service could have been better. Smells like cigarettes inside from years of being a smokers restaurant. I personally am not returning any time soon. read more

Food was mediocre. Old school but missing the boat. Cfs was ok but small. Sides were ok but green beans obviously from a can. Salad was chopped iceberg. Fast and moderately inexpensive. I'll go back maybe in 6 months. Sister had enchiladas said they were not good. read more

Service is fast, efficient and very good. Staff are very nice and friendly. It's a very country feel for a breakfast. I enjoyed it and will not mind coming back. read more

Texas Grill Restaurant No 2 - Coffee - American Near Me - Bastrop, Texas

The food reminded me of 1970 truck stop on Ben White years ago the atmosphere is lively truckers galore it is off of East 71 in Bastrop , I'm telling y'all if you haven't been to Bastrop in a while you will not recognize it change is there not a sleepy town Austin us moving . read more

Ok, this was a great breakfast! We were headed home from the Round Top Antique show. The hotel didn't have free breakfast, so we had to stop somewhere. I watched the waitresses greet many people by name, so this is a favorite of the locals. And I know why. It was great! My coffee cup was never below half full. I like breakfast at all 3 meals. Don't we all? Eggs, sausage, hash browns, and biscuits and gravy! And Tabasco sauce on it all! Breakfast of Champions! Glenda did biscuits and gravy, bacon, and a pancake. It was huge! We enjoyed every bite, and the waitress was awesome. We would definitely come here again. read more

Texas Grill Restaurant No 2 - Just like mama's home cooking! - American Near Me - Bastrop, Texas

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Excellent breakfast The portions are very large. I usually get the ham and cheese omelette with hash browns and toast, I'm a big old boy and I have never left hungry. The wait staff is exceptional, your coffee cup will never run dry. The food is great with a home cooked feel. You can pay the same price across the hiway for half the food at a chain restaurant that taste like a chain restaurant or you can sit down here and enjoy a really good old style diner that will have you looking forward to coming back before you ever leave! read more

Texas Grill Restaurant No 2 - Ham and Cheese omelette with hash browns and toast and the best coffee in town - American Near Me - Bastrop, Texas

They have a sign that says "Thanks Vets." As a veteran, your welcome. Food was ok. They don't offer any type of veteran discount. Thanks for the sentiment, it was a nice sentiment anyway. I will not be coming back. read more

Texas Grill Restaurant No 2 - Restaurant - American Near Me - Bastrop, Texas

Great went here for breakfast, got some pancakes they were pretty good. Had a large party but they were quick. They were very kind. Ambiance feels like home sweet home! read more

I love this restaurant. It's always provided me with a great breakfast and lunch when I'm head back to east Texas from Austin. The feel is comforting and the ladies that work the bar area are attentive and amazing. So whether you're starting the day and needing a hearty breakfast or maybe looking for filling lunch. Stop in because you will not be disappointed. read more

Solid traditional American breakfast. Dinner style food of good quality. Can't go wrong.

3 of us went here for breakfast this morning having traditional plates of eggs, hash browns, sausage, bacon, toast and toasted biscuits. Service was pretty good, the food was a standard fare. The place is old and could use a sprucing up. Ok clean and prices very reasonable. The toasted biscuits are really good. We will be back for a standard no frills breakfast at a reasonable price. read more

Hell yeah to the Texas Grill, the food was fantastic! Me and my family ordered chicken fried steaks and they were deeeelish! I loved our server she wasn't an annoying perky type but straight to the point and excellent at her job, we tipped her well. The Texas Grill reminded me of all those old time restaurants I used to eat at as a kid and they have all closed down. This even had the same smell that I always loved. Give the Texas Grill a try you might like it. read more

Prices are exorbitant for breakfast but there's no place like it for miles. Service is usually friendly. The flavors are good, especially the cinnamon toast. Pancakes are very good. But the prices seem out of line to this Texan. Also, they close too early. read more

I love this place. I've been coming here since I was a kid! There's just enough on the menu that you can get some home cooked meal. This place is a staple in Bastrop. One of my favorite breakfast places honestly! read more

Great food and very nice servers definitely recommend if you want some breakfast that tastes like a morning at grandmas house.

Best thing about this place was the server, who was very nice. Beyond that, the menu is pretty limited with not a spec of fruit anywhere on it. It's basically meat, eggs, and carbs. Coffee was hot but burned flavor. The quality of the food? I'm not a fan of either IHOP or Denny's, but both of these places offer food that is world's better. read more

Texas Grill Restaurant No 2 - Dining area - American Near Me - Bastrop, Texas

The food was terrible. I just spent 20mins on the bathroom. Chicken was dry, gravy is tasteless. Salad is not fresh and the ranch is yuck. Save yourself the trouble, there are plenty of better options close by. read more

We love the Texas grill. The breakfasts are great, with pancakes are the size of saddle blankets. The lunch is good 'ole Texas country food. The people are kind, cheerful and very attentive. Prices are good too. read more

It was alright. A little dirty/musty when we sat down in a booth. Some crumbs left in the crevices. Ummm the waitress had a little attitude which I suppose is understandable cause I changed my breakfast order to the burger. My family members got some breakfast and the potatoes had a very off taste. Not a very fresh one if so it was just disgusting. The burger was mid for 9$. Plus 3$ for fries??? Like what? I noticed it was 3$ to add bacon... Everything over priced for the quality. read more

Cafeteria food looked good. I got CFS with green beans, corn nuggets, pea salad, key lime pie, lemonade (tea is only available non sweet). Cost me $20. Food was ok (average). Staff was loud and rowdy and very friendly. Crowd seemed local and no customers under age 60. Reminded me of lunch at the senior center where the same meal was $2.50 and a larger crowd. read more

Great little old time Texas cafe. Awesome breakfast, with superb service. If you're ever in Bastrop, Texas at breakfast time it's the place to stop. read more

I was on my way from AUSTIN to my home on the water in Freeport and since it was still breakfast time on a Tuesday morning and I saw a billboard for this place on the highway, I made the U turn and pulled up in the parking lot. First of all I'm really critical of some cafes especially breakfast and buffet type places. I would not hesitate to send something back to the kitchen. So, looking around at the inside of this place I was really not that impressed and frankly expected the worst.... I usually make bad decisions about new places! I was greeted quickly by a pleasant, business like waitress with a menu. I ordered 2 eggs over easy with medium bacon, grits and white toast, with butter on the side..( I never say REAL butter )! Oh... and black coffee which was really good. In a few minutes, JOJO, my waitress brought everything else out. I was just starting to be impressed. The eggs were hot and perfectly cooked, 3 slices of bacon perfect again. But what I was really impressed with was a container with thinly sliced REAL butter for my grits and toast! JOJO did it that way because the butter, being still cold would have been hard to spread.....Wow that was something special that you don't much find in a server. All in all it was a fine experience and I will definitely go back again. Shame on the bad reviewers, most of them anyway! I know that you can't always be this excellent, but this time, thanks to JOJO My trip home was a lot more enjoyable. read more

First Timers at Texas Grill. People are sweet and accommodating. FOOD WAS SATISFYING AND YUMMY.

Don't let the sign fool ya, I was expecting a steak house atmosphere. I was a little surprised when we went inside. It nothing more than a truck stop cafe. We decided to go ahead and try it, wish we had looked it up on Yelp before hand. Food on the buffet was luke warm and pretty much flavorless. Not a clean table in the place, waitress wiped it off with a stained rag... hope it wasn't the same rag used to clean the potty in the men's bathroom. Second thought it couldn't have been because it was dirty too. read more

This is your typical VERY Casual old fashioned roadside diner .... I did mention it was VERY casual. The Sunday after church crowd looked more like the Sunday crowd at Galveston at a Dennys.....so don't dress up, come however you are. 11:30 to 2pm they have buffet....sort if like a small limited selection Lubys daily. Pay for what you eat. They also have sit down area. And its seat yourself by the way. Their breakfast seems to be the thing to order. Hamburger and fries was good. No sweet potatoe here. They have one salad on the menu. .... but it sure looked good and fresh. Now as to the wait staff...an older group of folks that for me just added to the overall ambiance with a grumpiness that is just laughable. The use of the word ambiance I need rethink... it's a fancy word and this is an adorable country diner. Kid friendly. City folk weekend biker friendly. Just country friendly. There is NO pretentiousness here. And I found that refreshing. It's rather charming actually. Even my waitress literally dropping the napkin wrapped silver?ware to the "you still want that plate" LOL. Now.... I cleaned my plate so the food is good and in thevsthle of a classic greasy spoon diner good. Plus I was sort of fearing a lecture on wasting my food from my grandma waitress. LOL. I will so be back! Now when you want to pay remember you need to walk up to the cash register to pay like any good country diner worth its salt. And please remember to tip your grumpy waitress or waiter. ;) They are actually really nice when you spend the time to talk with them. Cheers! On to my next Dining adventure. read more

Stopped here after seeing a billboard. Overpriced...overpriced...overpriced. Steak sandwich was weird, the meat was dry, and tasteless. The cafeteria lunch buffet was weird. Entree $6 Each side $3 Roll $.30 Pickle $.15 Over complicating lunch...priceless No thanks.... read more

Any place that ALLOWS smoking gets my vote! Went for breakfrast a few weeks ago and had the steak and eggs with cheesy grits and toast. The coffee was good, the steak was kinda cold, and the grits were instant. But that's what I'd expect from the look of the place! I was full at the end, and didn't feel sick later, so it wasn't that bad. Today the wife and I had the chicken fried steak. It was good. The breading was basic and cooked just right. We were afraid of the salad bar at first, but it had pears and cantaloupe and was actually cold and pretty fresh. I've been to worse salad bars! Of course, my evil smoker taste buds could have been fooled, but for me and the wife, it has been a nice place to visit to get away from all the noisy big places in Austin. read more

Of all the places between Houston and Brownwood someone could stop, this has got to be one of the worst. The food is straight up overpriced on the menu, but sometimes they have a cafeteria style line set up and then you can get out of there for less than $10. However, the food is sub par, bland, tasteless and all around not worth the $6 I paid for it. I can't comment on the service, cause we really didn't have any. On the way to annual training with the guard, the whole convoy stopped here... I've had better food when deployed for a hurricane! read more

Food was really good, American food I got a homemade oatmeal and it was delish... Bit service was not so welcoming, our food took along time and to ask for more coffee was a hassle read more

My co-worker and I stopped by for breakfast. I enjoyed. A lot of past discussion on smoking. Appears to be smoke free. I had eggs, sausage, biscuits, hash brown, and coffee. The biscuits were fresh and fluffy. The hash browns were crisp on the outside and soft on the inside, the eggs cooked as ordered (scrambled). The only disappointment was the sausage. The sausage had no flavor. The coffee was strong, but good. The service was pretty good. We work EMS, so we are in a hurry, you never know when a call is going to drop and you have to run out the door. It seemed to take a time to place out order, but once placed, the service was excellent. We had a false call and almost had to run out the door. Our waitress had our food delivered in to go containers in case we got a second call. Look forward to trying out lunch. read more

Very good breakfast! Alicia was adorable and took great care of us. Charming to see how they know their customers. What they want, where they want to sit, what's going on in their lives! And they offer a lunch buffet that must be well known as folks were lining up for it! read more

This spot is interesting...when you walk through the door it is like stepping into a large version of your grandmothers dinning room, that was modern in 1950, and has become stuck in time. Don't let the room fool you, grandma is still in the kitchen! Texas Grill serves BIG portions so bring your appetite, you will NOT be disappointed. We ordered the Chicken Fried Steak and Half a Fried Chicken meals and both were mouthwatering and scrumptious. The fried chicken was just right with a thin fried exterior and a tender, juicy interior. LOVED this antique spot. Well worth the outing. read more

Great family restaurant, not fancy or pretentious, not a chain, inexpensive, friendly & mature staff (no twits, repulsive tats or face piercings that I've seen), fine breakfasts, buffet or menu. Lots of parking and big enough that there's rarely a wait. read more

The only decent thing here was the waitress! The food was disgusting, how do you screw up mashed potatoes, okra, black eyed peas and chicken fried steak! The batter was lumpy and tasted like old oil was used! Never again read more

After the Oyster Bar and Maxine's went non-smoking, it was only a matter of time...the Texas Grill is now non-smoking as well. Now, I can't say it's a smoke-free joint, exactly...there's a few generations' worth of tobacco byproducts in the walls, floor and ceiling, and a sharp new coat of paint won't make it disappear...but three cheers to the management for making the leap, risking the loss of some regulars but definitely attracting new business. These days at the Texas Grill, without the worry of second-hand smoke, you can take years off your life the old-fashioned way: with lots of eggs, bacon, ham, biscuits, butter, sausage, gravy, cheese (did I already say bacon?) and hot, black coffee with cream. Just like the cowboys did. read more