The Best Steakhouses in Amarillo

This is the one Amarillo restaurant built around steak as an occasion rather than steak as a plate of food. The menu runs prime cuts, chops and seafood, with A5 wagyu when it is available, and the bar program is the most serious in the city. It opened in 2016 and changed hands in June 2023.

The room is dark wood, chandeliers and portraits, closer to a speakeasy than a ranch house, which is a deliberate break from every other steakhouse on this list. It sits in the Town Square development off Soncy Road in the southwest, not downtown, so plan the drive.

A small roadhouse about 20 minutes from downtown that does almost nothing except steak, and does it over live fire. The steaks are aged, hand cut and cooked over charcoal and mesquite, and the menu is short enough that ribeye or filet is close to the whole decision. The house motto, no small steaks and no hot beer, has been on the wall for years.

This is the answer when a local is asked where the best steak in Amarillo actually is, as opposed to where the best steakhouse is. It is also the cheapest good steak on this list by a wide margin.

OHMS is not a steakhouse by name, and it belongs here anyway, because the grilled ribeye is one of the two or three best steaks in the city and the only one you can walk to from a downtown hotel. The kitchen mixes New Mexican and Panhandle cooking rather than doing a straight chophouse menu.

It carries an entry in the Texas Monthly restaurant directory, which almost nothing else in Amarillo does. The bar stays open late on Friday and Saturday, well past the kitchen.

R. J. "Bob" Lee opened this on Route 66 in 1960 and moved it to the I-40 frontage when the interstate bypassed the old highway. The 72 ounce steak is free if you finish it, plus the sides, inside an hour. The restaurant's own accounting puts attempts past 50,000 and finishers under 9,000.

Judge it honestly. The everyday steaks are good, not the best in town, and you are partly paying for a room with a stage, a shooting gallery, a gift shop, a brewery and a fleet of longhorn limousines. For a first visit to Amarillo that trade is worth making.

The restaurant on the ground floor of The Barfield, the restored 1927 office building now run as a Marriott Autograph Collection hotel. It calls itself a cowboy steakhouse with international flair, which in practice means the filet and the handmade pasta sit on the same menu and the ingredients are pulled from West Texas ranches and farms.

It is the most reliable downtown option simply because it is open all day, every day, which is rarer in Amarillo than it sounds.

An Italian kitchen that has quietly become one of the better places in Amarillo to order beef. The chef's list runs to a wagyu ribeye alongside slow roasted pork shank and Chilean sea bass, and the cellar carries over 400 selections, which is the deepest wine list on this page after Metropolitan.

It has been in the Wolflin area long enough to be a standing anniversary reservation for a lot of Amarillo families.

The default Amarillo steakhouse, in the good sense. Certified Angus Beef cuts, made from scratch sides, burgers and chicken fried steak on the same menu, and a room hung with Texas memorabilia. It is part of a small Texas family owned group rather than a national chain, which is why the kitchen still tastes like one.

Take a table here when the group includes somebody who does not want a steak. The non steak half of the menu is real, not an afterthought.

Crush is a wine bar first and a grill second, and the steaks hold up well enough that it has been a downtown fine dining fixture for years. The upstairs patio looking over Polk Street is the real draw, and there is live music on some evenings.

One thing to get right. The original Crush in Wolflin Village is closed. The location that is open is this one, at 7th and Polk downtown.