The Best Restaurants in Burleson, Texas

The highest rated restaurant in Burleson on the one platform where the ratings come from people who actually booked a table. OpenTable has it at 4.7, in a price band of roughly $31 to $50, which puts it above everything else in town on both counts. It is described as American with Southwestern and steakhouse leanings, and reviewers single out the BTX rolls, the prime rib and the pumpkin cheesecake.

First because it is the only restaurant in Burleson doing scratch cooking, craft cocktails and live music in one room, and because Old Town is where you want to be before and after dinner anyway. One honest warning from the reviews. The dining room runs loud, so it is a better choice for a night out than for a conversation.

The Burleson branch opened on March 14, 2005 in the old Wilson Brothers Company building, which has housed a business on Main Street since 1905 and once sold hardware, carriages and buggies downstairs while making caskets in an upstairs funeral parlor. Babe's tells that story on its own location page, which is more local history than most restaurants bother with.

Second because it is the meal most people drive to Burleson for. Fried chicken, hickory smoked chicken, chicken fried steak, tenders or catfish, each arriving with house salad, mashed potatoes, cream gravy, green beans, corn and buttermilk biscuits, all of it passed round the table. It is a North Texas family owned group rather than a one off, which we would rather say plainly than leave you to find out.

A family run brewpub in Old Town with its own beer, house smoked barbecue, burgers, sandwiches and brunch, plus a rooftop SkyBar that is the only one in town. It worked well enough in Burleson that the family opened a second, larger location on Camp Bowie in Fort Worth, which both the Fort Worth Business Press and Fort Worth Weekly covered as a spin off of this original.

Third because it is the most Burleson thing on this list. A town of fifty thousand that grew its own brewpub into Fort Worth is a better story than any of the chains on the Wilshire Boulevard retail strip, and the beer is made on the premises rather than brought in.

Owned by Pook and Victor Thothong, who describe the aim as the freshest and most authentic dishes from the different regions of Thailand, served the way family meals are served. It carries roughly 618 Google reviews at about 4.5, which is the largest review base of any independent restaurant in Burleson and a strong score to hold across that many.

Fourth because it is the best food in Burleson that you cannot get anywhere else nearby, and because the quality has survived a rename and a second location in Crowley. Reviewers name the Hainanese chicken, the pad Thai and the jasmine milk tea most often. The CultureMap write up that first put it on our list described a northern Thai khao soi, which is not on any current menu we could find, so do not go expecting it.

The other Burleson restaurant that takes bookings through OpenTable, where it sits between 4.5 and 4.7 across somewhere between 56 and 120 reviews depending on which snapshot you read. It is in the Old Town Station development on East Renfro rather than on Main Street itself, which is a short drive from the rest of this list rather than a walk.

Fifth because it is the most useful restaurant in Burleson for awkward timing. It opens Sunday at ten, runs through the afternoon when most kitchens here shut, and takes takeaway orders by phone. The hours are the one thing the listings disagree on hardest, with one showing a weekday breakfast window that the others do not, so treat the schedule above as a starting point.

Tex-Mex comfort food next to more regional Mexican cooking, from a family that also runs a location in Watauga. The tableside guacamole is not a gimmick added for the listings, it is in the restaurant's own job descriptions for its floor staff, which is about as good a confirmation as you get. CultureMap's Old Town Burleson guide named the tacos costillas, made with St Louis cut ribs and a chipotle barbecue sauce.

Sixth because it is the sit down Mexican restaurant in Old Town and it is good, but the weekday hours are awkward. Tuesday through Thursday it does not open until four in the afternoon, which rules out lunch on three of the seven days.

Burgers made from beef that is never frozen, chips made in house, and shakes, malts and floats built on Blue Bell. Happy hour runs Monday to Friday from 3pm to 7pm with beer served at 29 degrees and fried pickles. The Burleson branch publishes its address, phone number and hours plainly on the company's own site, which put it ahead of several places here on verifiability alone.

Seventh because it is a Texas group with eight locations rather than a Burleson original, and we would rather tell you that than dress it up. It is still the best burger in Old Town and a far better choice than the national chains out on Wilshire.

A small Mexican kitchen on the Burleson Boulevard side of town rather than in Old Town, rating around 4.5 across the review aggregators, with reviewers describing it as a small town spot where the tacos are the thing. It is the counterpoint to Fresco's, cheaper, plainer and open at lunch when Fresco's is not.

Last because the available information on it is the thinnest here. It has no website, the published hours stop after Tuesday on every listing we found, and we could not confirm the founding year that several roundups assert, so we have left it out rather than repeat it. The address and phone number are consistent across every source, which is why it stays on the list.