Dining out can now be a part of a heart healthy eating plan when you look for the St. Joseph Best Bets Logo at participating restaurants. These items have undergone a nutritional review by a local dietitian and can be ordered or prepared in a heart healthy manner which is lower in fat.

Steaks (cont.)

KEN MARTIN'S STEAK HOUSE

Location: 3231 E. 29th St. (B)
Phone: 776-7500
Hours: Daily, 11 am to 9:30 pm

Try Ken Martin’s all-you-careto- eat food bar. The food bar contains three meat entreés, three vegetables, soups, desserts and regular salad bar. Try their ribeyes, sirloins, fajitas, burgers, catfish, shrimp or grilled chicken dishes. Their homemade rolls are the best, along with the best chicken fried steak in town. Ken Martin’s Steak House offers banquet facilities for parties of 55 persons, and catering services for parties of 50-1,000 persons. Try the best chicken-fried steak in town!

LONGHORN TAVERN STEAKHOUSE

Location: 1900 Hwy. 21 E. (B)
Phone: 778-3900
Hours: Mon – Sat, 11 am to 9 pm

Three little words — chickenfried steak. That’s why people from miles around drive to the Longhorn Tavern Steakhouse. Won first place for best chicken-fried steak since 1991, including the 2002 Restaurant Survey. In addition to the award-winning chickenfried steaks, they serve up a daily mouth-watering blue plate lunch special Monday through Friday starting at 11 am — but ya’ better get there early, or they’ll all be gone.

OUTBACK STEAKHOUSE

Location: 2102 Texas Ave. S. (CS)
Phone: 764-4329
Hours: Mon-Thurs, 5 to 10 p.m; Fri, 4 - 11 pm; Sat, 3 -11 pm; Sun, noon - 9 pm

G’day Mates! A long-time local favorite, if you’re eating good in Aggieland, your eating at the Outback Steakhouse. Steak’s on the menu, so’s ribs, chicken, shrimp and fish of the day! And who among you hasn’t heard of the Bloomin’ Onion? Try it once and you’ll be back for more. Our full service bar featuring domestic and imported beers, wine and great specialty drinks can wet any Drover’s whistle. So what are you waiting for? Make it an Outback night.

TONIGHT! SMOKING MESQUITE STEAK HOUSE & TAVERN

Location: 1976 State HWY 36 S Caldwell
Phone: 979-567-9800
Website: www.thesmokingmesquite.com
Hours: Mon-Thur 11 a.m.-9 p.m., Fri-Sat 11 a.m.-10 p.m., Sun 11 a.m. -3 p.m.

Located on the south side of Caldwell on Highway 36, the Smoking Mesquite, a new, but already well-known steak house serves a mesquite flavored charbroiled steak of your choice ... Sirloin, Rib Eye, T-Bone, Flat Iron or Tenderloin. Also available during dinner is a true outdoor barbecue pit smoked beef, pork ribs and sausage by the sandwich, plate or pound with our homemade barbecue sauce on the side, our own homemade chicken fried steak, hamburger steak, grilled and fried seafood and chicken items, as well as a lunch buffet Mon-Fri. You’ll enjoy our salad bar as well as choice of two sides and our homemade cobbler of the day all included in the entree price. Start your evening in our Tavern or Pation or relax there after your meal, welook forward to having you visit us.

SODOLAK’S ORIGINAL COUNTRY INN

Location: Hwy. 60 W. Snook
Phone: 272-6002

If you’re a true steak lover, Sodolak’s is the place to go for the best steak in these parts. There they sell steak by the pound - not the ounce! Also offered is a full menu of mouth-watering selections. There’s a kid’s menu, too.

SODOLAK’S BEEFMASTERS

Location: 3500 HWY 21 East (B)
Phone: 778-4999
Hours: Mon-Thur 11 am-9 pm, Fri-Sat 11 am-10 pm.

Sit down with a fresh, made-toorder steak or our blue plate dinner special in an easy, country atmosphere. Enjoy our delicious appetizers, tantalizing seafood, with a variety of side orders. Or you’re welcome to take home any choices from our menu. We also have a kid’s menu.

T-BONE JONES

Location: 809 E. University (CS)
Phone: 846-6823
Hours: Tues-Sat, 5 - 10 pm; Happy hour 5-6:30 p.m. Closed Sun & Mon

The “Cattle-lac” of all restaurants. T-Bone Jones is a real Texas steakhouse, specializing in, what else, beef. The signature meal is the 18 ounce T-bone steak, prepared exactly the way you like it. The menu also has some lighter fare, including fried alligator and salmon.

TEXAS ROADHOUSE

Location: 1601 University Dr. E. (CS)
Phone: 268-0558
Hours: Mon - Fri., open at 4 pm; Sat-Sun, open at 11 am

Texas Roadhouse combines casual family dining with a full service bar in a southwest “Roadhouse” atmosphere. Peanuts are stored in oak whiskey barrels and a tin bucket of peanuts can be found at each table. The food at Texas Roadhouse is prepared fresh daily with hand selected aged beef, cut in-house and displayed both before and during cooking. Their ribs and open range chicken are slow cooked for optimum taste and tenderness. They use their own margarita recipe and beer is iced down in tubs because it’s better that way. Texas Roadhouse offers an “Early Bird Special” on Monday thru Thursday between 4 and 6 p.m. Voted favorite overall Restaurant and Favorite Steak in 2004.

WRANGLER STEAKHOUSE

Location: 8731 Hwy 6 (NAV), at the Anderson/Brenham exit
Phone: 936-870-3401
Hours: Mon - Sun, 11 am - 10 pm; Lunch buffet, 11 am-1:30 pm; Lunch menu, 11 am-5 pm; Dinner menu, 5-10 pm.

This quality steakhouse features only the best certified Angus beef ribeyes, T-bones and sirloins you’ve every put on your fork! Our great fresh-baked rolls will keep you happy and our fried shrimp and chicken fried steak will make you think we’ve got your mom in the kitchen.