The Best Steak at Texas Roadhouse, Ranked
Ten cuts, four price tiers, one eternal question. The best steak at Texas Roadhouse depends on what you are optimizing for, and this guide ranks all of them by the three axes that matter: money, flavor and moment. Every price and calorie figure comes from the current menu data, and every recommendation comes from the accumulated wisdom of a thousand rib-eye debates.
Best Overall Value: 6 oz Hand-Cut Sirloin, $14.49
At $14.49 with two sides and 250 calories, the Hand-Cut Sirloin is the best steak-per-dollar in American chain dining. Lean, beefy, cut in-house that morning. Order it medium-rare and it outperforms steaks twice its price. This is the cut the chain's reputation was built on.
Best Flavor: Ft. Worth Ribeye, from $24.99
The Ft. Worth Ribeye wins every blind flavor test that has ever been conducted at a Roadhouse table. Marbling melts through the 12 oz cut over the grill, and the 960-calorie figure is simply what flavor costs. The most forgiving cut for medium-plus orders too.
Most Tender: Dallas Filet, from $23.99
The Dallas Filet is the fork-cuttable one: 6 oz of tenderloin at $23.99 and just 270 calories. It is the anniversary order, the first-steak-ever order, and the steak for people who value texture over big beef flavor. Never order it past medium; it has no fat to forgive you.
Best Kept Secret: Road Kill, $13.99
The Road Kill chop steak at $13.99 is not technically a whole-muscle steak, and it does not care. Fresh-ground beef grilled like a steak, smothered in onions, mushrooms and jack cheese. The cheapest full plate in the steak section and the one regulars order when nobody is watching.
The Big Night Cuts
The Porterhouse T-Bone at $34.99 is two steaks on one bone: a strip and a filet, made for sharing. The Bone-In Ribeye at $30.99 is the single-eater flex. And the Prime Rib from $25.99, slow roasted and sliced to order, sells out on weekends because the roast is finite and the fans are not.
Whichever cut wins your evening, the full lineup with every size and price sits on the steak menu page, and weekday visitors should check whether their pick rides the Early Dine discount before 6 PM.