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Bites Nearby: Texas Roadhouse

Hand-cut steaks and made-from-scratch recipes in cookie-cutter façades.

When the country western music is pulsing on the jukebox, the steaks are hand-cut and the ribs fall off the bone, maybe it doesn’t matter that the chain started in Indiana.

The restaurants stake their reputation on serving large portions at reasonable prices, and they capitalize on a friendly Texas feel.  

Steaks are the stars of the menu. They are hand-cut daily in house and cooked over gas grills. Texas Roadhouse offers numerous popular cuts, each in several sizes to custom fit guests’ appetites. In addition to sirloin, bone-in ribeye, prime rib, T-bone and filet, there are sirloin kabobs and the affectionately-named “Road Kill”( chopped steak smothered in sautéed onions, mushrooms and jack cheese).

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Beyond steak, Texas Roadhouse has plenty of down home dishes: half or full slab ribs, pulled pork, barbecue chicken, country fried chicken, dressed-up burgers and more.

Limited seafood choices are salmon, shrimp and southern-fried white fish. Dinners and platters come with rib-stickin’ sides such as chili, baked beans, baked potatoes, sweet potatoes and steak fries.

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Starters include boneless buffalo wings, fried pickles, jalapeño-based rattlesnake bites and a hand-battered fried onion blossom for two.

Maintaining the Texas theme, some of the meals on the kids menu are fashioned to appeal to little “rangers.”

The Lower Macungie location of Texas Roadhouse, on Hamilton Boulevard near Walmart -- like most of the restaurants in the group -- is open for dinner only during the week, and lunch and dinner on the weekends.

6268 Hamilton Blvd., Lower Macungie, PA  18106. 

610-395-2611. 

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