The Ranch House isn’t the best known barbecue restaurant in Glen Rose Texas, but the time we arrived in this small town it was one of the few still open. It’s a brown building on the side of Big Bend Trail (Highway 67) and has a huge sign to welcome you to the premises.
Inside there are plenty of picnic style tables, funny T-shirts and posters on the walls, longhorn and deer heads, and above the cash register are various paper currencies all taped to the roof.
The day we showed they had a $10 special, ribs with 2 sides. That sounded good and almost all of us got the special. Soda glasses were Texas sized. My daughter got chicken fingers, which were moist and tender and also plenty large.
Given the size of the ribs, they were almost certainly pork ribs. You could smell the smoke in the ribs before you could ever taste them. The smoked taste was there and the smoke ring easy enough to find. There was a smoke smell on our fingers an hour after we ate there. My brother said they were the best ribs he’s had in years. Then again, they don’t cook ‘em in Shanghai like they do in Glen Rose.
In my opinion these were first class ribs, would be no matter where they were made. The beans were good and the cole slaw was okay, but ribs this good would be worth going back for.
Service was very good. I never felt neglected in this eatery.
Verdict: Great ribs, good sides. Highly recommended.
Ranch House Barbecue
1408 Big Bend Trail
Glen Rose, TX 76043
(254) 897-3441
January 5, 2010 at 11:21 am
What a steal for $10. Those ribs and chicken fingers look huge!
January 5, 2010 at 12:55 pm
Yes, full sized ribs and four of them for ten dollars. There was also a steady flow of customers in and out of the eatery.
September 15, 2010 at 2:05 pm
WE SPENT THE WEEKEND IN GLEN ROSE AND ATE AT YOUR RESTAURANT,THE FOOD WAS ALRIGHT BUT DIDN”T LIKE HAVING TO GET OUR OWN DRINKS AND THEN TO TOP IT OFF MY DEBIT CARD WAS CHARGED 90.00 INSTEAD OF 36.20 WHICH WAS OWED AND BEEN TRYING TO CONTACT YOU FOR DAYS AND NO ANSWER SO I FILED A COMPLAINT WITH THE BBB IN FT.WORTH TX SO MAYBE YOU WILL RESPOND TO THEM. ALL I WANT IS THE 53.80 OWED TO ME PUT BACK ON MY DEBIT CARD MY PHONE NUMBER IS 2548655802 OR 2546799607
September 18, 2010 at 6:08 pm
I have already spoken with Mr. Jennings and resolved the debit card issue as soon as I spoke with him.When adjusting credit cards at night to apply tips it is easy to hit the wrong button if you are not paying attention this is obviously what happened and certainly not intentional to get an extra 53.80?? Also we have been in business for over 15 years and our system has always been that customers get their own drink.pickles.onions etc… and we have never had a complaint before.The customers were also at our restaurant during the weekend and we are no open again till Thursday so I guess that would explain why they could not get in touch with us? When I did speak with the customer Mr. Jennings he also wanted me to give them full refund for the entire meal even though he said it tasted good and there were no other problems.I apologize for the mix up on the debit card but it has been remedied and I feel we have all we should be expected to do.