These were photos from opening night. I suspect they’ve done quite a bit of tweaking since then.

Falling apart or not, I thought the flavor was excellent, and I’ve had enough Lockhart ‘Q to know it was damnned good.

I actually think the prices sound fair. Yeah, it’s a lot more expensive than Texas, but so what. Lockhart is some podunk town where land, employees, and beef is cheap. $17/lb for smoked brisket seems reasonable. Prime rib at $30/lb? No problem. As long as they’re buying quality product and not just getting whatever Sysco or whoever is selling cheap.

Let me run through the whole experience. Your given a meal ticket that they tell you to hold on to but the don’t tell you that if you loose it the fee is 50.00 that is in micro type buried on the back of the ticket. The tickets also have no prices they are on a board above where you ask for what you want.

You have to find and claim a seat for your self, then wait in different lines for Meat, Side dishes, and drinks although the do have cocktail waitress ’s if you want to order from them.

Its just too much damn work for the prices your paying for dinner. The meat is fine the sides were not good. The Mac and Cheese was made with Penne maybe the make it big in texas and dry too. They also didn’t serve greens or pulled pork. I guess they dont’ have that in texas.

We had to explain 4 times to the cashier that the small markings on the used card were our notations of what we wanted to order and even though they were outside the area designated for the servers and we had not indeed ordered a duplicate amount on a third ticket. Please don’t write on your meal ticket.

The final insult is that when your walking out the door there is a security person who asks you if you’ve turned in your “Meal Card” The last time I used a meal card was college. I don’t expect to pay this much money to be treated a criminal. Had She paid attention she could have observed us paying for the meal and not had to question our integrity.

The problem is the prices! $7.50 for a “medium side” of mac n cheese amounts to one soup bowl full. That’s criminal prices. $3.50 for one of those tiny 2 piece corn breads (which were good). The meat wasn’t too bad–but still really expensive.

Daisy May is a better deal, IMO, and the sides are MILES better. The meat might be better here, though.

Oh, and the servers at Hill Country were the most clueless bunch I’ve ever seen. It took me 10 minutes to get 6 ribs, one slice of steak and a lb of brisket. They were like the Stooges. I assume they’ll get better, but DAMN…

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