Texas Eats: BBQ, Tex-Mex & taquerías for iPhone and iPad
Texas restaurants, brisket to breakfast tacos
Looking for brisket on butcher paper, a breakfast taco on a flour tortilla, a kolache on the drive down I-35 or a plate of cheese enchiladas? Texas Eats starts with lists we checked place by place, adds the MICHELIN Guide and James Beard honorees, the state's alcohol licenses and the inspection scores three cities publish, and maps 78,906 restaurants, cafés, bars and bakeries in 1,236 Texas towns.
- 203hand-checked places
- 166MICHELIN & James Beard
- 5,949with a city inspection score
- 78,906restaurants
Built around how Texas eats
Star ratings won't tell you which joint sells out of brisket by noon, or where the trompo turns. Texas Eats is organized the way people here eat: barbecue, Tex-Mex, taquerías, kolaches and chicken-fried steak, each place checked in fall 2026 against a 2025–26 source. Where a city publishes inspection scores, you see the latest one with the city's own band, never a grade from us, and Apple Maps' live card supplies ratings, hours and photos.
How it works
Start with a craving.
Barbecue Joints, Tex-Mex, Taquerías, Kolaches, Chicken-Fried Steak, MICHELIN & James Beard, Oldest Places, Brewpubs, Bar Sales or Inspection Scores. Or type a name, a town, a street or a dish to search the 78,906 we list.
Find the closest one.
Put the nearest first, narrow it to one town or one kind of food, or pan the map from El Paso to Beaumont.
Head out.
Check today's hours and photos on Apple Maps' card, call ahead, get directions, or save the place for the next road trip.
Inside the app
A guide for each Texas craving.
Barbecue joints nearest you.
Each place, hand-checked notes and all.
The map, by guide.
MICHELIN Guide and James Beard honorees.
Texas food guides
Each of the app's lists has its own page here, free to read.
Barbecue joints
74 hand-checked places, brisket to sausage.
55Taquerías
55 hand-checked places, trompo to breakfast tacos.
30Tex-Mex
30 hand-checked places, enchiladas to fajitas.
22Kolaches
22 hand-checked places for kolaches and klobasniky.
19Chicken-fried steak
19 hand-checked places with cream gravy.
9Texas's oldest restaurants
9 places open at the same address since 1960 or earlier.
166MICHELIN & James Beard
166 honored Texas restaurants.
Restaurant inspections, explained
How Austin, El Paso and Arlington score restaurants, and the latest scores for 5,949 places.
Barbecue, tacos and more by city
From El Paso to Galveston, the towns with enough hand-checked or honored places for a page of their own. The cities and towns index sums up what's on each.
Free, with no catch
The app costs nothing, shows no ads and sells nothing inside, and there's no account to make. The lists ship inside the app, so they open right away and keep working when the signal drops out on a farm road.
What stays on your phone
Texas Eats collects nothing about you: no sign-in, no analytics, no ads. Location, if you turn it on, only puts the nearest places first, and your saved places are kept on the phone or iPad. The website has no cookies and no trackers. The privacy policy has the details.
Questions
Is Texas Eats free?
Completely: no price, no ads, no in-app purchases and no account to create. It's an iPhone and iPad app on its way to the App Store, with no Android version yet; until it's out, the web search here works in any browser.
Where do the lists come from?
Two kinds of source. The barbecue, Tex-Mex, taquería, kolache, chicken-fried steak and oldest-places lists are our own research from fall 2026, with a 2025 or 2026 source behind each place: its website or menu, a dated local news story or an official tourism listing. The wider directory of 78,906 restaurants starts from Overture Maps' open place data, keeps the kinds of listing that proved reliable against Austin's, El Paso's and Arlington's inspection lists, and adds restaurants and bars from TABC's license list and those cities' inspection lists.
Where's good barbecue in Texas?
Our barbecue list has 74 hand-checked joints in 38 towns. In the web search, the Barbecue list puts the nearest first once you share your location. Many joints open only a few days a week and close when the brisket runs out, so check before you drive.
How do I check a Texas restaurant's inspection?
Texas has no statewide grade. Austin, El Paso and Arlington publish their inspection scores, and for places there the app and this site show the latest score out of 100 with the city's own band (Austin's Green, Yellow or Red; El Paso's passing line of 70; Arlington's letter grade). Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Fort Worth don't publish scores in bulk; their search pages are the place to look.
What are the bar sales numbers?
Every Texas business with a Mixed Beverage permit reports its liquor, wine, beer and cover-charge receipts to the Texas Comptroller each month, and the state publishes them. We add up the latest twelve months for each place. They're reported figures, not estimates, and places with only a beer-and-wine license don't report.
Does it show ratings and reviews?
Not from us. Tapping a place opens Apple Maps' own card inside the app, with Apple's current ratings, hours, photos and directions. None of our lists is sorted by anyone's rating.
Does it need my location?
No. Location only matters for putting the nearest places first. If you share it, it stays on your iPhone or iPad and never reaches us, and the app works fine without it. On this website, Near me reads your location inside your browser and nowhere else.
A place has closed, or something's wrong. How do I tell you?
Write to nick@eatsranked.com with the place's name, its town and what changed. Corrections ship with the next data update.
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