Terms of use

The plain-language terms for the Texas Eats app and this website. Last updated 2026-10-21.

What the app is

Texas Eats is a free guide to restaurants in Texas. It is provided as is, for personal use, without charge and without warranties of any kind.

Check before you go

Restaurants open, close, change their hours and change their menus, and many barbecue joints sell out early. Dishes and founding years are what each place or a named source said when we checked in fall 2026. We work to keep the lists right, but we can't promise that any listing is current or complete. Call the restaurant before you make the trip.

Inspection scores and public records

The app and this site show the inspection scores Austin Public Health, the City of El Paso and the City of Arlington publish, each with the city's own band or grade and its date. Texas has no statewide grade, and we compute none. An inspection is a snapshot of one day. Alcohol licenses come from the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission's license list, and bar sales are the receipts Mixed Beverage permit holders report to the Texas Comptroller. For official records, use each agency's own site (TABC's public inquiry).

Other people's content

Ratings, reviews, hours and photos in each place card come from Apple Maps and are Apple's and its providers', under Apple's terms. Restaurant names and trademarks belong to their owners. MICHELIN and the MICHELIN Guide are trademarks of Michelin; James Beard Foundation and James Beard Award are trademarks of the James Beard Foundation. Texas Eats is not affiliated with any restaurant, chain, award body or government agency.

Data sources and licenses

  • Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, TABC License Information, and the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, Mixed Beverage Gross Receipts (both on data.texas.gov), modified for use here.
  • Austin Public Health, Food Establishment Inspection Scores (data.austintexas.gov, public domain); the City of El Paso's Food Establishment Scores; the City of Arlington's Food Establishments open data.
  • Overture Maps Foundation places data, under the Community Data License Agreement, Permissive 2.0, including data from Meta, Microsoft, DAC, BrightQuery, AllThePlaces (CC0 1.0) and Foursquare (Apache 2.0).
  • Overture Maps Foundation divisions, used for the state and county outlines on the map, under the Open Database License: © OpenStreetMap contributors, Overture Maps Foundation.
  • Overture Maps Foundation addresses data, compiled from open address sources under permissive licenses (see docs.overturemaps.org/attribution), used to place records on the map.
  • U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder (public domain), used for addresses Overture's address points don't cover.
  • The MICHELIN Guide Texas selection and the James Beard Foundation's awards, finalists and America's Classics: honors reported as facts.
  • Barbecue joints, Tex-Mex, taquerías, kolaches, chicken-fried steak and founding years: our own research, with a source recorded for every place.

Corrections

If a listing is wrong, or you own a restaurant and want something fixed, email nick@eatsranked.com. We fix mistakes in the next update.

Liability

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for any loss arising from use of the app or site, including a wasted drive to a closed restaurant.

Changes

We may update these terms; the current version and its date are always on this page. See also the privacy policy.