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Re: Where's the best Chicken Fried steak?
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08/07/12 03:55 AM
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Chicken Fried Steak should be measured by three things imo.
1. Tenderness. Can you just use a fork? Hows the gristle content? 2. Breading. How's the seasoning of the breading? Does it stick to the meat? 3. Gravy. Subjective but should have just the right amount of grease, pepper and thickness.
Mary's meets all of these imo.
Babe's is OK but misses on some of these items.
Monument cafe in Georgetown isn't bad.
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Re: Where's the best Chicken Fried steak?
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08/07/12 03:37 PM
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I like Mary's, however I tend to like Flossy's across the street maybe a bit more. Might just be that it was the original CFS destination in Strawn. I can still remember Mary's as "that new place".
Before my uncle had his quadruple bypass, he could tell which of the two had the best grease on a given week. Yes, ironic.
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Re: Where's the best Chicken Fried steak?
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08/07/12 09:07 PM
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Last time I went through Strawn Flossie's was closed. It's a parking lot for Mary's now.
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Re: Where's the best Chicken Fried steak?
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I saw them remodling Flossies a few weeks ago and was hoping they were going to turn it into a burger joint or a cafe that makes good chicken fried steak , but when I asked in the Shell station what they were going to put in there I was told a Nail Salon. So now you stop and get you a Mary's CFS and walk across the street and get your nails done.
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Re: Where's the best Chicken Fried steak?
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I thought the CFS at Zavala's in Mason, Texas was pretty good.
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Re: Where's the best Chicken Fried steak?
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Flossie is dead and gone. Know her son. Mary's is just OK. It was a lot better back in the day when it used to be the Polka Dot. This was a few decades ago for any who might remember.
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Re: Where's the best Chicken Fried steak?
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08/11/12 10:18 AM
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Still like Mary's, but it does depend on the cook of the day.
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Re: Where's the best Chicken Fried steak?
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08/13/12 08:07 PM
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The Old Spanish Trail in Bandera has a good one. Mary's is on up there in my book can't go wrong with either.
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Re: Where's the best Chicken Fried steak?
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08/27/12 03:28 PM
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Boo Rays was pretty good!
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Re: Where's the best Chicken Fried steak?
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08/28/12 12:46 AM
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The shed in Ben wheeler use to have the best.....haven't been there in some time
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Re: Where's the best Chicken Fried steak?
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08/31/12 05:55 PM
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Matts there in Allen..Mescan food joint..but a killer CF Steak..
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Re: Where's the best Chicken Fried steak?
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Here we go with Mary's in Strawn again. The most over rated, overpriced, sorryest excuse for chicken fried steak in the state. Don't waste your money or gas going to this place. I agree! I was raised in Gordon 8 miles.from strawn and I have always thought Marys was overrated. New York Hill is waaaay waaay better.
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Re: Where's the best Chicken Fried steak?
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Flossie is dead and gone. Know her son. Mary's is just OK. It was a lot better back in the day when it used to be the Polka Dot. This was a few decades ago for any who might remember. Flossie was my great aunt. They had awesome food when it was open. Way better than Marys
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Re: Where's the best Chicken Fried steak?
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I may get some hate on this one, but the Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth has a really good chicken fried steak believe it or not. I did not want to like it, but it came with jalopeno cream gravy. I had to get it. The steak had just enough breading.
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Re: Where's the best Chicken Fried steak?
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Babes in Sanger. Mary's in Strawn. Mel's in Tomball.
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Re: Where's the best Chicken Fried steak?
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MARY'S in Strawn. Closest I've ever had that compares to my mom's.
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Re: Where's the best Chicken Fried steak?
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Freds was good, but the last time there it was 30% breading,70% meat.... not like the good ole days! I thought the CFS at Zavala's in Mason, Texas was pretty good.
I'd ask him if he's pregnant. He missed a s__tload of periods. I'll take "things that look like a uterus" for $200 Alex.
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Re: Where's the best Chicken Fried steak?
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09/26/12 01:43 AM
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The Rocket Cafe in Rocket, Texas. Amazingly gooooood!
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Re: Where's the best Chicken Fried steak?
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Don't judge me, but i'm kinda partial to the chicken fried sirloin at Texas Roadhouse. I know it's a chain restaraunt, but the consistancy is always the same, and the flavor is always the same.
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Re: Where's the best Chicken Fried steak?
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Rocket cafe Marys is ok ar best. Love the calf fries Freds is ok. Frog legs are better Jake and Dorothy's in stephenville
As a side note for the graford cafe boys. They just opened a second location at the lake.
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Re: Where's the best Chicken Fried steak?
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09/27/12 04:35 PM
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Once upon a time, Ma Goodson's in Tomball had just about the best CFS I ever had. These days I've had really good ones at the Sale Barn Cafe in Groesbeck. It's actually in the sale barn. Also good ones at the McCarver's Kosse Cafe in Kosse. It's in one end of the truck stop on Highway 7.
It's just hard to say which one of all those mentioned by ya'll is absolutely the BEST. A lot of what you remember as great might be influenced by how much beer you had or what pretty girl you were with at the time.
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Re: Where's the best Chicken Fried steak?
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09/29/12 02:17 PM
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If you ever make it down towards Dhanis, there is a place called Bill and Rosa's that makes a pretty dang good CFS. As far as i can remember, it is the only steak that has been too big for me to finish in one sitting, and i have tried 3 different times, and comes either smothered in gravy or oddly with chedder cheese and bacon bits. it was one of my favorite CFS, along with Shorty's in Falls City, but all of those are around the SA area.
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Re: Where's the best Chicken Fried steak?
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10/01/12 02:08 AM
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I'm in this car. Only been to Maria once after hearing raves about it and the only list I would put it on was one of the worst experiences at a restraunt and probably the worst CFS I have ever had anywhere. We got up and left. When we got home and the dog wouldn't even eat it. And that from an animal that licks his own a$$.
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