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Re: Where's the best Chicken Fried steak? [Re: bigbroke12] #3449854 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.


Re: Where's the best Chicken Fried steak? [Re: jaymz] #3450783 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? [Re: KennyLee] #3451732 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.



Re: Where's the best Chicken Fried steak? [Re: 12gaugegator] #3452005 08/07/12 10:23 PM
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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 stir, 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. clap



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Re: Where's the best Chicken Fried steak? [Re: 12gaugegator] #3460605 08/10/12 05:12 AM
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I thought the CFS at Zavala's in Mason, Texas was pretty good.


Re: Where's the best Chicken Fried steak? [Re: RedHoss] #3462804 08/10/12 11:55 PM
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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.


Re: Where's the best Chicken Fried steak? [Re: scattergun] #3463811 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? [Re: Halfadozen] #3471042 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.


Re: Where's the best Chicken Fried steak? [Re: 12gaugegator] #3516195 08/27/12 03:28 PM
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Boo Rays was pretty good!

Re: Where's the best Chicken Fried steak? [Re: bucsfan69] #3518080 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

Re: Where's the best Chicken Fried steak? [Re: 12gaugegator] #3530860 08/31/12 05:55 PM
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Matts there in Allen..Mescan food joint..but a killer CF Steak..

Re: Where's the best Chicken Fried steak? [Re: twinbubba] #3566920 09/13/12 12:35 PM
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Originally Posted By: twinbubba
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.

Re: Where's the best Chicken Fried steak? [Re: scattergun] #3566922 09/13/12 12:37 PM
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Originally Posted By: scattergun
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

Re: Where's the best Chicken Fried steak? [Re: Maglite] #3568388 09/13/12 08:03 PM
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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.

Re: Where's the best Chicken Fried steak? [Re: 12gaugegator] #3590918 09/21/12 03:33 AM
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Babes in Sanger. Mary's in Strawn. Mel's in Tomball.

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MARY'S in Strawn. Closest I've ever had that compares to my mom's.

Re: Where's the best Chicken Fried steak? [Re: RedHoss] #3604806 09/26/12 01:08 AM
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Freds was good, but the last time there it was 30% breading,70% meat.... not like the good ole days!
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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? [Re: hoof n wings] #3604956 09/26/12 01:34 AM
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Gandy's in Olney,

Re: Where's the best Chicken Fried steak? [Re: sig226fan (Rguns.com)] #3605000 09/26/12 01:43 AM
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The Rocket Cafe in Rocket, Texas. Amazingly gooooood!

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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.

Re: Where's the best Chicken Fried steak? [Re: lharrell79] #3608934 09/27/12 02:40 AM
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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.

Re: Where's the best Chicken Fried steak? [Re: smithwr] #3610482 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? [Re: 603Country] #3615838 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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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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