Texas Roadhouse Restaurant - Filet Mignon

Texas Roadhouse Of Gatlinburg

The Texas Roashouse Restaurant, located on the Parkway in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, is famous for its steaks and BBQ ribs. It was packed with about 75 people waiting outside for a table. It took about an hour before our beeper activated signaling our table was ready. The waitress took us to our table, took our drink orders and returned quickly and promptly took our dinner orders.

Texas Roadhouse Dinner Rolls

I have been to the Texas Roadhouse before and I remembered the rolls. Our waitress brought them to our table as we were being seated. They were hot, fresh, very good tasting especially with the cinnamon butter that came with the rolls. Clearly, Texas roadhouse knows how to do rolls.

Texas Roadhouse Filet

I went with the advice of our waitress and went with the Filet Mignon with a loaded baked potato and steak fries. (You get two sides) After eating about 25-30 shelled peanuts supplied to our table, (There are two tin buckets on every table, one empty, one full of shelled peanuts) our dinners arrived.

As you can see, the steak looked delicious and the loaded potato and steak fries were generous. The waitress asked me to check my steak to see if it was cooked to order. I ordered it well done, and informed her that they could butterfly the filet if necessary. (Butterfly steak, cutting the filet in half making it easier to cook thoroughly through without burning the outer steak) It was not to my order. It was almost bloody red and I asked her to please return it and butterfly the steak and cook it to well done.

About ten minutes later our waitress returned with the filet looking exactly the same. It was not butterflied. I could see that the steak was not cooked more as the red blood was now oozing out onto the plate all over the steak fries. I sent it back once again asking that it be cooked to well done. Once again, it was returned and I could tell that the chef did not cook my filet further. In fact, it was now cold. So was the potato and fries.

At that point, I refused the steak and asked to speak to the chef. I was denied. The waitress said they were to busy and the chef was very busy and behind in his cooking. That explained everything right there. The chef never attempted to recook my steak and figured that I would accept what was served to me. I did not!

Since everyone was already finished with their dinners, I completely rejected my steak and stated I would not be paying for it. The manager agreed after coming over to my table and inspecting the steak. He apologized several times and offered any other entree for free. I declined and we left.

The Grassy Knoll Diner scores 0 out of 5 shots and DOES NOT recommend Texas Roadhouse restaurant Filet Mignon  for dinner.

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   Gumby said

   May 2, 2010 at 7:44 pm e
   I thought this was going to work out well. The steak did look damn good. Will you ever go back and chance it again?
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     LOTGK said

     May 2, 2010 at 10:56 pm e
     I will return, and in fact have already done so. However, I did not order the Filet again. You will in my later updates my experience at the Texas Roadhouse.
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   FreakSmack said

   May 2, 2010 at 10:56 pm e
   The least they could have done was send you on your way with a couple pails of peanuts and rolls. I’m not going to lie I go to a place with good rolls for the rolls, I only order a meal because they frown upon you sitting there and only eating the rolls.
   I like the choice of the double potatoes, I like to rock the double mashed at Chili’s.
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     LOTGK said

     May 2, 2010 at 11:25 pm e
     Double potato, I’m Irish, I had no choice. 
     And yea, they did attempt to satisfy me with a free any thing dinner, but everyone was already finished, and with it being busy, it would have been another half hour, and nobody wanted that.
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   Elecpencil said

   May 2, 2010 at 11:31 pm e
   Good for you for refusing the steak. I also hate bloody steak and want it well done. I never order prime rib as it is always bloody. I once saw a woman send the bloodiest steak I have ever seen back at Brown Derby. She told the waiter,”I said, rare not well done.” I think it was Mrs. Dracula.
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     LOTGK said

     May 2, 2010 at 11:47 pm e
     She would have loved the Texas Roadhouse steak. 
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   Ska2682 said

   May 2, 2010 at 11:42 pm e
   The only way to eat a steak is Medium-Rare. I little blood is good for the soul. “Meat tastes like murder, and murder is delicious!”-Denis Leary
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     LOTGK said

     May 2, 2010 at 11:55 pm e
     I would have accepted medium rare. However, this steak was very rare, blood was oozing out after I cut into it. It was not how I ordered it.
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   Delong said

   May 3, 2010 at 8:17 am e
   Your crazy. I’ve been eating at Gia’s pizza for years and its always been good service and good food.
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     LOTGK said

     May 3, 2010 at 10:12 am e
     Methinks you posted in the wrong Blue Plate Special category.
     But, Gia’s in Boardman, Ohio has not been open for years, I believe it has been open just under one year, so if there are more of these restaurants, God help us all.
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   Max Jackl said

   May 3, 2010 at 1:29 pm e
   I’ve been to the Roadhouse. They do have great rolls. My dinner was good, I got the ribs, they were fantastic. I’d rate them a good.
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     LOTGK said

     May 4, 2010 at 11:57 pm e
     The ribs are coming up max. I returned to the Roadhouse for other times I had good results. The filet was the only unworthy dinner I had there.
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   Ahrcanum said

   May 3, 2010 at 6:26 pm e
   Hope u r lurking way far from the Tennessee floods! Have a good show, and a better meal and the next stop. Damn- it looked so good too. How was the salad?
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     LOTGK said

     May 4, 2010 at 11:58 pm e
     Yes, far from the floods. And the salad, it was good, I like the eggs and celery they add. I only use pepper, no dressing.
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   The River Yeti said

   May 5, 2010 at 7:14 pm e
   At our Texas Roadhouse (in FL) you throw the peanut shells on the floor….Booya.
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     LOTGK said

     May 5, 2010 at 9:56 pm e
     Yes, the one in Gatlinburg used to be that way. I guess it wasn’t sanitary and they give you an empty bucket now.
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   Moominboy said

   May 13, 2010 at 2:22 pm e
   Oh I would have grabbed it. I love my steaks rare, in fact I wouldn’t mind if it was still moving ;P The whole plate looks mouth-watering. But it’s bad style to insult the customers intelligence (or at least their perception).
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     LOTGK said

     May 16, 2010 at 1:32 am e
     Yes, you would have loved this steak then.
     The sad part is, its a great restaurant, I have eaten there plenty. I just won’t recommend the steak.
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    Tushar Bhatti said

    August 31, 2012 at 7:56 am e
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      LOTGK said

      September 10, 2012 at 8:19 am e
      I am using WordPress.com
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