Here’s how to win prizes for eating steaks across Dallas and Fort Worth
The price of beef is higher than ever — more than $6 a pound, and that’s just for ground chuck.
But that isn’t separating Texans from their steaks.
“This is still Cowtown after all, so Fort Worth folks will always enjoy our beef,” chef and 25-year restaurateur Jon Bonnell wrote in a message.
His Bonnell’s is one of 20 local steakhouses and restaurants listed on the “Dallas-Fort Worth Steak Trail,” a promotion that offers token prizes with a chance at an Austin weekend at the Texas Beef Council smoke school.
Beef Loving Texans issues “passports” to tour the North Texas steakhouses or other restaurants. There’s also an “Ultimate Beef Trail” and a “Central Texas BBQ Trail.”
Through Dec. 31, sign up at beeflovingtexans.com/beeftrail, start dining and check in via smartphone GPS location at each restaurant for 100 points.
When you’ve hit 20 restaurants, you qualify for a grand prize drawing and the possible Austin trip.
OK, so it’s not exactly like winning Powerball. You have to visit a lot of steakhouses, and you might only get a T-shirt that says “Nice to Meat Y’all.”
But Fort Worth needs no premise to eat beef.
“There will always be a market for beef around here!” Bonnell said.
The current beef prices sting. The steaks at Bonnell’s, 4259 Bryant Irvin Road, are in the $50-$70 range.
At American Revelry, a Burleson restaurant with a varied menu, flatiron steak platters are about $25-$55. There’s also a new 2-pound porterhouse.
Beef sales are very strong, chef Denise Shavandy wrote in an email. That’s even though Revelry, 279 W. Hidden Creek Parkway, isn’t solely a steakhouse.
“Texans love their beef, and tourists definitely think “it’s what’s for dinner” in Texas — [it’s] almost obligatory to have steak!”
Revelry has seen a market for smaller steaks to serve those watching their portions, she wrote, but also offers the big steak to splurge.
A new regional Texas menu lists which ranch each steak comes from, she wrote, including the 2-pound porterhouse from Wagyu-Excelente in Fort Davis, which also supplies Al Biernat’s in Dallas.
At Mac’s Bar & Grill in Arlington, also on the “Steak Trail,” a sirloin special is about $30, and other steaks are $35-$45.
Beef sales are good, owner Rena Frost said, but prices for beef products have gone up 15% since August.
Mac’s, 6077 Interstate 20 West, and cousin Mac’s on Main, 909 S. Main St. in Grapevine, are descendants of a downtown Midland steakhouse known for its midprice menu and much-praised chicken-fried steak.
The “Steak Trail” site promotes Mac’s prime rib dinners and New York strip.
Other Fort Worth-area restaurants on the “trail” include:
- B&B Butchers & Restaurant, Fort Worth.
- Clay Pigeon Food & Drink, Fort Worth.
- Cut & Bourbon, Arlington.
- Dino’s Steak & Claw House, Grapevine.
- Grace, Fort Worth.
- The Keg Steakhouse + Bar, Arlington.
- Kirby’s Steakhouse, Southlake.
- Lonesome Dove Western Bistro, Fort Worth.
- Lucile’s, Fort Worth.
- Mercury Chophouse, Arlington.
- Pacific Table, Fort Worth.
- Saint-Emilion Restaurant, Fort Worth.
- Silver Fox Steakhouse, Fort Worth.
- Waters Restaurant, Fort Worth.
- Wicked Butcher, Fort Worth.
This story was originally published September 10, 2025 at 4:46 AM.
