Tony’s Barbeque and Steakhouse

Brisket was really good but mac n cheese was super disappointing. They also have great bread!

The BBQ here was so delicious. We got the #1 Family Meal with 2 lbs. of meat and 3 sides and it fed myself, my husband, and our three children. Since this was our first time here, Marvin the manager, let us try a sample of sausage and brisket. So we chose the brisket and smoked turkey as our meats, and we got the mustard potato salad, fried okra, and ranch potatoes as our sides. And my husband also got a small creamed corn. Everything was perfect! Excellent customer service! They made sure we were taken care of, and we enjoyed everything. Oh! And you gotta love the flavored sodas! Very enjoyable experience here. :)

There are three things I judge a barbecue place on:
1. Brisket. Not too lean, not to fatty. How is the Smokey taste of it? Smoke ring look good?
2. Sausage. Is it tough? How does it taste? Does it slice well? Good in a sandwich?
3. Consistency. It requires that I go there multiple times to ensure that it wasn’t a lucky night, bad or good.
Tony’s hits all three, with excellent sides and other meats as well. The most important of the three is consistency, and Tony’s is always really good. I can’t even count how many times I’ve eaten there and we’ll continue to go!

Always phenomenal! I love this place! The food is great and so are the staff. The rib eye is delicious and great bbq sauce!

Went there and got some real bad brisket. They noticed our expressions and the giant pile of wadded-​up napkins containing spit out food and immediately replaced our plates without being asked. (The replacement brisket was so much better). Five stars for customer service, three for uneven food quality.

Yeah, another place for breakfast. Tried the breakfast burrito with egg, potato, sausage, and cheese. The sausage is bbq sausage and it is great. The taco was chorizo and egg and was also very good. Both were good size and two tacos or 1 burrito will fill up a grown man.

I go on tuesdays, like most tuesdays. They have a great ribeye sandwich and delish ranch potatoes. I have also had the sliced and chopped brisket sandwiches. Always super quick and good value. Good sweet tea as well. The staff is also very nice. Other people I eat with liked the baked potato and the chicken dinner dish.

Would not honor the 25 for 3 deal. They tried to say it meant something else. I would not eat at this establishment for not honoring something they signed up for. I believe it is bad business to manipulate the system to the business advantage because they didn’t read what they was buying into.

It was just OK. A bit pricey for the serving size. I ordered the ribs with dirty rice and macaroni and cheese. It wasn’t horrible but it did not fill my barbecue craving. Staff was nice.

Awesome BBQ!!! I frequent this place because the food is good, the staff is friendly and the prices are good. Wide range of food items and definitely worth checking out.

Very overpriced @ 30 $ for two dinners. The meat might have been good, but who knows? It was swimming in a not very good sauce. The sides were poor quality and bread, what bread? None in sight. Waste your money if you want, I’ll get my barbeque elsewhere.

The food was good — once we actually got what we ordered. We had a Christmas party at the office and ordered several trays of food plus dessert from Tony’s. The staff weren’t expecting us when we arrived to pick up our order and then tried to give us incorrect items that we did not order. Our dessert was not available at all and we had to order an emergency cobbler from another restaurant. We probably would not use them for catering again.

I’m not a fan. Food looked awesome but taste didn’t match, well at least my plate. I ordered the half chicken plate. The chicken was dry as sand! It was late so I’m attributing it to that. But the flavor was just not there (Randy’s on Hey 3 is much better). The potato salad was pretty darn good. You have the choice between mustart or mayo. The mustartd packed a punch while the mayo was bland so I asked them to mix it and… perfection. The beans were straight from a can, they did not attempt to «doctor» them up, no adding a little brown sugar or some pork… nothing.
My husband ordered the ribeye sandwich. This sandwich was the sandwich to end all… cue the music… the steak just melted in you mouth and was so flavorful. This sandwich was made with love, live & affection. The bread was so soft and complimented every bite. I was so caught up in the music in my head until I forgot that it was not mine. The fries that came along with the sandwich were nothing to write home about. Hubs also ordered the ribs and raved about them. I’m just not a rib person.
I will definitely go back for that ribeye sandwich and special mix of potato salad and may update my review. The chicken just left a bad taste in my mouth.
Oh almost forgot the most important part! The bbq sauce! Straight from a plastic bottle. Please please learn if you are using pre-​packaged stuff, make it your own!

I’ve enjoyed Tony’s since they opened here. I know there is better barbecue around if you want to drive much further away, but I enjoy Tony’s just fine in our neighborhood. I find their meats to be a good smokey flavor and quality, and I like their sauce. Their rolls and jalapeño bread are great, except you sometimes have to ask for them explicitly and ask for the butter. The Mexican corn is good, but pretty spicy. The coconut cream pie seemed to be Mrs. Smiths, so pass on that.

Not anyhing like it used to be. I had to wait and wait on a sliced beef sandwich and side of frys. Got a hamburger out before I got my food and when it did come out it was cold and seemed like it had been sitting out. I had to go up and ask for my food to even get it. I will NEVER COME BACK HERE!

You order at the counter and take your food to the table on a cafeteria tray.
We used to eat at Tony’s when it was in Seabrook and more often now that it’s nearer by. Chris K and I have pretty much the same view. The pork ribs are, as he says, falling of the bone tender, and delicious. If it’s your first visit I recommend you try them. We also like the BBQ potato. I’m rating the BBQ, not the service, Coke, muffins or hamburgers. I consider it the best BBQ in Clear Lake. It’s true the potato salad isn’t the best, but I like the corn casserole, and the baked beans are, well, baked beans. But, what does any of this have to do with BBQ?
My wife gets a steak occasionally, but I often found the steaks chewy. I do get the chicken fried steak occasionally and it’s spotty — sometimes chewy, sometimes okay. But, who gets and complains about seafood or crayfish at a BBQ restaurant? I don’t eat either but there are a plethora of seafood restaurants in the area.
Update: They now have a couple of tables for two out front for those who like to eat in sauna Houston.
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We’ve Eaten Out Every Meal for 25 years

We came for dinner and the ribeye steak was very well seasoned and the baked potato was good to the last bite. I didn’t get my homemade roll but I would definitely come back. It wasnt bust and the staff was helpful.

We picked up Tony’s to cater a lunch at our office at a recommendation of another employee. It was OK. The Brisket to me was a bit bland. No flavor. The Sausage was really just greasy. I mean yes sausage is mostly fat but this sausage looked and tasted like it had been dipped in oil before serving. Potato salad both mustard and mayo were just the garden variety Food service pre made stuff like you buy in a tub at Kroger. That runny kind with the perfectly cubed potatoes that are slightly undercooked so they do not mush?
My biggest gripe? We ordered 10 lbs of meat consisting of 3lbs sausage. 3.5lbs brisket and 3.5lbs turkey. The brisket and turkey came in one container and looked well. SMALL. We weighed it on our postal scale and it came up 5lbs on the dot. It should of been 7 which is what we ordered and paid for. I called and asked to speak to the owner who insisted it did weight 7lbs and that he weighed it himself. He then said he was on his way to our office. I did not get to see him when he got there. He did bring the rest of our meat but he kept telling the receptionist that it did weight 7lbs not 5. Basically calling us liars. He did not bother to weight it himself or see the pic of the scale with the meat on it that I had taken with my phone.
The meat was average. The sides were straight out of a container and the insult to our intelligence was just icing on the cake. I am not interested in eating there anymore.

This is a solid place for BBQ. I’ve only been for lunch, but the meats are well above par, sides are average to above average, and the atmosphere is typical for a Texas joint. Prices are very competitive.
Been back a few times, and I’m not sure the quality is holding over time. Meats and sides are average to slightly above average, but not 4-​star worthy. Still not a bad option, just no longer a favorite.

I was really underwhelmed with my lunch here. I was not expecting to be blown away by the best BBQ this side of the Mississippi River. I was expecting something better than Pappas BBQ (which if you are a long-​time reader, first time caller to my reviews) you should know that I have a very low opinion of Pappas. I think Pappas and Tony are neck-​in-​neck in competition for purveyors of low quality and pricier than it should be BBQ wares.
The clerk seemed somewhat confused, maybe a little hungover or stoned. He seemed to have trouble following a simple order of meat, a side, and waters. I know that is super-​complex, like the walking AND chewing gum at the SAME TIME feat that only brilliant mathematicians can manage to accomplish. We ended up with the right order by some miracle. Oh, the miracle would be that there was only one other couple in the restaurant and they were already eating. Had there been 2+ orders in the kitchen it probably all would have come mangled and mashed in a pig trough with a straw, a silly grin on the clerk’s face, and instructions to «Grub down» whatever that term actually means down here in Texas.
The ticket ended up being more expensive than competitors. Just to thrown down a name of my favorite: Tony’s is more expensive and lower quality than Red River in League City. It is much more expensive than Thelma’s for an in the loop comparison.
The BBQ sauce here is not spicy. It is not sweet. It is like some sci-​fi BBQ based goo. Still not sure what it was. I know that this is the first BBQ place in the world I have been to where I had sauce in my serving cup left over. I tried ketchup. That is how bad that mess was.
This place had a pretty decent reputation among people I used to respect for their food opinions. I think Tony should stick to tex-​mex at his next door establishment, because the BBQ was basically BBewwwwww.