Smith & Western

Great food, great atmosphere really fun place to eat. Have been to another branch the standard has been high on both occasions. Good service not rushed.

Imagine an American walking into an «American» themed restaurant in Horsham. That was my experience. The atmosphere is awesome, but obviously the America theme is really a Texas theme. Country music playing? Check. Servers dressed in cowboy hats and clothes? Yep! The amount of cowboy stereotypes were endless. And it’s quite amusing. Especially for an American.
We ordered some cocktails. I love a good Margarita. Unfortunately, these were not good. Way too sweet. So my partner and I switched to beer. They have a selection of American beers, if you like that sort of thing. They don’t serve them by the pint though. They have bottles or ½ or ²⁄₃ of a pint. Or 2 pints. Or 4 pints. So of course, 2 pints of beer each it is!
We shared the nacho platter to start. Be warned: the nachos are massive. There were four of us, and it was a bit tough. But we got through. They’re not amazing. Pretty standard in fact. Apparently they make their own tortilla chips. So kudos for that, but the toppings didn’t wow me.
My partner and I then split the Extravaganza feast for two. It came with ribs, wings (we opted to get the TNT Explosive wings because hot wings are amazing), fried mushrooms, onion rings, corn, coleslaw, beans and curly fries. Again, everything was fine. The best for me was the onion rings. The curly fries are fine, nothing better than any other I’ve had. The wings were definitely not Explosive, unfortunately. The ribs were fine, but were lacking something.
At this point we were stuffed, so no dessert for us. Although we did see about six massive sundaes come out as people were there celebrating their birthdays. They looked good, but we were way too full.
Honestly, I wasn’t expecting anything here to wow me, and it didn’t. The service is really good though as the server came back and asked us how we were on several occasions. Weirdly like being back in the states. Maybe that was the point.

Had a fantastic meal here the staff were chilled out and we had a really nice time!

This is a really fun place to eat, especially if you have kids with you as the décor is really hammed up with cowboys, indians and giant cow horns everywhere.
I love Tex-​Mex food but have been to a few dodgy ones in the past (mainly in Brighton) but the guys here really have hit the nail on the head in regards to food and service. The Fajitas are excellent; huge portions and nothing over cooked and the steaks are also really impressive (try the T-​bone).
They serve pitchers of draft beer and also they do a bucket of 8 bottled beers on ice which is good fun to order. Yeeehaaaa!!!