Texas Longhorn

There are a couple of things to remember about Texas:
1) It’s always dead
2) The service is quick
3) Steak & chicken nachos are to DIE for, wings are large and delicious. Love their wing deals on Monday/​Wednesday
The chips they give you to start aren’t amazingly flavorful, but they’re free so I can’t really complain. I wish the place was more lively but other than that, I love it.

Very unimpressive as far as a Tex-​Mex joint. The décor is fun and thematic but the food was pretty uninspiring. I order a burrito with rice, refried beans and nachos with guac. Everything gave me the impression that it was frozen at one point, and was either bland or salty. Better off going to Lone Star.

I have been coming to the Texas Longhorn since I was a kid and for the 28 years it has been there, this place has never let me or any of my friends and family down… I just noticed one of the reviews from last week about the five ladies that weren’t happy… Myself and three of my good friends were there having dinner that night and witnessed the entire event. everyone including the owner bent over backwards to try to make this group happy… unfortunately people like that are just never satisfied… I suspect groups like that troll restaurants for freebies and attention for fun… it’s a shame that anyone would ever post less than a 5 star review about this Mississauga landmark that has stood the test of time… The food is always fresh, homemade and consistent… The staff and the service is always impeccable and the atmosphere is always very casual and it just feels like home… No pretentiousness here, no gimmicks and no corporate feel… This place is like going to your moms for Sunday barbecue… we will continue to frequent this place and tell everyone how great it is… Hope to see everyone there

A group of 5 of us went here last evening at the recommendation of another friend who could not make it. I checked numerous reviews of this place and had high hopes the food and service would live up to what I read. NOT SO MUCH.
Sticky tables which took us 3 times to get them cleaned off correctly. Poor seating directly beside the bar. I am not a fan of listening to bar patrons swearing and trying egg on a fight.
We ordered our food and waited. One of my friends ordered brisket and here goes the issues after that. After 20 minutes the server returned to our table advising that the brisket was no longer available. Really? It took 20 minutes to figure that out? I know it wasn’t the server but the kitchen not relaying information to the front-​line workers. He ended up ordering something else. At this point the server should have told him that his meal would be free or at the very least discounted. We honestly thought that our meals would come out before his which would have happened in other restaurants I suspect. Instead we continued to wait 50 minutes for everything to be brought to our table. Finally everything came but … the fajitas were cold, chicken wings cold, rib eye steak warmish. It appears that the food was placed under a heat lamp. Gross and unacceptable. The only happy person was the guy brisket-​less who’s order was hot.
After a whole mess of complaining we walked out with gift cards covering the cost of our meals. Needless to say we will never visit this restaurant again but if anyone wants the gift card let me know.

I love this place. There steaks are always great! Even though there carne asada are skirt steaks, it’s perfectly marinaded and cooked on mesquite wood grill for an amazing flavour. The customer service is amazing. Eric is the best. I usually go every month for breakfast.

Haven’t been here for a year. But always order a steak. The steak always is cooked perfectly and reasonably priced!

meh.
booth smelled like puke
enchiladas ok
hotsauce = Melinda’s and Tabasco. meh
surf&turf = 10oz. steak and some shrimp in a bowl.
music got ok after a bit…
I bet it gets better at night

Always my go to place for cheap but flavorful steak. I always order the carne asada because I find it the most tender piece of meat they serve. They got rid of their lunch specials so be prepared to have a heavy lunch since you’ll be ordering off the same menu as dinner. The servers are friendly but sometimes you’ll have to wait several minutes when you first walk in — not sure why but its happened to my boyfriend & I before & it wasn’t even busy. Their free salsa & chips is a hit or miss. Sometimes it tastes fresh sometimes the salsa tastes like soap, like they didn’t rinse the bowl or pot the salsa has been in thoroughly. Iced tea always tastes like the cheap kind from a carton. Always check your steak if you’re not in the habit of, sometimes the steak is a little over cooked.

I hadn’t been to the Longhorn for a long time, after frequenting the restaurant bi-​weekly for years on and off. I decided to give it another try.
I had been going to the Lone Star Café (another restaurant) for fajitas however recently the fajitas had not been good there so I was looking for another restaurant that served Tex Mex that actually tasted freshly cooked and not pre-​seasoned.
After trying the fajitas at the Longhorn I will NEVER be going back to the Lone Star. I have found my fajitas place. The chicken was tender, moist, and had a hint of mesquite flavour. The side rice and beans were also excellently prepared.
As a side note, the Longhorn is cheaper than the Lone Star Café: 7 – 8 dollars less per pound of Fajitas.

I don’t think I’ve been to the Texas Longhorn since the early 1990s. It’s about the only decent tex-​mex place in the whole of the GTA. The notion that it was a rip-​off of Lonestar Café is mistaken. This place existed a couple years before Lonestars started to open in Toronto. The Texas Longhorn had an amazing winning formula back in the early 1990s but the owners refused to franchise it. Lonestar saw an opportunity and turned out a highly inferior product.
I was a bit afraid after so many years the Longhorn had changed but I was happy to discover the Longhorn still remains the best tex-​mex experience in the GTA.
Short story: You come for the fajitas. The beef fajitas. Don’t waste your time with anything else. The beef is amazing. The mesquite wood imparts a great flavor, the center is just pink enough, and the strips of beef are tender and melt in your mouth.
Lots of great fajitas deals through the week. Keep an eye on their web page. Mondays are all you can eat. Tuesdays are 25% off 1 lbs (which will feed about 2 hungry males).
You get chip basket refills and pop refills too.

It was fine. The chicken in the fajitas was very bland, the steak was better but I could probably make better at home.
The highlight of the meal was the soft flour tortillas. They are made in house and very good. But, that was the only good thing about the meal.
I don’t think I would come back…

I absoluely LOVE this place. I have been there 3 times and every time I have gone, I have always ordered the Chili con Queso. It is without a doubt my most favourite appetizer there. It is sooooooooo good seriously. If you ever go there for the first time and don’t know what to order for an appetizer, I highly recommend that dish! Their quesadillas are very good as well. I went there yesterday to meet up with a friend for lunch and I ordered the bacon and cheddar burger. I normally don’t order burgers from restaurants but yesterday I was just in the mood I guess. Burger was very good, but filling lol. I absolutely love texan and mexican food!

After driving by this place a number of times, I decided it looked decent enough to give it a try. When my friend and I walked into the restaurant, there was no hostess at the door and only one person working (this was a Tuesday night at dinner time). Since the bartender wasn’t addressing us, we decided to seat ourselves at a booth. Despite the fact that there were only 2 other people in the place (who were both sitting at the bar), it took about 3 minutes for the bartender to address us. When she finally did approach us, her first words to us were, «just give me a minute.»
While the server did make a bad first impression, she was pleasant enough for the rest of the meal, if not a little clueless (but hey, I wasn’t expecting much from a rundown tex-​mex restaurant in a plaza).
We decided to try the fajitas as well as the beef rib. The fajitas were OK, but lacked flavour and didn’t include enough side toppings (I would have asked for more if our server had been more present). The beef rib was dry and didn’t have much flavour to it either.
All in all, I would not return to this place. Everything was average at best. If you want fajitas, make the trip to Lone Star.

Went for 55c Wings on Wednesday, and they were absolutely terrible. Even wings in the garbage don’t taste a week old.
Other than that, the fajitas, etc are average. Not remarkable, not terrible.

Pretty decent steakhouse. Nothing really jumped off the plate at me, but it was decent for the price. Excellent service. I like the fact they give the option of giving you as large a cut a steak as you’d like. It seems to be more of a sports bar than anything else, the food isn’t the highlight of the place as it’s pretty average.

This place is terrible.
It’s a cheap rip-​off of Lonestar Café, actually it looks like it used to be one of them and just changed the name to go independent.
Last time I drove by it was out of business and rightfully so.
I reccomend Lonestar or Sneaky Dees if you really want some decent Tex-​Mex in T.O.

This place had incredible nachos… it’s quality over quantity. I also had the chimichanga and it was incredible! I really enjoy this place.