Truluck's is Damn Good ...

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Barton Hills

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Went there for the 1st time last night. I've been to most places in Austin (Sullivan's/Eddie V's/Roy's/Ruth Chris/Jack in the Box), but I came away most impressed with Truluck's.

I've also been to good steakhouses in Omaha, Las Vegas, LA, etc. Truluck's can hang.

The filet was awesome, could have cut that sucker with a toothpick (cooked perfectly) ... great crab cakes too. Also had a dessert that kicked much *** ... semi-sweet chocolate cake crust with espresso flavored ice cream and Oreo cooking topping.

I know there is going to be an onslaught of steak snobs who call me an amateur, but so be it.

Truluck's served me the best cut of meat I've had inside the Austin city limits.

The end.

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I haven't had a steak there, some tempting seafood always draws my attention away before I can get it ordered. I agree the food is really good there.
 
I take it you like chain restaurants. Nothing wrong with that.

I suggest trying steak at some other high-end Austin restaurants. The steak I had at the Four Seasons was one of the best things I have ever eaten. The setting is very nice as well.
 
Don't make a point to always choose chain's, but I let my wife have most of the say on where we go for "nice" dinners.

We're a relatively young couple (27, 25), so when we go nice I want it to be some place she wants to go ... not a place I choose because I hear the steak is great.

Last night she wanted Truluck's. Solid choice.
 
chain is a harsh word -- it's not like they're all over the country -- they have several locations in several cities, that's it.
 
Truluck's isn't a chain, in my opinion. It's damn good food. Not the best, but it's pretty damn good.

I like most everything I have ever had there.
 
Hot hostess for sure.

Food is pretty good, I perfer Eddie V's in Austin at least.

But I like that I can go there for lunch.
 
There is a Trulucks right down the road from my apartment on 183 and Great Hills Trail but I've never eaten there. I'm a poor college student but I enjoy going to a good restaraunt if it is reasonably priced, what is the price range there?
 
I've had a $200 gift certificate to there for about 1 year, guess I need to find the time to check it out, hell it's only a couple of blocks away
 
We just ate there tonight.

I had a big post about what all we ate and how it was but my computer just ate it.

Let me just say that we will be going back. We left very full and happy. It has a good atmosphere and lots of good dishes to choose from.
 
just ate there the other night, had the steak and it was great. fried shrimp was really good too. best meal i've had in a long time.
 
We've been several times in the past and enjoyed it every single time. Great food, service, atmosphere. Matter of fact, we have reservations for Mother's Day lunch there tomorrow.
 
Mrs. Chief and I eat at the one on 183/Great Hills quite alot. It is easily as solid as Eddie V's, Ruth Chris, Flemings, etc... We eat in the bar, the seating is exellent, and you do not have to wait for an hour and a half out front because you didn't make reservations. If you are pretty spontaneous on good meals, you can get in pretty easy. The 9 oz. filet medium rare with 3 stone crab claws and bernaise is my favorite meal in Austin.

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their seasonal crab is excellent. wife and I go there, sit at the bar, eat crab, drink wine, split a salad/crabcake, whatever. an affordable way to have some great food and not feel over-stuffed afterwards.
 
assuming they still do it, their power lunch is ******* awesome. i think it's like $20 a person and you get to choose a salad, one of four or five entree options, and maybe a desert or something. delicious.
 
I've been saying it for years...I'll take truluck's steak over ruth's chris, sullivans or eddie v's. I'm sure they have great seafood as well, but I've yet to order anything but the filet.
 
There aren't very many "chains" that catch their own seafood.

Sometimes the restaraunt snob crowd around here is way out of control.

Trulucks is a top notch place by any reasonable standard.
 
We go to Truluck's a few times a month -- it is our restaurant of choice for nice meals. I have often wondered why it never seems to get any love on HF. I like it much better than Sullivan's, Fleming's, Eddie V's, and Ruth's Chris. We usually eat at the one downtown, but the north location is excellent as well. As someone else mentioned, eating at the bar there is a great option.

I always have the jalapeno salmon bearnaise and then the chocolate sack for dessert (although last time I had it, they omitted the cream cheese icing, which is the best part
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I don't like fish, so we rarely eat there, but on one occasion I had some kind of mild whitefish whcih was surprisingly palatable, and on another, I had the steak, which definitely didn't come close to the better steaks I've had at Fleming's. I'd rate it as being one of Austin's better restaurants, but based on my limited exposure, I don't get the hype.
 
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