Great Chicken Wings

Reviewer: Harry

Review Date: 08/12/2008 11:33PM

Rating: +3/+3(Great)

You have got to try the messy grilled chicken wings. Really Really Yummy.

Love their ranch sauce with it. I really don't care about the girls.

My friends just don't believe me that I go their for wings only.

You gotta be kidding me

Reviewer: Jscro

Review Date: 04/07/2008 09:27AM

Rating: -1/+3(Crap)

Another place for men who refuse to believe they are too old for fraternity life. Sadly, I noticed more of these types of places opening. Fear for our future.

Well Let's talk!!!

Reviewer: Bob Pietrasik

Review Date: 03/19/2008 09:42PM

Rating: +3/+3(Great)

I love this place, can you guess why?, YEP!!! and the food is good also.
The waitreees are great and very efficient and as you know very pretty and
in nice outfits. We all like to oggle!!!!!!!

Now about the food, the BBQ is very good, so are the burgers and fries,
Highly recommend.

Get there early on Friday's for lunch or you will have a long wait.

Surprisingly good food

Reviewer: Deb

Review Date: 03/06/2008 09:30PM

Rating: +3/+3(Great)

Didn't know about the skimpy waitress outfits until I went there with friends but I'm glad I didn't know about them beforehand or I would've probably not gone. I was pleasantly surprised at both the atmosphere and especially the food. The girls were very cute but none acted like a "Hooter's Ho". They were just as sweet and friendly to my two-year-old niece as they were to the manly-men in our party. The decor includes a lot of interesting things to look at (besides the waitresses). The food was excellent and I've been back there a half-dozen times or so because of it. The babyback ribs are saucy and fall-off-the-bone tender - my favorite on the menu. Their burgers are wonderful. I'm addicted to the french-fries and I don't even LIKE french fries. They've got a pulled pork sandwich that makes your mouth water. We tried their queso on the last trip and I thought it was very yummy. Even their salads are good. Ladies, you can go here and not feel out-of-place like at a Hooters. Gentlemen, you can go here and thoroughly enjoy yourselves. I'm taking my husband there to lunch tomorrow and can't wait!!!

Best burger & onion rings

Reviewer: anonymous

Review Date: 08/28/2007 01:35PM

Rating: +2/+3(Goooood)

It's a step up from the typical Friday's/Chili's type of lunch. The onion rings are one of my favorites and the burger is just the way I like it - very juicy and topped off w/ cheese, bacon, and bbq sauce.

so much better than hooters

Reviewer: matt

Review Date: 08/20/2007 07:20PM

Rating: +1/+3(Not bad)

bbq is good here, so are the fries, so are the jalapeno poppers.

The Best

Reviewer: chribrian

Review Date: 08/16/2007 07:07PM

Rating: +3/+3(Great)

Hooters no the food and the girls makes hooters look like trailer park trash!!!!!!!!! Rob u are just jelouse cause u dont have a chance with the girls and u are uncomfortable amoungst the beauties!!!!!!!!!

wow

Reviewer: Razorman3

Review Date: 06/03/2007 05:47PM

Rating: +3/+3(Great)

Food? What food?. I was so into the scenery (if ya know what I mean) that after an hour of looking I paid someone elses tab and left. About an hour later I wondered why I was still hungry. Duh. I went back and this time ordered some grub. Gotta say,.... I used to brag about the ribs that I can make but theirs just fell off the bone. Damn good bbq ribs. So take my advice so the same thing doesn't happen to you. Put a rubber band around your wrist to remind yourself to also order some food while you are there and try not to look for stage #2 to tip the dancers cause it ain't there. I know I looked......

Skanky and Expensive

Reviewer: amysuehere

Review Date: 04/02/2007 04:47PM

Rating: 0/+3(Ho hum)

Hooters bbq

Great place

Reviewer: Mike

Review Date: 03/30/2007 04:48PM

Rating: +3/+3(Great)

My Bonedaddy's experience was good. We were in town for a week and ate at least one meal a day there for the five days we were in town. The food was good, the staff was friendly. I must say that Whitney made it a pleasurable experience with her smile and friendly personality.
I notice many compare it to a Hooters and I will say that it has similar features but on a whole, it is a classier establishment. Not the stuck up commercialized joint that Hooters has become. I will frequent Austin's Bonedaddy's every visit.

Thanks

Better than Hooters

Reviewer: Jeff

Review Date: 01/12/2007 10:46PM

Rating: +2/+3(Goooood)

Same theme as Hooters, but good food, friendly staff, and you don't come out smelling like fired everything.

Hey, just a fun place for the guys. Food, cold beer, sports on TV, and oh yeh, great looking, friendly girls......Is ther eanything else in life?

8th Wonder of the world

Reviewer: Jesse Rodriguez

Review Date: 10/19/2006 09:54AM

Rating: +3/+3(Great)

Hands down no doubt about it ! :)

They serve food?

Reviewer: Arnold T. Pants

Review Date: 09/18/2006 12:57PM

Rating: +2/+3(Goooood)

More lower-back tatoos than you can shake a camera phone at! Oh yea, and the food ain't bad either.

Great Ribs

Reviewer: Hal

Review Date: 07/26/2006 05:47PM

Rating: +3/+3(Great)

My wife and I have been eating here since we found that their ribs were the best in Austin. Their beans are also the best I have had since moving to Texas.

Good Burgers, nice scenery

Reviewer: Jason

Review Date: 05/31/2006 09:44AM

Rating: +2/+3(Goooood)

This place is a step up from Hooters, although still in the same general category. The burgers are good: thick, not dry but not too greasy. Haven't tried any of the other menu items. The waitresses are generally cute and friendly, so nothing to com plain about there.

Good Food, Better Service

Reviewer: Brady

Review Date: 05/28/2006 10:35PM

Rating: +2/+3(Goooood)

When it comes to restaurant food, I'm perhaps too forgiving. I'm no cook and if the staff can put together a plate that tastes better than I could do, they get a recommendation from me. I just read a review by Austin's Rob Balon (who often hosts and guests on 590 KLBJ) that slammed Bone Daddy's. Well, I'll give some credit to Rob for knowing his food and his service, since he seems to eat at a lot of places that I don't. But I don't agree with him.

Anyway, I regularly frequent Magnolia Cafe, Threadgill's, and Tan Tan. I've been to Shady Grove, Chuy's, Katz's, and many other Austin traditions plenty of times. All of these have good food at good prices. Bone Daddy's food is just as good (certainly no worse). But I have to say, even if it's all fake, Bone Daddy's (and Razoo's, while we're at it) at least make a pretense at being friendly to a customer.

"How many? Just one? Right this way..." bonk-bonk-bonk as the hostess marches me across the wooden floor to my seat at Threadgills.

"Um, dude. Just, like, take a table. Whereever, man." Says the Mag' staffer by the "Please wait to be seated" sign.

I don't expect the staff to be my friend and I know Austin is known for "casual." Maybe, but it strikes me now, having been to Bone Daddy's, as being thoughtless, too. Ironic, since they exist in a state generally known for it's hospitality. Or was known.

"And how are you doing this evening?" asks the Bone Daddy hostess. "Will this table be okay?" Dang, she may not really care, but at least she asked and waited for an answer. "Fine, thanks! Yeah, this spot'll be fine for me." (YMMV.)

But I won't kid, either. Neither Bone Daddy's nor Razoos strike me as particularly family-oriented or a good spot for a dinner date. But families were eating there and guys brought their dates. Yeah, the waitresses are attractive (I thought so) and they do wear skimpy outfits. And once in a while they'll stop by the table for a minute of idle chit chat. Nothing wrong with that to me as long as I'm not in the middle of a bite.

I think I'm easy to cater to. I show up in clean clothes and well-groomed. I try to give a pleasant smile when I walk in. I don't ask for anything special for my plate that isn't shown on the menu and I try to make things easy on the staff if they have a question. I generally tip %20. Sometimes more. But never worse than %15-- and that rarely. The food only has to be good, not "amazing." The waitstaff need only have a pleasant attitude and look me in the face when they talk to me. Bone Daddy's waitstaff have been pleasant to deal with and that's all the difference to me. Bone Daddy's staff get 25% from me for at least pretending to give a damn.

Ass hat sandwich

Reviewer: a311shark

Review Date: 04/24/2006 06:44PM

Rating: 0/+3(Ho hum)

This place sucks a big ol bag o dicks. I ordered the brisket and longingly looked towards Rudys wich is bad to begin with and wondered why I was a B Daddys. Then I figured it all out. I was seated below the stairs.

If you are hungry for something other than boiled beef grab a freakin poptart before you go here.

PS sit under the stairs

Great Atmosphere

Reviewer: Mitch Gore

Review Date: 03/17/2006 03:20PM

Rating: +3/+3(Great)

For all you whiney asses out there, what do you expect when you eat at a place called Bone Daddy's. The atmosphere is great and the food is very good. But if your looking to bring a guest that you want to have a quiet dinner with, than go to a more formal/elegant restaurant. If you want to drink a beer and have a good meal with some great scenery then this is the place to go!!!!!!!!!!

Reviewer: heavenlyphil

Review Date: 02/23/2006 02:10AM

Rating: +2/+3(Goooood)

The difference between this place and Hooter's is that these girls are actually attractive and the food doesn't taste like rotten shrimp.

Once people wise up to Bone Daddy's, Hooter's will be saying, "Hooterned out the lights?!" BAM! Go to sleep!

A Fun Place

Reviewer: Laura

Review Date: 02/20/2006 06:08PM

Rating: +3/+3(Great)

Sure there are gorgeous girls that are overly chatty but as I observed, they were just as friendly to the female patrons and overall the atmosphere was fun and layed back. The food was great - Queso Dip is out of this world, ribs are delicious and I had no complaints. If you don't like the girls' little outfits I wouldn't recommend you go to Schlitterbahn either.
Lighten up and enjoy the food!

Reviewer: getalife

Review Date: 01/03/2006 05:04PM

Rating: +3/+3(Great)

C'mon folks. This is what you always wanted, a hooters without the cheesy hose. It's great! The girls are cute as the preverbal button and as if that ain't enough, the pulled pork is as good as it gets on this side of the river (Yeah -i've been around) Slap some coleslaw on it and feed while watching and hoping the table next to you gets another round.

This Place Is Great!

Reviewer: Paul Johnson

Review Date: 12/16/2005 06:50PM

Rating: +3/+3(Great)

I met at Bone Daddy's for a lunch meeting, Now i do have to say the food was excellent and ya know it odes not matter about the wait staff because the Food Was Wonderful and i will always go back for more!!!

It's OK

Reviewer: James McDermott

Review Date: 11/19/2005 12:23AM

Rating: 0/+3(Ho hum)

How come this is the only restaurant reviewed where there are no pictures? I want to see the skanky environment ahead of time before I go there.

Get off it. The food is GOOD.

Reviewer: Chris Sparks

Review Date: 11/01/2005 12:40PM

Rating: +3/+3(Great)

Yes, there are cute girls there. Yes, it makes you think of Hooters, but let me set straight anyone who thinks this place is a Hooter's clone.

There are no annoying Friday's or Joe's Crab Shack style antics like the ones they pull at Hooters. The girls are slightly flirtatious, but it's downplayed to just a shade of over-friendlyness.

The food is damn good. Not just good. It's not going to set the standard by which you judge your dining, but on the premise of food alone, it deserves it's spot among the other places in town like Chuy's and Threadgills that you should eat at, at least once.

The babyback ribs are fall-off-the-bone tender. They have seasoned fries which I'm actually a fan of (and good mashed potatos and gravy if you aren't.) and their smokehouse turkey club is a good combo of juicy turkey and salty ham and bacon. Also, their queso is quite unique and I'm a big fan of it as well. The burgers stand up well against the better burger places in town such as Huts, Waterloo and (yeah it's a chain, get over it) Fudruckers.

Hooters Who????

Reviewer: Jeff

Review Date: 10/28/2005 02:59PM

Rating: +3/+3(Great)

This place beats Hooters hands down! And the food? Who goes there for the food? The food is good nonetheless, much better than some of the other Austin restaurants that claim great bbq but fall short. It's a great place to go and get plenty of eye candy. Very hot "Girl Next Door" hotties!

Great BBQ

Reviewer: Dave Thomas

Review Date: 10/27/2005 07:02PM

Rating: +3/+3(Great)

The food is good and the scenery is great. Unlike Hooters most of these girls are natural and sweet. Also, the outfits are an upgrade.

Reviewer: lindee

Review Date: 09/25/2005 10:07AM

Rating: +1/+3(Not bad)

I don't like how my daughter dressess, and I need your phone number

Actually decent food for me

Reviewer: M1EK

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Review Date: 09/15/2005 06:03PM

Rating: +2/+3(Goooood)

The barbeque items are pretty good - and the beans were delicious. It is skanky, though, and overpriced for what you get, but considering the locale, you don't have many better options for the more southeastern-style barbequeue that they sling.