Dixie Chicken

Worst BLT I have ever eaten! Not only was the bacon burnt to a crisp, there was a very thin slice of tomato and one piece of lettuce! Plus you have to order and go pick it up!!! For $ 5.50.

For years I didn’t know what to make of this place. Skeptical. Hesitant. But like some weird siren, something about it kept beckoning me. This place is defiantly weird.
Come on all you haters, the Chicken is an absolute gas. Learn to play dominoes.
Took a new co-​worker and his wife (both from Yankee-​land) here and they absolutely loved it. There is beer here of the craft variety… lots of it in fact and it is good. The only food I’ve had is that weird weird jalapeño summer sausage and cheese plate, which is so bad its good. Really, no joke.
Many pool tables, which is cool since I love to play pool.
How can you not like this place? Oh yeah its open late on Sunday too!

Apparently if you have a SC drivers license its fake, even if you show them your military ID, and you’ll be kicked out with no explanation.

How quaint this place is — I was there this Spring. It’s an old building in an old part of town, surrounded by bars. It’s all burgers and fried food, but good stuff!

We were told we HAD to eat here and check it out. The first sense you get it the smell of stale/​skunk beer. I didn’t know it was a drive bar. It is cozy and they have a lot of TV’s. The hallways and bathrooms are tight but once you get through the sitting area is pretty open. I guess everyone gets the suggestion that they HAVE to check out Dixie Chicken because they were busy on the food side. After a few pitchers of beer we decided to get some queso and a burger. The food was mediocre and the queso was Velveeta adjacent. It was luke warm, very thick and kept breaking our chips. If multiple pitchers of beer didn’t make this food good nothing will. The bartenders were good and fun and make great shots… I would swing by but plan on a good meal.

This is a Texas A&M institution and an original dive bar that happens to have a grill. Don’t go here for the food or frosted mugs of beer. I literally laughed out loud on the bad food reviews. That’s not what this place is about. If you are hungry, they will feed you but don’t expect a 5 star dining experience. It is a no frills beer joint to hang out with friends, play pool, or play dominoes. Oh, and if your kids come home singing good night Irene, they’ve spent a few nights closing down ‘the chicken’.
If you want to go to one of the few places left that started around A&M back in the day now, this is one. It has been around a long time, and it will give you the feel of a simple, no nonsense good time for hanging out. I actually met Don Gatner, and he was quite the character who loved A&M and the students.

Best burgers! Their prices went up from last time I was here. I blame it on the introduction of Grub. I guess they realized people will pay for a good burger. Any who, best burgers! Must try

I went to grad school at TAMU but never went to Dixie, Chicken so I enjoyed going 27 yrs, later. Great burgers and onion rings for lunch. Atmosphere probably better at night. Parking free during lunch time but you have to pay during dinnertime. TAMU icon

Great fun! Great burgers! Great beer selection!

This place was open and had good food I got myself a cheeseburger and fries that tasted great and a cold beer. It’s good place that’s open late with food in the Northgate neighborhood

So about a month ago, I was in College Station for the first time ever. Before heading home, we decided to grab something to eat and asked a friend of ours who graduated from A&M to give us a «must» place to eat at. He told us we had to go to the Dixie Chicken.
He must have been too drunk to know the difference every time he was there, because, while it is a great bar, the food is horrible. I had chicken strips and they tasted like they were the cheap frozen chicken strips from Sam’s Club. My husband had no better luck with his food. Overall, it was a let down in the food department. However, I can see the appeal of the place as a college hang out spot: good cheap drinks, pool tables, etc.

You literally CAN NOT make a trip to Aggieland without stopping by the Dixie Chicken for cold one. It would be a crime and a tragedy.

There isn’t very much to say here so i’ll keep it short. The burgers here are really good, they are juicy and available in variety. Also, they have a burger special on Mondays that gives you half price burgers. The fries are pretty good and the onion rings are very good. When you couple that with endless tea, you have a recipe for a smile on any given day. It is usually very loud in here, but I enjoy the atmosphere. I’m giving this a perfect score because everything they do is done well. This is a great casual hangout with simple food that tastes good.
Get the double meat cheeseburger with some tea and onion rings. When you do, make sure you thank me personally. I don’t drink and I totally suggest you come here.

great pre-​game festivities for the Aggies home game.
Good food, fast service… VERY busy, but they still pull it off.

Average food. I dont see what the hype is. Drinks are good. Nice day to sit outside.

«If you be my Dixie Chicken, I’ll be your Tennessee Lamb»
So we go tearing into Aggie Land to have a BIG TIME for the night and
came to the fortunate conclusion we should shove some chow down our
throat before we commenced to abuse The Beer. After walking about looking
for a good place that will put up with a Sooner born & Sooner bred dude I followed
my Little Feet instincts and we slid on in the back way.
Them ol’ boys in there were great to us! Said, «Oh no! We got us some outlaws!
Feed them cats STAT!!!» After arguein’ over what I don’t like and deciding we were
«doomed as doomed can be» we snagged us some DEATH BURGERS!
How can ya go wrong with good grease sammich with the jalapeño fruit & hot sauce?
No really, I’m asking…
Right…
Anywho, while they were simmering them up for us we slid on down to the bar
& snagged up some Lone Stars. She was right neighborly to us and asked if we
wanted the smaller one or the big un. Well we love big uns so she kept her end
of the bargain. Those son-​of-​a-​guns had to be 64 oz’s of cold beer goodness!
Gettin to the thick of the plot, by then the Death Chow was ready so we meandered out on the deck to gobble down the grub and observe the wonderful Co-​Ed scenery. All the locals there weren’t shy a bit to come up and jabber with us and made us feel right at home. I was right down obliged to all them for helping us start the night out on the good foot.
In conclusion, it may not be a 5 star watering hole but it doesn’t need to be! I was
mighty pleased with the service & though I’ve had better meat the spicy add ons made it one pleasing mess of vittles to gnaw on. I don’t see any reason not to give em a visit
if you find yourself wandering down University Drive on a Friday night.
Oh yeah… There’s a rumor they got em a real live rattler in there to look at.
Let me know if you see it and wear shoes walking down the ally.

What would a trip to College Station be without a trip to The Chicken? Had a burger and fries along with a pitcher of Lone Star. If you are looking for a light food option, this is not the place for you. All menu items are deep fried or burgers.
This place has great people watching and is great to hit up during the summer when less packed with people.

A College Station tradition that can usually spell trouble for me. So I’m glad we were just passing through and grabbing lunch. Decent food, cold beer, and cheap prices. Got to love the Chicken!!!

If you love dives and authentic local color /​flavor then this is THE College Station hang out. Ask a regular to show you how to play 42, a uniquely Texan domino game.
The Dixie Chicken is famous for their burgers. I had one. It was the embodiment greasy goodness. The fries were crispy steamy salty goodness: so warm and so moist, so wonderfully bad for you.
They have graffiti covered walls, wooden tables carved with names, mounted deer heads on the walls, Robert Earl Keen blasting from the speakers yet very clean pool tables. I saw one ceiling fan with only three blades spinning lopsidedly. Oh yeah! I loved that!
At one end of the pool room there was a display case with a real live rattle snake. I am uploading a pic with me pointing to it.
When you go to the men’s restroom, they have signs to explain to male patrons to please not confuse the urinal with an ice chest. A shelf is provided above the urinal so that one can place one’s long neck bottle safe out of harm’s way. I won’t say anymore. You have to see it for yourself.
This is the real deal. Not a bum a deal. But a cool deal.

This right here is quintessential Northgate.
How can you not love the Chicken, with its average bar food, dirt cheap pitchers, tables built for playing 42, live rattlesnake, and best of all, the license plates on the floor to patch up the holes between the floorboards?
Are you just visiting? Go here to see our school roots… back when all we had was the whistle of the train, the thud of an Aggie ring in a pitcher, and the sound of spurs on the concrete.
That being said, get the Tijuana cheese fries and dip ‘em in ranch, play a few rounds of 42, and come here to hang out.
Protip: learn to hold all 7 of your dominos with two hands. Tables are too worn to stand ‘em up.