Booger Red's Restaurant

Kaylee is one of the greatest bar tenders we've ever had! Great drinks, great food, great ambiance!

Interesting, neat and clean. Unwilling to sit you at a table if you aren't ordering food and there are only a few chairs at the bar. Server was unfriendly. Barely a word to us.

Great place at the Stockyards. Sat at the bar. Serve food and drinks. Go check them out

Steak, ribs, sweet thighs and baked beans were delicious. Also the baked bread was amazing. The corn lacked a bit of flavor and the skillet potatoes were just okay. The drinks were huge and delicious. The service was great and the ambiance is just what we wanted. The ole saloon feel. Recommended

At the Ft Worth Stockyards in Texas. Stopped in at Booger Reds Saloon. We sat at the bar for lunch. They have some saddles for seats. Great Saloon atmosphere. Just a good old place to eat, drink and get that Cowboy feeling. Jeanette was our bartender.... what a pleasant young lady. Full of smiles with that Texan accent!! Great service. After ordering our Buffalo Butt beers..... We ordered the brisket platter w/ coleslaw & fire roasted creamed corn w/ sausage. Brisket was tender and full of flavor!! Could make a full meal out of the creamed corn . Over the top delicious. YUM !!!! YES...... highly recommended !!!!

Allison the bartender with pink hair was incredible. She was very helpful and recommended a lot of great things on the menu.I will be coming back! Drinks were solid.

The catfish was absolutely paperthin, deep-fried horrible not even warm the french fries, horrible cold flimsy this was not impressive nor worth even the time it's take me to write this

Alright so, Booger Red's is "named in honor of the legendary Texas bronc-busting champion Samuel Thomas Privett (1858-1926)." But I still don't know WHY it's called "Booger Red's" specifically.. I guess that was Samuel TP's nickname? But why? Let me go google... Okay I'm back and I sort of regret looking further into this. The story of Booger Red is tragic! What the heck... So Sammy TP was called Red since he was a child because he had red hair. Got that half of his nickname out of the way. He was the greatest "bronco breaker" (poor wild horses) of all time and he's credited with originating the modern day rodeo (ugh not a fan) -- anyway, he advertised himself thusly: "Come and see him ride, the ugliest man dead or alive, Booger Red!" Why was he so ugly, you ask? Because as children of confederate soldiers often did, 12 year old Sammy and his bff were playing with gunpowder on Christmas Day, stuffing a dead tree with it to make fireworks. Sadly the gunpowder exploded early, throwing Sammy 20 feet through the air and killing his poor friend! Sammy lived, but he was gravely injured in the explosion. Legend has it (honestly I've no idea how accurate this story is, so legend has it) that a neighbor kid saw Sammy being carried to the hospital, took one look at his mutilated little face and cried out, "gee, but Red sure is boogered up now!" And apparently "boogered" is an adjective meaning crippled, maimed, or disfigured. Who knew? So poor Sammy was blind in the hospital for six months and while he fully recovered, he was very very disfigured. He basically had no more eyes, nose, or mouth, just little holes.... He was described as looking like "a pumpkin with bullet holes for eyes." So sad! Why did this have to happen?!Anyway, Sammy's family would tease him and call him "Booger Red" after that one rude neighbor kid started it.. I guess the nickname made Sammy laugh, so there you have it. This saloon is named after him! He never stopped breaking broncos and went on to become super famous for it.Booger Red's is right between H3 Ranch and The Stockyards Hotel. It's a long and narrow saloon lined with an enormous bar and giant stools, and some of the stools are saddles. Fun. This saloon is probably the most classic looking and feeling "Wild West saloon" in the stockyards district. It's thoroughly decked out in all things cowboy from the floors to the wall-mounted animals to the paintings of dance hall girls to the vintage pulley fan system lazily circulating air far above your hat hook.Behind the bar is an enormous mounted buffalo butt... lucky for you I'll give you the short story this time: the Hunter brothers (restaurant next door) hunted buffalo and said the only thing that got them through those long hot days of looking at buffalo butts was an ice cold beer. And that's that! Booger Red's is famous for its Buffalo Butt Beer which is crafted in small batches and always served in a bottle, in an ice bucket. You gotta try it at least once. And of course you can order food from H3 Ranch's menu; ribs, steaks, nachos, spit-roasted pig, fried catfish, lots more. It's fun here. It feels like you're on a the set of a western, so just lean into it and spend some time bar-side with your boots up.

Bad service and okay food. Supposed to be great if you love steak. The Broccoli Cheddar Bacon bites are great. Service was bad but likely just our server. The other servers around were much mire attentive. Not recommended if you don't want to eat red meat.

This was our first time at the Stockyards in over ten years and we were very excited about having lunch at Booger Red's. Unfortunately, we were met with terrible service. We sat at the bar while waiting for a table. We noticed after ordering drinks that and my mother's barstool was falling apart. So much so that a strip of leather was hanging off with sharp tacks sticking out. It was dangerous. When we told the bartender he bluntly said he didn't have anything else to sit on and he could take it away or she could sit and risk it. No apologies and no worries about her safety.The female bartender was very sweet and although she was busy, she was attentive and suggested some specialty drinks. They were yummy!The hosts were some of the most rude young ladies I have ever come in contact with. I was really surprised at how inhospitable and rude they were for such an iconic location in Texas. No Texas hospitality at this host stand! WOOF. Luckily our experience was somewhat saved by the quality of food. My boyfriend ordered the chicken fried steak and I got a brisket barbecue sandwich. Both were delicious! I hope they have friendlier staff working the next time we go in for a meal. It's an awesome environment with a lot of things to look at in the heart of the stockyards. Such a pity we they had such rude staff.