The Barn Door

26 Jan 2025I forgot how good their mashed potatoes are! Got them tonight with my perfectly cooked 8oz filet. Also had the fabulous oysters Rockefeller. Yum. Come here.

Visited for the first time on a Tuesday day evening. My party of 6 arrived at 7pm. The host did not seemed pleased with our party size and instantly told us it would be a 45 minute wait. We said "No problem" and decided to wait as we were not convinced the wait time provided was accurate. We were sat 15 minutes later. The establishment had been there for many years and appears to have repeated customer base. The historical photos and restaurant memorabilia helps to pass your wait time. I ordered the sirloin steak (medium rare) and baked potato. My steak and baked potato was lukewarm at best. It definitely sat out for a while before it was served to us. The others in the party stated theirs was like warm as well. For a steak place I expect the meat dish to be their crown jewel. In this case it was just a shiny rock. The Barn Door is likely a one and done for myself.

I can't figure out how this restaurant is still in business. 30 years ago it was the place to go for a delicious, reasonably priced steak dinner. This week we went for an early weekday dinner. Just like the last time we were there, it was BAD. The prices keep going up while the quality goes down. My salad was iceberg lettuce, tomato slices, onion slices, and something--parsley?--sprinkled on top. Bland and uninspired. The steak was tasteless and gray; I had ordered it cooked medium. We cut our losses short and didn't order dessert. The "ambience " was a smattering of folks dressed for yard work who spent most of their waiting time looking at their phones with the volume switches up on high. The waitress was the only strong point--she checked in just often enough and got everything right. What used to be charming and quirky is now run down and kind of trashy. There are much better places in town for a steak dinner.

If you're coming for the steak you found the spot. They do provide bread and butter. When you order an entree it comes with your choice of potato style and salad.The sides and salad are okay! The highlight really is the perfectly cooked steak.We shared a 15 oz ribeye. Our waitress even split our salad for us.There is a speakeasy attached but it's reservation by text only.

It was a good experience. The service was great and the food was okay. The star of the show were the fresh dinner roles, but everything else was just okay. The ambiance is a little bit of a Time Machine warp of the 70s but it was tidy. Wouldn't know if I'd go back, but glad we tried it out. The salad wasn't too fresh and my steak was cold, but my son was enjoyed his grilled cheese.

Our server was the best part of the experience. She was patient and friendly despite the 20Plus people in our group. The steaks were either too dry or too rare, the fries soggy and cold. They don't serve crackers with the house salad anymore. The wings had bbq sauce literally dumped on them. There are way better places in San Antonio to get a quality steak and food in general.

Wow! My first time to The Barn Door and the food was amazing! I tired the fried mushrooms...they were big. The bacon wrapped chicken....delicious. And the cheese sticks...yum!! The bacon wrapped dates...order them!None of the food was super hot but it wasn't cold. We were in a Large group so the plates were passed around for a hot minute. All of it was super tasty and I would order all of them again! For my entree I ordered the chopped steak with the cheese on the side. The steak was delicious and wrapped in bacon! The cheese sauce was also good. I took it home to eat later. My side was a baked potato. It was under cooked. and the potato was hard but for not being upgraded, the regular potato had cheese, sour cream, and bacon bits. I took it home to reheat and make it softer. I ordered thousand island dressing with my salad. All of the dressings are homemade. There was green goddess and ranch that was brought for the table. All were tasty but none of them were as amazing as I'd hoped. I was with a big group and we could be hard to serve, but the food was delicious enough for me to warrant another trip back with the family. Also there was local and seasonal beer on tap Which I very much appreciated! Shiner Cheer was delicious!I will definitely be back! Thanks Barn Door for a great time!

Everything at this restaurant is amazing. They have been in San Antonio for so many years. The house salad is amazing. The big potatoes are amazing. You name it and it's great their Services are always nice as well. Definitely worth a try.!!!

Only thing this restaurant nails is the meat. My husband's pork chop was cooked to perfection and my sirloin was cooked just right. However, that's not a peach cobbler..its peach pie. And , the ranch on our side salad was bland. My husband asked for a mountain dew to drink and the server kind of snobby said we don't have that. When we first arrived, they asked if we had reservations...Yet restaurant was empty. Just taken back by that.

I'm in San Antonio on a temporary assignment, and I was tasked to find a good spot for dinner with a couple of co-workers, one of whom had to depart early. Not knowing if I would ever see them in person again after this trip, I had to be selective in deciding how best to bid farewell to him, at least for the time being. We had agreed on a nice steak dinner, but left the decision up to me on where to go.I'll be honest here, I was actually looking at a couple of Brazilian steakhouses by the Riverwalk, but as luck would have it, neither had reservations available for that night. I frantically searched online to find the best spot for all three of us, and I chose The Barn Door right off the 410 loop east of the 281. One of my Yelp friends from San Antonio awarded it five stars, and there was also a Yelp check-in offer of a free tea. Also, the prices seemed pretty reasonable, especially compared to other steakhouses in the Alamo City.Reservations were available that night for time slots at 15-minute increments, but oddly enough, not at 7 PM, our agreed upon time. We then agreed 6:45 PM was a good time for dinner, and so I made the reservation, which was done through SpotOn.Two of us arrived at 6:30 PM, and the hostess was willing to seat us even though the third person (not me lol) was a little late. We chose to wait, and then once he arrived, we were taken to our table in the Main Dining room.We were sat at a table between the open kitchen and a wall, which almost looked like a jail. Jewel (sp?) came by to introduce herself as our server. She was just that, a jewel! She did seem a little bashful since it was kind of hard to hear her, but it was only moderately loud at best during our visit, so it wasn't much hard of hearing here. Other than that, I enjoyed having her take good care of us!She started us off with drinks, and that's when I realized I had to check in to show her my Yelp check-in offer. She didn't recognize it at first, and then I had to tell her. I almost thought she was going to charge me for the tea, but luckily she didn't.Each of us chose an appetizer to share with one another. The others chose Fried Mushrooms and Fried Jalapenos. I chose the Wild Boar and Venison Sausages. Each of them came with their own sauce(s), and they were all good! It's worth mentioning there are nuances in the taste profile between Wild Boar and Venison, but they look so similar that even Jewel couldn't tell which was which. Did we care? No. Did we enjoy them? Yes!The others chose the Club Sirloin and Bacon Wrapped Tenderloin Filet as their entrees, both cooked Medium. I went with the 10 oz New York Strip, cooked Medium Well. I think my steak was a little undercooked, but I liked it better than the Ribeye I had at my hotel, which cost more than twice as much!As we were ordering, I didn't realize our entrees would come with a house or Caesar salad as well as a potato side. I had completely overlooked the bottom of the menu specifying that. There weren't that many choices for the potato side. One co-worker chose the mashed potatoes. The other chose the twice baked potato. I went with the (once) baked potato. Jewel asked if I'd like for it to be loaded, to which I answered affirmatively.For the salad, you get a choice of 5-6 dressings. I almost went with my go to, Honey Mustard, until Jewel mentioned there was Creamy Garlic, which sounded delish. And it was! The amount of dressing was pretty generous, and it was a generously-sized salad, much larger than a side salad!I enjoyed the (once) baked potato, which was loaded, but not fully loaded compared to the twice baked. The twice baked had more cheese, and I believe it also had jalapenos, which I didn't taste in my potato. However, there's a small upcharge for the twice baked; I don't recall how much of an upcharge it was.Everything was superb! There wasn't a bad bite that was had amongst the three of us. We had quite a bit of leftovers, and Jewel offered us takeout boxes and bags for each of us.We all enjoyed our meals, and both of my co-workers agreed I made a good choice for dinner that night. None of us had room for dessert, but I didn't want any anyways. Plus, the prices for the desserts weren't even shown on the menu, which I'm not sure why? A Southern Peach Cobbler would have hit the spot, but our appetites were more than satiated on this wonderful evening.In addition to the actual restaurant, there's a meat market as alluded to in the business name, but it was slim pickings at the time we went, at least for the display case out in front. Same with the desserts. We only saw a couple of pies and a cheesecake when we left.The interior decor is really nice! We appreciated how nicely decorated the interior was, and we were even in awe at a portrait of the restaurant from 1953!Thank you Barn Door for a wonderful dinner, and thank you Jewel for the wonderful service and hospitality! Keep up the great work Jewel! :)