The Broken Spoke - a Chicken Fried Steak & Honky Tonk Kind O'Night

Are you lookin' for a real Chicken Fried Steak so big that the leftovers won't fit in the doggie bag? Are you lookin' for the best of the true Texas Honky Tonks for some after-dinner, toe-kickin', heel-stompin' two-steppin'? Well then, anybody who knows Austin, Texas will point you straight to the Broken Spoke! It is so good, even my redneck brother from Oklahoma couldn't get enough when he came to visit and saw Gary P. Nunn sing "London Homesick Blues" which was the original theme song for the famous PBS show, Austin City Limits. My brother insistently said, "I want to come back here and do some sh...kickin' every time I'm in Austin." Of course, he also walked out with an autographed copy of Gary P. Nunn's latest CD.

There is no typical evening at The Broken Spoke. You never know who is going to walk through the saloon-style swinging doors between the restaurant and the last of the true Texas dance halls. If you don't believe me, ask owner James White about the time the Queen of England's entourage stopped in to get a feel for what a true Texas Honky Tonk was like. On other occasions, James can tell you about visits from Clint Eastwood, Lonnie Anderson, Robert Duvall, Dolly Parton, Troy Aikman, and Willie Nelson. I should mention that James has autographed pictures of all these visitors hanging in his museum hallway on the way to the bathrooms.