Eat · Downtown ACE District

Rooster’s Steak House

Fifty-plus years on Texas Avenue. Best Burger in Texas, 2016 — and they still act like it.

Open · 11am–8pm· Verified Sep 2026

Rooster’s Steak House

The Cox family has been feeding Historic Baytown from this dark, no-nonsense room since the 1970s. It is not a concept. It is a steakhouse that also smokes, also griddles a burger that won the state, and also puts banana pudding on the table like a benediction.

Sit downtown, skip the Garth Road chains, and eat like the refinery just let out. They close earlier than Houston restaurants. That is part of the civics.

  • Best Burger in Texas 2016
  • ribeye
  • banana pudding
  • Texas Avenue

Order this

The burger if it’s your first time. Ribeye if it isn’t. Banana pudding either way.

Local tip. They close earlier than Houston restaurants. Don’t wander over at 8:45.

Nearby / related

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Hidden-gem sushi a block off Town Square. Spicy tuna nachos, then whatever the chef is in the mood for.

206 W Texas Ave$$

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