One evening this past June, a group of teenage girls in softball uniforms filed into Humphrey Pete’s Restaurant & Steakhouse, in Early, about an hour and a half southeast of Abilene. Some held hands with their mothers as they walked across the dining room. “You sit there,” said one mom, directing her daughter. “No, y’all come over and sit here. The boys can have their own table,” said another, waving away husbands and brothers to uproarious laughter. Once everyone was settled, each table ordered the restaurant’s signature Texas Tumbleweeds: giant battered-and-fried onions, served sliced and fanned out, with a mildly spicy dipping sauce. They bowed their heads in prayer before picking up their forks and knives. Girls sipped from glasses of milk, their uniforms dusty,…The post The Texas Steakhouse Is the Restaurant America Needs Right Now appeared first on Texas Monthly.
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