Diners' Choice: Innovative restaurants in Texas Panhandle

OpenTable

Updated June 05, 2025

Looking for the best restaurants that are fit for foodies in Texas Panhandle? You’re in the right place. Each month, OpenTable analyzes nearly 2 million global diner reviews from the past four months. We sort the results by location and category to help you discover new favorite restaurants. It's a great partnership: you reserve, eat, and review. We listen...and deliver the results for all to benefit. Enjoy!

Skyviews Restaurant of Texas Tech

4.9

4.9 (339)

$31 to $50

American

Lubbock

About the restaurant

While you may not realize it, you have chosen to dine in a Texas Tech University classroom! Skyviews Restaurant is a full-service, largely self-supporting restaurant designed and operated to provide a hospitality laboratory experience for up to 50 students each week. While you are enjoying an excellent meal in the lovely surroundings, students are developing skills and applying knowledge. Every day is a learning experience for our students, and we welcome comments and suggestions as we strive to improve your dining experience. We greatly appreciate your patronage.

Please note that reservations are limited due to the nature of our restaurant. Dinner reservations fill up quickly and will close 24 hours prior to dinner. If OpenTable does not allow a reservation or blocks out a timeslot, that signifies we are full for that time and/or day.

Top review

Nancy

Dined on Apr 23, 2025

Spare ribs were quite fatty, but the rest of the meal was delicious. Service was good. Nice setting allowing for conversation.

Metropolitan Steak & Seafood

4.8

4.8 (470)

$50 and over

Steakhouse

Amarillo

About the restaurant

Metropolitan:
Our amazing food is a result of a menu selection of prime steaks, chops, and seafood complimented with an extensive wine list and world-class bar service.

Executive Chef: Nori Karimi
Michelin Star Recipient

Top review

Cassie

Dined on Jun 21, 2025

We absolutely love Metropolitan. Every time we go it is an absolute pleasure. The food is always amazing, the staff is wonderful, the atmosphere is fantastic! We will keep coming back!

Sa•Vor

4.7

4.7 (316)

$31 to $50

Tapas / Small Plates

Amarillo

About the restaurant

Contrary to what most think, the word tapas actually means "to cover". Rooted as a tradition in Spanish culture, socializing patrons of restaurants would cover their wine glasses with small plates to protect their beverages from insects and small pests while outdoors. At Savor, we pay homage to this ritual in our own unique way. The urban and chic atmosphere invites locals to step outside Amarillo for an evening and into another place entirely. With an urban, speakeasy vibe, Savor welcomes its patrons to sit comfortably at the bar or in a cozy booth next to the floor to ceiling windows.

Top review

Wesley

Dined 5 days ago

Very good lunch experience. Good service, good food, quiet enough for conversation.

Azul - Kickapoo Lucky Eagle Casino Resort

4.7

4.7 (108)

$31 to $50

Steakhouse

Eagle Pass

About the restaurant

Located in a relaxed, modern environment, Azul offers Mexican cuisine served with fresh ingredients and warm hospitality. Experience local favorites, friendly service and delicious specialty drinks from our extensive bar selection.

Top review

Michael

Dined on Jun 19, 2025

Jacob our waiter is the best. He deserves all the good things he can get. Food was really good. Fajitas very tender, charro beans shockingly good. inferno Pasta is a really good dish. Top tier in our book

Copper Creek Fine Texas Dining

4.6

4.6 (652)

$31 to $50

Steakhouse

Abilene

About the restaurant

Copper Creek Fine Texas Dining serves hand cut mesquite grilled steaks and the freshest seafood selection in Abilene. We also have an fantastic lunch menu! Guests will also enjoy a full wine list, craft cocktails and craft beers and our once a month brunch, held on the first Saturday of every month!

Top review

Michael

Dined 7 days ago

We enjoyed a fantastic anniversary dinner at Copper Creek. The food, the service and the ambiance were all perfect. Thanks, Deidra & Ryan, for another fine dining experience. -Mike

Drunken Oyster

4.6

4.6 (788)

$31 to $50

Unspecified

Amarillo

About the restaurant

The Drunken Oyster atmosphere will bring you into the Heart of the French Quarter, With the sounds you hear on the streets of French Quarter, Gas Lanterns, Heavy Drapes, aged Brick and Library laddered bar. The food is a compilation of Cajun Inspired dishes and fresh flown in daily Seafood and Oysters. The Drunken Oyster also Offers Aged Certified Angus beef Cuts. There is something for everyone, Salads, burgers, Po Boys, Gator, Crawfish,to name a few options.

Top review

Bryan

Dined on Jun 15, 2025

The food was amazing like always and our server was great!!!

Cask & Cork

4.6

4.6 (465)

$30 and under

Contemporary American

Amarillo

About the restaurant

Welcome to Cask & Cork, casual comfort and fine dining!

Cask & Cork is a restaurant and bar with a scenic rooftop patio. Cask & Cork strives to offer an experience that strikes the perfect balance between casual comfort and fun dining. Offering an extensive menu with mouth-watering features & craft beverages.

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Alan

Dined on Jun 20, 2025

We were promptly seated in the roof bar area. We had a great view. Our server quickly brought our drinks. Our waiter took our food order and the food came promptly. We had an enjoyable dinner and will try this restaurant again the next time that we are in town.

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Toscana Italian Steakhouse

4.6

4.6 (318)

$31 to $50

Italian

Amarillo

About the restaurant

Merging classic cowboy cultures, Toscana brings the iconic flavors of Italy and its cattle-country to West Texas. Serving beef that would make any Panhandle rancher proud, we source our ingredients from nearby farms and fields, and offer an outstanding selection of local and international wines and spirits. Pull up a seat, grab a glass, and allow our staff to take you on this culinary journey.

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Phillip

Dined 1 day ago

The menu was varied and our server was prompt and attentive. Each of our meals were cooked to perfection. The drink menu offered a little bit of everything. All in all a pleasant dining experience.

Claraboya Scratch Kitchen + Bar

4.6

4.6 (341)

$31 to $50

Contemporary Mexican

Lubbock

About the restaurant

Let us delight and tantalize you with an experience unlike no other. Savor a cuisine of bold flavors that will temp you to indulge and relax. Join us for a truly memorable dining experience.

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Patricia

Dined on Jun 11, 2025

Awesome food and service! We were pleasantly surprised this restaurant was inside of a hotel.

Reata Restaurant - Alpine

4.4

4.4 (899)

$30 and under

Steakhouse

Alpine

About the restaurant

The original Reata Restaurant located in the scenic Davis Mountains of west Texas offers the same fine dining and Legendary Texas Cuisine you can find at the Fort Worth location. Alpine, home to Sul Ross State University is near Texas tourist destination Big Bend National Park and the towns of Marathon, Fort Davis and Lajitas. Alpine is also a short drive from Marfa, Texas renowned both for the mysterious Marfa Lights and Donald Judd's Chinati Foundation. Reata, named after the legendary ranch in the James Dean classic movie, "Giant", which was filmed in nearby Marfa, boasts the same high quality Southwestern dining you can find in Fort Worth. This is not food for the faint of heart, from Chicken Fried Steak to Calf Fries or the Pepper Crusted Tenderloin and Cowboy Rib Eye Steak, this is a dining experience not to miss.

Top review

Gary

Dined on Jun 19, 2025

Service provided by bartender/waitress was outstanding. Kitchen not so much this evening ... steak off by two doneness levels and dessert was missing a key item. Been to Reata in Alpine multiple times. Usually top notch food prep. I'm guessing this was a one night exception. Will be back.

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