Food Network

"Killen's offers true Texas cuisine — right down to the Smoked Pork and Black-Eyed Pea Gumbo and Chicken-Fried Sirloin Steak."

Christine Hà

"Quite possibly the best CFS I’ve had to date."

Alison Cook

"The addition of supper service, including formidable chicken-fried steak and stupendous onion rings, makes the oak-shaded location more useful than ever. Count me as somebody always glad to line up under the big grandmother oak tree to wait my turn at the counter."

Eric Sandler

"Houston's Best Chicken Fried Steak restaurants: Killen's Barbecue - This Tuesday-only special might be the best chicken fried steak currently available in Houston. It's perfectly crispy, fork tender and uses bacon fat in the gravy."

Houston Press

"Chicken-fried steak in white gravy is a Houston essential, but Ronnie Killen takes the dish to a new level. Here the CFS magic starts with a massive slab of Snake River Farms rib eye which sounds a bit outlandish, but actually lends itself to the most tender texture even when battered and fried to crispy, salty perfection on the outside."

Amy McCarthy

"38 Essential Houston Restaurants: Killen's Barbecue - Make a date with Killen’s on Tuesdays for a chicken fried steak that will put grandmama’s to shame."

Brooke Viggiano

"The Houston Restaurant Bucket List: Killen's - The crispy fried bird, CFS and carrot cake? They knock your maw-maw’s famed versions out of the damn park."

Joshua Bousel

"It's a perfect piece of chicken-fried steak: a beautiful browned crust with a tender and flavorful piece of beef swaddled within. It was exactly what a chicken fried steak should be, and exactly what I have yet to find in my home town of New York."