Activities

Rodeo Food!

All types of food can be found, from traditional barbecue to fine cuisine. There is something to please everyone’s palate throughout Reliant Park.

Gold Buckle Foodie Awards

The Gold Buckle Foodie Awards are provided to the best of the best in eight different categories: Best New Flavor, Most Creative Food, Best Fried Food, Best Breakfast Food, Best Food on a Stick, Best Dessert, Classic Fair Food and Best Value.

2012 Winners

Best Breakfast Food: Burton Sausage - Classic Breakfast Taco
Best Value Food: Ranch House Meat Company - Pork Rib Plate
Best Food-on-a-Stick: Burger Joint RCS Carnival - The Big Rib
Classic Fair Food: Saltgrass Steakhouse - BBQ Pulled Pork Stuffed Baked Potato
Most Creative Food: Custom Confections - Lemon Cream Frosty Bite
Best Fried Food: Far Fix Trinity LLC - Fried Red Velvet Cake
Best New Flavor: Aunt Edmoe's Cookies - Fried Cookie Dough on a Stick
Best Dessert: Stubby's Cinnamon Roll - Cinnamon Roll with "The Works"

2011 Winners

Best Breakfast Food

1st: Stubby’s Cinnamon Rolls’ Big Stone Breakfast Sandwich
2nd: Yoakum Packing Company’s Bacon Blast
3rd: Texas Sized Pizza by the Slice’s grilled breakfast burrito

Best Taco/Burrito

1st: Freebirds World Burrito’s carnitas burrito
2nd: Tad’s Bodacious Burrito’s garlic chicken burrito
3rd: Texas Pride Grill’s fajita taco

Best Seafood

1st: Berryhill Baja Grill’s crispy shrimp taco
2nd: Sudie’s Catfish House’s duo of fried shrimp and oysters

Best Baked Potato

1st: Harlon’s Bar-B-Que’s super baked potato
2nd: Ranch House Pork Barn’s pulled pork super potato
3rd: Crown Cinnamon Rolls’ Just-Do-It Baked Potato

Best Burger

1st: Holmes Smokehouse’s angus, bacon, cheese mushroom burger
2nd: Paradise Burger’s ½ lb bacon cheeseburger
3rd: Texas Sized Pizza by the Slice’s cheesy burger bites

Best Food on a Stick

1st: Granny’s Cheesecake & More’s chocolate covered bananas and strawberries
2nd: Ranch House Burger Barn’s jalapeno & cheese sausage on a stick
3rd: Burton Sausage’s Rodeo K-bob

Best BBQ

1st: Big Bubba’s Bad BBQ’s pork spare ribs (RCS Carnival Midway)
2nd: Ranch House Pork Barn’s pulled pork bbq sandwich
3rd: Ranch House Burger Barn’s bar-b-que pork ribs

Best Fried Food

1st: Sweet Cheeks’ deep fried moon pie (RCS Carnival Midway)
2nd: Bear Mountain Bison’s Buffalo chips with The Works
3rd: Texas Sized Pizza by the Slice’s Tornado Potato Fries smothered and covered

Favorite Food

1st: Granny’s Cheesecake & More’s chocolate dipped cheesecake
2nd: Sill’s Funnel Cake Hause’s funnel cake
3rd: Saltgrass Steakhouse’s ribs and chicken platter

Most Creative

1st: Sills Funnel Cake Hause’s fried Snickers
2nd: Texas Sized Pizza by the Slice’s Juicy Lucy Cheeseburger
3rd: Bum’s Blue Ribbon Grill’s pulled pork sundae

Best Dessert

1st: Sills Funnel Cake Hause’s banana split funnel cake
2nd: Stubby’s Cinnamon Rolls’ cinnamon roll with “The Works”
3rd: Cobbler Café’s pecan cobbler with soft serve vanilla ice cream

Best New Flavor

1st: Zac Brown’s Southern Ground Grub chicken, sausage and shrimp jambalaya
2nd: Crown Cinnamon Rolls’ Lava Flow Smoothie
3rd: Paradise Burger’s fried brownie bites

Best Gourmet

1st: DGZ Chocolates & Fudge’s Toffarazzi (toffee)
2nd: The Caramel Candy Co.’s pecan caramel
3rd: Kettle Korn of Texas’s ribeye sandwich

2010 Winners