Regular customers claim that Joe Allen's serves the best steaks and barbecue in town, maybe in West Texas. Harold's is a typical neighborhood barbecue joint in a nondescript cinder-block building.
Prices are inexpensive.
The truck stop, just west of Abilene, is open 24 hours a day. Breakfast is served all day. There's a Mexican food buffet on Mondays. People come from miles around for the homemade soups and for the barbecued ribs and chicken-fried steak. Prices are inexpensive.