Steak House Cafe

Excellent food at an affordable price. Great customer service. Blessings for 2026.

Excellent lunch. Heeded the warning of large portions, shared a plate of steak fries and added an extra salad bar for a great lunch! Saving this in the map, will return the next time I drive through this part of NM.

Quick details - food is really tasty. The streak fingers are amazing. Price is fair for the portions they give which are generous. Full Review - So the restaurant is overall wonderful. Here is a break down of the major things I look at. Food - I had a steak fingers meal full size. I chose mashed potatoes as my side. The steak fingers are amazing. They take a sirloin I think and cut it into strips and then a batter like chicken fried steak and cook it. It was tender with a great batter seasoned flavor. They give a side of white country gravy with pepper with it as well. The salad bar was decent but stocked with things I personally didn't prefer but it was fresh. Only nitpick is the ranch was watery a bit. Cleanliness - place was spotless and in good repair. Staff - Only one person runs

It was a long day... We drove in from somewhere up North coming down on the mountain roads and hitting the flat lands of Southeast New Mexico. The wind was heavy and air was cold... That was when trouble started. Somewhere near Roswell on a dusty desert highway, our trusty engine began having problems. As we limped into Tatum, the engine finally had enough. We were cold, hungry, and beaten down by the road and misfortune. There were no modern conviences and even the new-fangled cell phones weren't getting a signal. We walked a quarter mile to a pay phone at the main intersection in town and called several towing companies across the border in Texas. To no avail, we were stranded... Finally, we found a tow driver who was willing to break multiple laws and would come and pick us up

Great little mom and pops place. This little hole in the wall sits in the middle of this blink and you'll miss it town. We had planned on eating somewhere else but that place had closed down and we saw this old building sitting by itself and glad we ate here. Service was nice and the food was good. Biscuits was fluffy and while I had better gravy, the gravy and biscuit was still good. If you get in lost Tatum, stop by this place!