Smokehouse Burger Texas Roadhouse

Smokehouse burger Texas Roadhouse is the BBQ-and-bacon build on the burger section: a hand-pattied beef burger with smoky barbecue sauce, bacon and melted cheese, served with a side. Expect roughly $12 to $16 depending on your location.

What the Smokehouse Burger actually is

The Smokehouse Burger is Texas Roadhouse’s barbecue-styled burger: a fresh, hand-pattied beef burger cooked on the same grill as the steaks, then finished with barbecue sauce, bacon and cheese on a toasted bun. It is a burger, not a steak plate, so it lands in the cheapest third of the entree menu.

Two things separate it from a generic bacon cheeseburger. The patties are formed in-house rather than pre-pressed, which is why the kitchen asks for a temperature the way it does with a sirloin. And the barbecue sauce is the same sweet, smoky house sauce used on the ribs, so if you know whether you like that sauce, you know whether you will like this burger.

The toppings list is the part people get wrong online. Some locations build it with jack cheese, some with cheddar, a few add onions, and it is not on every store’s burger lineup. Ask your server to read you the current build rather than trusting a photo from somewhere else.

Smokehouse Burger spec table

Here is the item field by field. Where a row says the figure varies, that is deliberate: burger builds and pricing are set regionally and there is no single verified national listing for this item.

Smokehouse Burger price

Texas Roadhouse burgers generally run $12 to $16, and the Smokehouse sits in the middle to upper part of that band because of the bacon and cheese. We are not publishing an exact figure for it, because we have no verified national listing and a made-up number helps nobody.

Regional swing is real. City locations and high-cost states routinely print prices 10 to 15 percent above rural ones, so the same burger can be $12.99 in one state and past $15 in another. To confirm before you go, pull your location’s menu on the Texas Roadhouse website or app, which prices by store. Delivery apps work too, but they are usually marked up above dine-in.

Calories and nutrition

Texas Roadhouse does not publish a calorie count for the Smokehouse Burger nationally, so the honest answer is to read the number printed beside it on your in-store menu, which chain restaurants are required to display in most of the country.

What you can reason about: a half-pound burger with bacon, cheese and sweet barbecue sauce is one of the heavier plates in the section, and steak fries add several hundred more. If you are watching the total, the side is the bigger lever than the burger. Swapping fries for green beans or applesauce cuts more than any topping change will. The free rolls run around 230 calories each before butter, and they are unlimited, which is where most tables quietly overshoot.

How to order it well

Give a temperature. Because the patty is hand-formed and grilled to order, a burger ordered medium comes out noticeably juicier than one the kitchen defaults to. Medium or medium-well is the sweet spot for most people; well-done on a half-pound patty with sweet sauce tends to go dry.

Sauce on the side is the most useful modification. The house barbecue sauce is sweet, and asking for it on the side lets you dial the sweetness instead of getting a soaked bottom bun. If you want the smoke without the sugar, ask whether they can hold the sauce and keep the bacon.

For the side, steak fries are the default and they are fine, but the loaded baked potato makes the plate feel like a full dinner. Skip the appetizer unless you are sharing. Between unlimited rolls and a half-pound burger with fries, a Cactus Blossom on top is more food than most tables finish.

Is it worth it, and how it compares

Against the 6oz Hand-Cut Sirloin at about $16.99, the Smokehouse Burger is the value play only if you actually want a burger. The sirloin costs a few dollars more and includes two sides instead of one, so on pure food-per-dollar the steak often wins. Order the burger because you want barbecue and bacon, not because you are trying to save money.

Against the Pulled Pork Dinner at about $15.99, it is closer. Both lean on the same house barbecue flavor. The pulled pork wins if you want more meat and less bread; the burger wins for takeout, since pulled pork tends to go soggy in a box.

The real competition is the plain cheeseburger on the same section. The Smokehouse typically costs a dollar or two more for bacon and sauce. If you would have added bacon anyway, take the Smokehouse. If you like a clean beef-and-cheese burger, the upcharge buys you sweetness you did not ask for.

Availability: not every menu carries it

Texas Roadhouse regionalizes the burger section more than the steaks, and the Smokehouse Burger is not a guaranteed listing at every store. Some locations carry it year-round, some run it as a limited item, some never list it.

Before driving out for it, check your store’s menu page or call. If it is gone, the closest substitute is a cheeseburger with bacon added and barbecue sauce on the side, which most kitchens will do without complaint.

Honest limitations of this page

This is an independent guide, not the restaurant. We are not affiliated with Texas Roadhouse and we do not take orders or handle reservations.

For this item we have no verified national price, calorie count or topping list, and we have deliberately not invented one. Everything above is either a stated range with its reasoning shown or a pointer to where you can confirm it yourself. Treat the in-store menu, the official store-specific menu online and your server as the final word.

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