Beef Tips Texas Roadhouse

Beef tips Texas Roadhouse is a $17.49 entree of sirloin cuts simmered with mushrooms, onions and brown gravy, served over seasoned rice with two included sides and unlimited rolls. It is one of the few Roadhouse steak items not cooked to a doneness you choose.

What beef tips actually are (full spec)

Beef tips are bite-size pieces of sirloin cooked down with sliced mushrooms and onions in a brown gravy, then ladled over seasoned rice. They are not a separate cut of beef; “tips” refers to the size of the pieces, not a butcher’s term.

That matters when you order. A sirloin steak is a single hand-cut portion seared to your temperature; beef tips are the same muscle broken into chunks and finished in liquid, which is why the kitchen never asks how you want it cooked. The gravy is the point of the dish. If you dislike heavy brown sauces, this is the wrong order.

Beef tips price and portion

Beef tips are listed at $17.49 on the location menus we checked in July 2026. There is only one size, so the price does not move with ounces the way hand-cut steaks do. Expect roughly $15.50 to $20 depending on your market.

High-cost metro and travel-corridor stores sit at the top of that band; suburban Midwest and Southeast stores sit at the bottom. To confirm, pull up your specific store in the Texas Roadhouse app rather than trusting a national menu image.

Calories and nutrition

The verified listing we used for beef tips does not include a calorie count, so we are not publishing a number. Chains post calories at the point of sale, so the figure will be printed beside the item on your in-store menu and in the app.

What you can reason about honestly: this is a sirloin dish, not a fried one, but the gravy and the rice base add up, and the two included sides plus rolls with cinnamon butter usually contribute more calories than the entree itself. For comparison inside the same menu, a 6oz Hand-Cut Sirloin lists at 250 calories and Herb Crusted Chicken at 260, while chopped-steak style plates with gravy run far higher. Beef tips sit between those extremes.

If you are tracking closely, ask for the gravy portioned lightly and skip the butter on the rolls. Sodium is the number most people underestimate on any gravy-based plate.

What it comes with: rice, two sides, rolls

Beef tips arrive over seasoned rice and include two sides of your choice, the same as other Roadhouse dinner entrees. Fresh-baked rolls with cinnamon butter come free and unlimited for dine-in guests and are refilled on request.

Because the rice already comes under the beef, choosing a second starch makes the plate heavy. Sides that hold up better next to a gravy dish:

• Green beans or steamed vegetables, which cut the richness.
• House salad with dressing on the side; it counts as one of your two.
• Mashed potatoes only if you actively want more gravy, since they get sauced too.

Extra sides beyond the included two are typically $2.99 each.

How to order beef tips well

Ask for extra gravy on the side, request the mushrooms and onions heavy or held, and pick one vegetable side instead of two starches. Since there is no doneness choice, your only real levers are sauce volume, the aromatics, and what sits beside it.

A few specifics that repeat across Roadhouse locations:

• Onions or mushrooms held. Both are cooked into the pan mixture at many stores, so “no mushrooms” may mean picked out rather than never added. Say it clearly when you order and confirm with the server.
• Gravy on the side. Usually accommodated. Useful if you want the rice to stay dry or you are taking half home.
• Swap the rice. Some locations will substitute mashed potatoes or a vegetable as the base; others will not. It is store-level discretion, so ask rather than assume.

Beef tips vs sirloin vs steak kabob

Beef tips at $17.49 sit between the 6oz Hand-Cut Sirloin at $16.99 and the Steak Kabob at $19.99. All three use sirloin. The difference is how it is cut, cooked and sauced, which changes the eating experience more than the price does.

Order the sirloin if you want a clean steak you control the temperature on. Order the kabob if you want char and vegetables. Order beef tips if you want a comfort-food plate where the gravy and rice do as much work as the beef.

Is it worth $17.49?

Beef tips are good value if you eat gravy-forward comfort food and want a filling plate with two sides and free rolls. They are poor value if you came for a seared steak, because braising in gravy removes the crust and the doneness control that Roadhouse is known for.

Put plainly: fifty cents more than a 6oz sirloin buys you more total food and less steak character. Two dollars less than a kabob buys you more sauce and less char. It is a preference question, not a value question.

Availability, lunch and to-go

Beef tips appear on the regular dinner menu at most locations and are generally available whenever the restaurant is open. They are not a standard Early Dine item at every store, and lunch-menu inclusion varies.

Two things worth confirming with your store: whether beef tips are discounted during Early Dine hours, and whether a smaller lunch portion exists locally. Both are market-dependent, so call ahead or check the store’s page in the app.

For takeout, this dish travels better than a grilled steak because there is no crust to go soggy and no temperature to overshoot. Ask for the gravy separate if the drive home is longer than fifteen minutes. Rolls are unlimited dine-in only; to-go orders include a fixed count.

Where this page can be wrong

This is an independent guide, not Texas Roadhouse. We do not set prices, run promotions, or receive menu updates from the company, and nothing here is an official statement.

Three limits apply. First, $17.49 is a verified listing price from a location menu, not a national fixed price. Second, we deliberately publish no calorie figure for beef tips, because the listing we verified did not carry one and inventing a number would be worse than omitting it. Third, substitutions, lunch portions and Early Dine eligibility are decided store by store. Anywhere this page says something varies, check your store’s page in the Texas Roadhouse app.

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