Rancher's Grill also offers specials, and I used this opportunity to try the Sirloin Burger with mushrooms. I think the best comparison to this burger is the steakburger at Great American Land & Cattle Company. The sirloin patty at Rancher's Grill had more meat, but I thought the one at Great American had a better flavor, particularly with respect to not being as greasy. The mushrooms at Rancher's Grill were good, but I enjoyed the green chiles that Great American uses on request a lot more. The only advantage Rancher's Grill had, and this is an important one, is that it was cooked properly while the Great American burger was too red for the instructions I gave. In spite of being undercooked, though, the Great American burger had a better flavor and was not as greasy. I am not inclined to enjoy the large slabs of meat served at Rancher's Grill as much as what I would consider normal sized burgers, so this is my own personal prejudice. The Rancher's Grill burger was good, but I did not think it was great.

I do not know why I got so much meat with the burger and so little with the chicken fried chicken, so at this point I dod not know if the restaurant generally serves generous portions of food or not. I think K-Bob's usually served average sized steaks, trying to keep the prices down.

The Cole Slaw that came as a side was excellent-- the slaw tasted fresh and the cream was one of the few I have tried that accented the flavor rather than overwhelmed it.

The French Fries were greasy and not as good as at other restaurants, but I still enjoyed them enough to eat most of them.

Rancher's Grill has a salad bar that looks exactly the same as the totally uninteresting one I used to frequent at K-Bob's.

Based on the prices of the steaks I believe they cannot be using a very high grade of meat, thus I suspect it still relies mostly on the same tenderizer that K-Bob's seemed to use so liberally. I believe Rancher's Grill is perfectly adequate, though, when you are not looking for a high end steak house. In any case it is much better than the Golden Corral located a short distance up Mesa Street.

While I was never very impressed with the K-Bob's in El Paso, Rancher's Grill seems to have at least returned to the quality that was exhibited by its predecesor in the early days when it only operated in Clovis, NM and a few other outposts. It is still a cheap steak house, but the chicken fried chicken, and I'm pretty sure a few other items, would be worth trying. The sirloin burger was not my "cup of tea" but I am sure some who are bigger meat eaters would enjoy it.