Trabuco Oaks Steakhouse of Trabuco Canyon, California Restaurant Home Page

HOME OF
THE TWO-POUND
COWBOY STEAK!
Our two-pound Cowboy steak is big enough to make you a legend in your own time. We cook it tender and juicy, just like all our steaks. If you can eat all of this in one sitting, you're probably not a quiche eater.

20782 Trabuco Oaks Road,
Trabuco Canyon, California 92678
949-586-0722

Reservations Recommended...especially on weekends!!!
Private Parties on Request.

In 1982, the Southern California Restaurant Writers named The Trabuco Oaks Steak House "A Legend In Its Own Time." It was an exhilarating honor, but also a humbling one. After all, being a legend in your own time is a pretty heavy responsibility. So we ask ourselves, what did we do to become a legend?

On June 28, 1968 Eleanor, Duke and Randy Sherod opened Trabuco Oaks as a snack bar serving campers from O'Neill Park and Trabuco Canyon residents. That worked out pretty well, so they decided to serve dinner as well. Now there are dinners and there are dinners. It was decided that ours would follow two rules: keep it simple, and do it right.

So we serve only USDA CHOICE corn-fed beef, the best available, aged just right and hand-trimmed to our exacting standards. Extra-thick top sirloins, T-bones and hand-cut filets broiled over real mesquite charcoal. No gas, no electricity, no folderol. Just the best darn steaks you ever tasted. We hand-cut our own french fries, bake our own beans, make our own salad dressing and even cook up our own spaghetti sauce from an old family recipe.

Great food is only the start of the Trabuco Oaks legend. Our cooking has attracted a growing stream of celebrities including President Nixon, David Hartman, Kelly Lange, General Bill & Willa Dean Lyon, Richard J. O'Neill, Vic Braden, along with his tennis college staff and pupils, also many LA Rams, USC & Santa Margarita Catholic High School football stars including Vince Ferragamo, Carson Palmer and Pete Beathard.

To keep too much celebrity from going to our heads, we have a strict no-tie policy. You can see the results of that policy strung from our rafters, a constant reminder not to take ourselves too seriously. Will being an official legend change us? It hasn't so far, and we're determined that it never will. After all, what's done most to make us a legend is doing our darnedest to please you. That's one thing we do take seriously. And one thing we'll never change.

But don't take our word for it. Click for an article from the Orange County Register.

Wear a tie at your own risk!