If you like bar hopping with a lot of Aggies, some really good country music, and enjoy hanging out with 30,000 rather inebriated A&M and other college students than College Station and the Texas A&M Chilifest is where you need to be next year. We tried to beat the Friday traffic out of Dallas with no luck (I don’t think you can ever beat the traffic out of Dallas) as we headed down to College Station for dinner at the Chicken Oil Company. Chicken Oil Company opened as a gas station and burger stop in 1977 and its truly unique atmosphere speaks for itself. It is known for its death burger, great chicken fried steak sandwiches on Texas toast, Texas toothpicks (battered onions & jalapenos), and Tijuana fries. We rate it a 3.5 out of 5 stars. After dinner we stopped by La Bodega for their watermelon martinis. It’s a tiny little taco bar but they had a live band and they’re within walking distance to our final watering holes at Northgate. Northgate is a strip of bars, restaurants, bookstores and is a Texas A&M tradition “where friends are as plentiful as beer, where dominoes and pool are considered a REAL sport, where classic country music never dies, and where carving your name in the tables and walls is expected." The first stop was the Dixie Chicken, which is where every Aggie goes to dunk their ring, play pool or dominoes, and have a good time. It is filled with down home people, has a great back porch, a very laid back atmosphere, and is a true Texas A&M staple. Dixie Chicken is “known to sell more beer per square foot than any other establishment in the world”.
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