2 Best Restaurants in Terlingua, West Texas and the Panhandle

For some of the tastiest breakfast fare close to the park, try this funky down-home spot in Terlingua ghost town, which makes everything from scratch, including the flour tortillas used for hearty breakfast burritos. The coffee is the best in town, and the desserts are homemade. At lunch, consider the house-made meat loaf sandwich.

This convivial restaurant-saloon with live-music is ground zero for all the ghosts and other characters of Terlingua. The menu includes plenty of local flavor, such as Terlingua chili and chicken-fried wild boar with Terlingua gold beer gravy. The Starlight is next door to the Terlingua Trading Post, where locals, some of whom look like prospectors from the Old West, sit on the shaded porch, tell stories, drink beer, and play one of the house guitars lying around.