The Dixie Chicken

10/10/2026

BTHO Missouri! 👍🏈 WHOOP!

⏰ Today at 11 AM CT
📍 Memorial Stadium/Faurot Field • Columbia, Missouri

Go Aggies! Let’s bring home the WIN! 👍

10/09/2026

Thank you to the Texas Historical Commission for the wonderful mention!

With football season in full swing, it’s time to make a run for the Texas Brazos Trail region’s largest college cities—Waco and College Station—featured in the latest issue of our Medallion magazine. Both cities boast a bounty of Texas Treasure Business Award recipients, including legendary places to gather before and after the game.

One of the most famous is College Station’s The Dixie Chicken, where you can play dominoes on a table with decades’ worth of carved initials while keeping an eye on Sneaky the Snake. In Waco, you can experience more than a century of tradition at Casa De Castillo —you’ll always score here with tasty family recipes and genuine hospitality.

Read the latest issue of The Medallion, the THC's quarterly magazine, and sign up for a free subscription: https://thc.texas.gov/medallion

10/09/2026

Lonestar Proud … thank you for the shout out! 👍🏻

If you went to Texas A&M, you have sat at a table with somebody else's initials cut into it.

The Dixie Chicken sits across from campus in Northgate, and the reason it looks the way it looks is a record album. Don Anz ran a record store over in Bryan. Don Ganter was in real estate. The two of them opened up Jerry Jeff Walker's "Viva Terlingua," and inside the gatefold was a photograph of the beat-up b**r joint in Luckenbach where that record had been cut: weathered wood, old b**r signs, dusty deer heads. Anz remembered what they said looking at it. "We both said, 'Let's do something like this.'"

So they did. They each borrowed a few thousand dollars, took over an old campus pool hall called the Aggie Den, and finished the inside in reclaimed barn wood until it looked like the picture in the sleeve. The doors opened on the fifteenth of June, 1974. The name came off a different record altogether, the 1973 Little Feat song "Dixie Chicken."

Then a couple of generations of Aggies went to work on the place. The wooden tables got carved on by customers until the carving was part of the furniture. There are pool tables and dominoes and photographs of the Bonfire on the wall. The alley alongside has bottle caps worked down into the ground from all those years of longnecks. There is a live rattlesnake on the premises with a herpetologist on the payroll to look after it. Robert Earl Keen, class of '78, played there. So did Lyle Lovett, class of '79.

Don Ganter died in 2004, and his daughters Katy Jackson and Jennifer Ganter took it over. Jennifer has said plainly what that was like: "It was a battle after he died. One, we were young. Two, we were women. And three, we were in the bar industry." They kept it. In June of 2024 the Dixie Chicken turned fifty, which is a long run for a building that started out as two men trying to copy a photograph they found inside a record sleeve.

10/09/2026

Got your Ring Weekend plans figured out? We do. 👍🍻

Aggie Gold, cold pitchers, T-fries, and good company. Sounds like a weekend well spent!

Whether you’re getting your ring or celebrating someone who is, make the Dixie Chicken part of your Ring Weekend tradition.

Here’s to 90 hours, a lifetime of memories, and a whole lot of Aggie Gold! 👍🏼

&M

10/08/2026

IT’S AGGIE RING DAY! WHOOP! 👍

Congratulations to all the Aggies earning their Aggie Rings today and tomorrow! What an incredible milestone and a tradition worth celebrating!

Stop by the legendary Dixie Chicken and raise a pitcher to this unforgettable day! 🍻
GOOD NEWS! Our iconic Dixie Chicken pitchers are BACK IN STOCK! Grab yours and make some Aggie memories! LINK IN BIO!

Gig ’em, Ags! 👍

10/08/2026

Thank you Southern Living for the SHOUTOUT!

Thanks Southern Living for another great piece on BCS. Midnight Yell is such a unique tradition and one that everyone should experience... even our non-Aggie friends!

Love that they were able to connect with Nelson Ingram '13, a former yell leader and founder of College Station's newest attraction Unreined Wh***ey and also highlighted some of our faves The Dixie Chicken, C&J Barbeque SWP Location, Harry's Northgate, Stella Southern Cafe, George Bush Presidential Library and Museum and others! 👍

Read the story at https://www.southernliving.com/texas-a-and-m-football-weekend-friday-night-12073386

10/03/2026

BTHO ARKANSAS! WHOOP! 👍🏼

📅 TODAY — Saturday, October 3
⏰ 6:00 PM CT
📍 Kyle Field | College Station, Texas
📺 ESPN2

HOME GAME. KYLE FIELD. LET’S GO AGGIES!

BTHO ARKANSAS! WHOOP! 🏈

10/01/2026

Some things just feel like home🍻

09/29/2026

EVERYONE LOVES A THEME!
This week, Aggie Football is celebrating 150 YEARS of Texas A&M University—and CAMO is the theme! 👍🏼

So, of course, we’ve got you covered! Shop the Dixie Chicken CAMO Collection and add a little Northgate tradition to your GAME DAY attire!

Dixie Chicken + CAMO + Aggie Football = GAME DAY READY!
🛍️ SHOP NOW

https://bottlecapalleytrading.com/search?options%5Bprefix%5D=last&q=camo

Now let’s BTHO ARKANSAS! 👍🏼🏈

09/26/2026

🏈 BTHO LSU! 🏈

The Fightin’ Texas Aggies are headed into Death Valley tonight! 👍🏻

Texas A&M vs. LSU
📍 Tiger Stadium | Baton Rouge, Louisiana
⏰ Kickoff: 6:30 PM CT
📺 ABC

Whether you’re making the trip to Baton Rouge or cheering from Aggieland, there’s no better place to get game-day ready than the Dixie Chicken!

Cold b**r. Dominoes on the tables. And plenty of Aggie Spirit.

BTHO LSU! WHOOP! 👍🏻