Texas Roadhouse has locked in an October 19 opening date for its first-ever Ventura County location, bringing hand-cut steaks and fall-off-the-bone ribs to a site near the Camarillo Premium Outlets that has been years in the making. The restaurant will open at 650 E. Ventura Blvd., filling a gap that has sent county residents on long drives for a taste of the chain's made-from-scratch cooking.
According to WhatNow, the new restaurant will be run by managing partner Zully Vix and will serve a menu built around hand-cut steaks, chicken specialties, burgers, sandwiches, salads, dockside favorites, Texas-size combos, kids and ranger meals, made-from-scratch sides, fresh-baked bread, and desserts, along with beer, wine, cocktails, and margaritas. The chain was founded by Kent Taylor, who opened the first Texas Roadhouse in Clarksville, Indiana, in 1993 before it grew into the national steakhouse brand it is today, built around what the company describes as its mission of “legendary food, legendary service.”
Before the Camarillo store came together, Ventura County diners craving Texas Roadhouse had to drive tens of miles into the Inland Empire, to cities such as Rialto, Moreno Valley, Hesperia, or Corona, as FOX 11 Los Angeles has reported, since the chain previously lacked any presence along the coastal corridor. That absence is part of what makes the new Camarillo build notable: it marks the company's first restaurant anywhere in the county.
A Multi-Year Path to Opening Day
The project has been in motion since at least mid-2024, when the company completed its city applications with an initial target of opening by summer 2025, according to the Camarillo Acorn. Construction timelines pushed that launch back more than a year, with the Conejo Valley Guide reporting the restaurant is now set to open on October 19, 2026 — over a year past the original goal.
The site sits adjacent to the Promenade section of the Camarillo Premium Outlets, near other commercial neighbors including Finney's Crafthouse and Home2 Suites by Hilton, per the same outlet's reporting on the retail corridor off Highway 101. That stretch has become one of Camarillo's major commercial hubs, and the steakhouse's arrival fits into a broader wave of dining additions the city has welcomed in recent years.
City Leaders Tout Dining Growth
Camarillo Mayor Kevin Kildee name-checked Texas Roadhouse in his October 2025 State of the City address, grouping it with other new arrivals like Chick-fil-A, McKenna Coffee, 999 Pizza, and House of Bamboo Tiki Lounge as part of the city's expanding commercial dining scene, the Camarillo Acorn reported. Local officials have framed additions like these as positive drivers of municipal tax revenue and neighborhood vitality.
The opening also means new local jobs. August job postings for the Camarillo location advertised hourly pay ranging from $16.90 to $30.00 for servers, $16.90 to $19.00 for prep cooks, and $16.90 to $18.00 for hosts, bussers, and dishwashers, while restaurant managers could earn between $70,304 and $90,000 annually, according to listings reviewed by ZipRecruiter.
Corporate Momentum Behind the Local Build
The Camarillo restaurant opens backed by a parent company on a national growth tear. Texas Roadhouse Inc. had grown to 832 total open locations as of June 30, 2026 — including 732 company-operated and 100 franchised stores — up from 797 units a year earlier, per Pulse 2.0's review of the company's expansion. Headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, the chain reported $5.88 billion in total revenue for fiscal year 2025, a 9.4% jump over the prior year, and pulled in $1.68 billion in revenue in the second quarter of 2026 alone, per the company's own investor disclosures.
New locations like Camarillo's tend to ramp up quickly. Corporate results for the second quarter of 2026 showed restaurants open less than six months averaged $180,822 in weekly sales — about 98% of the $183,982 weekly average posted by mature, comparable stores, the same corporate filings show. Off-premise orders remain a steady piece of that business too, with company stores averaging $25,369 per week in carryout sales, representing 14.3% of total restaurant sales, according to TradingView's review of the company's Q2 filings.
The chain has also built sustainability measures into its standard restaurant design. Texas Roadhouse recycles used kitchen fryer oil into biofuel at most of its locations and equips kitchens with high-efficiency LED lighting and energy-reducing equipment, according to the company's own corporate disclosures — practices expected to carry over to the new Camarillo build once its doors open next month.
