Shane McBride was mad. His finger waved and his pace quickened as he marched toward me. “That was some bullshit!” he exclaimed as soon as he was able to confirm my identity. It was Big Apple Barbecue week in 2015, and most everyone who came up to introduce themselves as I was eating barbecue on New York’s Madison Avenue was happy to see me. Not McBride. As our president is wont to do, I had angered McBride with a tweet. New York media outlet the Gothamist visited his new barbecue joint Pig Beach on opening day and bluntly declared it “the worst new BBQ place in NYC.” A photo included in the article of what looked like ribs was even more damning. Assuming that this was a clear case of…View Original PostThe post Surviving Pig Beach appeared first on Texas Monthly.