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Joseph and Lucinda Flores took over Houston Barbecue Company in Houston’s Energy Corridor neighborhood in 2014. Joseph had close to twenty years of restaurant experience with the Pappas family, Olive Garden, Chili’s, and Buffalo Wild Wings. He’d never run a barbecue joint, but he still knew the pair of massive steel smokers in the pit room were special. “When we walked back there on the tour, I was like, ‘Wow. These are old school,'” Flores said. They were reportedly designed to replicate the pits at the original City Market in Luling. Kurt Craig of Luling City Market in Houston had been the previous owner of the joint, which first opened in 2003. Despite its equipment, my first visit in 2015 wasn’t memorable. A return trip a couple…View Original Post
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