LaVaca BBQ in Port Lavaca serves five smoked meats, two house-made sausages, six sides, and three desserts every day they’re open. On Saturdays they add beef ribs, and Sunday is for pit-smoked barbacoa, but ask Lupe Nevarez about the joint’s specialty, and the answer is surprising: smoked tamales. They’re almost hidden in the bottom corner of the massive menu board that hung behind Nevarez as he worked the cutting block during a recent Friday lunch. I assumed they were steamed tamales stuffed with chopped barbecue until I watched Nevarez unwrap the glistening butcher paper pouch that surrounded his thoroughly unique take on tamales. It’s not just that Nevarez, a native of nearby Palacios, thinks he serves a damn fine tamale (he does). He said the…View Original PostThe post LaVaca BBQ’s Smoked Tamales Are a Unique Tex-Mex Barbecue Specialty appeared first on Texas Monthly.