Armando “Mando” Vera is the king of barbacoa in Texas’s Lower Rio Grande Valley. He runs Vera’s Backyard Bar-B-Que in Brownsville, which is the only restaurant in Texas cooking barbacoa in the ground with wood. So when he recommended a visit to another barbacoa operation in the area, I was compelled to change my plans the following day to try T-Ghost BBQ in Weslaco. Business has been good for Joshua and Myra Guerrero since they moved their T-Ghost BBQ trailer to its current spot in mid-2019, especially on barbacoa Sundays. It took a leap of faith from the couple to get to this point. “I just woke up one night, and I told my wife, ‘I think I’m going to quit my job and just…View Original Post
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