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Pastrami Pork Ribs at Wheelhouse
Underdressed in my standard attire of jeans and a barbecue t-shirt, I dropped my car with the (mandatory/complimentary) valet at the new Dallas Design District restaurant, Wheelhouse, and found a seat...
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– George H W Bush has good taste when ordering barbecue during his recent hospital stay. He called Houston’s Roegels Barbecue Co. – The Houston Chronicle examined the origins of the offset brick smoker...
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Full Fat Beef Ribs at Knife
You don’t have to look far to find a beef short rib on a barbecue joint menu, and chef John Tesar* has eaten many of them. [Full disclosure: Tesar and I share a literary agent, I’m mentioned in his new...
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Guess Family Barbecue
Reid Guess describes his ‘cue as regular old barbecue. “The kind Jesus ate,” he jokes. The motto is painted right there on the side of the little red trailer parked beside Bare Arms Brewing just off...
View ArticleBBQ News: 04/28 – 05/04
– Charlie’s BBQ in Houston was a total loss in an early morning fire: AERIAL VIEWS: Fire at Charlie’s BBQ in N. Harris County https://t.co/n5nHonACdx #KHOU #HouNews pic.twitter.com/c1wHqFuAZ8 — KHOU 11...
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The American Egg Roll at Bolivar St. BBQ
Sanger is hoping for a barbecue joint that sticks. We praised Texas Smoke BBQ Co. in 2014, but it closed a year later. Late last year, Brian Davis opened Bolivar St. BBQ in the same building, and he...
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Hot Luck Preview
Aaron Franklin’s Hot Luck festival will debut in Austin in a couple weeks. Despite Franklin’s involvement, this isn’t strictly a barbecue festival, but smoked meat fans needn’t worry. There are still...
View ArticleBBQ News: 05/05 – 05/11
– We love this slo-mo brisket drop: Here’s a totally unoriginal, slow-mo video of a brisket jiggling. It was too good not to post?. #txbbq #lubbock #wolfforth #texasbbq #bbq #brisket #cincodemayo A...
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Argyle, Texas: BBQ Destination
With two recently opened barbecue joints north of Fort Worth, the tiny town of Argyle has turned into a barbecue destination. Bumbershoot Barbecue and 407 BBQ couldn’t be more different. The former is...
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Smoked Bologna at Gatlin’s BBQ
Gatlin’s BBQ in Houston already had a great pitmaster in owner Greg Gatlin, but last year they hired a chef. Thanks to the influence of Michelle Wallace, who was most recently at Houston’s, you’ll find...
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2017 Top 50 BBQ Map
You’ve got the list, now let’s get you there! Here are Texas Monthly‘s top 50 barbecue joints (plus honorable mentions), mapped. We’ve got your next road trip pitstops covered.View Original PostThe...
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The TM General Store Is Open!
Inspired by the highly anticipated “50 Best BBQ Joints” list of 2017, the specialty items featured in the BBQ Collection at the TM General Store have been curated by our editors with the hope that you...
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How the Barbecue List Gets Made
Every four or five or six years, depending on how hungry we are, this magazine embarks on a special public service: compiling a list of the fifty best barbecue joints in Texas. To accomplish this...
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Link to the Past
Beaumont’s Pear Orchard neighborhood was a lively place in the fifties. The traditionally African American part of town was home to workers from nearby refineries, and its churches and barbershops...
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Tyler Two-Step
Stanley’s Famous Pit Bar-B-Q.Photograph by Mike Hall Not long ago, I found myself in Tyler, eating a lot of barbecue. I intended to visit the joints assigned to me for this year’s list and head home....
View ArticleBBQ News: 05/12 – 05/25
– We had a little barbecue joint list come out this week: The 2017 Top 50 BBQ Joint list. – Three new names have been added to the Barbecue Hall of Fame. – The Houston Chronicle had some thoughts about...
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Nobody Knows the Pork Ribs We’ve Seen
Sure, getting paid to chow down at the fifty best barbecue joints in Texas sounds like fun. And, for the most part, it is. But to find those exemplary joints, our team had to eat a lot of barbecue that...
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Parlez-Vous BBQ?
In September 2014, when Thomas Abramowicz got the call that his smoker had arrived at the French port of Le Havre, he was ready. It had been more than a year since the Paris native had first decided to...
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Barbecue Honorable Mentions
EAT YOUR VEGGIES Fried okra at 18th & Vine in Dallas, meaty stuffed baked potatoes at Southern Q in Houston, potato salad at King’s Highway Brew & Q in San Antonio, smoked corn on the cob at...
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Austin BBQ Guide
Austin has the greatest concentration of truly excellent barbecue of any city in the world. The 78702 zip code alone features enough stellar barbecue—Franklin Barbecue, la Barbecue, Micklethwait Craft...
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