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On the Road with Daniel Vaughn: Tejas Chocolate Craftory—Video
Scott Moore has always made use of barbecue pits at the Tejas Chocolate Craftory, but he wasn’t smoking meat in the beginning. Tejas Chocolate was founded in 2011 as one of Texas’s only bean-to-bark...
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Berliner Weisse Beer: Barbecue’s Best Buddy
I have a confession: I don’t usually like beer with barbecue. Although having a beer while cooking barbecue is one of life’s great pleasures, when I’m chowing down on smoked meats I’d much sooner reach...
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On the Road with Daniel Vaughn: Gatlin’s BBQ — Video
Mary and Greg Gatlin, the mother-son team behind Gatlin’s BBQ, could very well be responsible for Houston’s barbecue renaissance. When they opened Gatlin’s in 2011, the joint quickly gained a cult-like...
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BBQ News: 07/28 – 08/10
Tickets are now on sale for the Texas Monthly BBQ Festival! Texas BBQ Treasure Hunt is keeping track of all the Top 50 BBQ closures for vacations this summer. Here’s a link to the current list which...
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Recipe: Thin Barbecue Sauce
This is not a recipe for a sweet barbecue sauce. If you’re like me and are hankering for more acidic flavors in barbecue, this is the sauce for you. It’s meant to sink into the meat, not coat it—and,...
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Barbecue on Acid
Barbecue has a sweet tooth. Sugar is the go-to enhancer in rubs, barbecue sauces, and injections, most of which become a candy coating that masks the flavor of the defenseless meat beneath. It’s an...
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Smoked Ham at Prine’s Barbecue
Allen Prine isn’t sure when they first started serving ham at Prine’s Barbecue in Wichita Falls, but he estimates it was soon after his grandfather opened the place in 1925. They’ve gone through...
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Behind the Scenes at the “World’s Largest Free Barbecue”
The beginning of August means one in the Panhandle: it’s time for the XIT Rodeo and Reunion. The annual event in Dalhart—held on the first weekend in August—celebrated its eighty-first year earlier...
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BBQ News: 08/11 – 08/24
Firefighters in England quickly extinguished a hay fire in a pig barn, saving two sows and their eighteen piglets. To thank the firefighters, six months later the farmer provided them with sausages...
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Fire at Franklin Barbecue
Texans awoke Saturday morning bracing for Hurricane Harvey reports from South Texas. We sure got plenty of those, but nobody expected to see Franklin Barbecue in flames. The Austin barbecue icon will...
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Aaron Franklin: “We Will Rebuild”
“We will rebuild,” Aaron Franklin said early Saturday afternoon. He sounded surprisingly upbeat given the damage he had just surveyed inside the pit room at Franklin Barbecue, which caught fire...
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LeRoy & Lewis Barbecue
In barbecue rich Austin, so many great joints have opened in the past half-decade that it’s hard for a new spot to make a blip. The most glaring example was witnessed at the nearly empty picnic tables...
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Lyle Bento’s Hawaiian BBQ Bathtub
Lyle Bento scooped shovelfuls of warm sand from a bathtub behind his restaurant. The claw foot tub was draped with strung-together grass skirts, signifying its new use as an imu—a Hawaiian barbecue pit...
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The Origin Story Behind Panhandle Onion Rings
Ribs and onion rings from David’s Barbecue.Daniel Vaughn Ribs and rings in the Texas Panhandle are as ubiquitous as brisket and butcher paper in Central Texas. I look forward to battered onion rings...
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BBQ News: 08/25 – 09/14
In their largest deployment ever, Operation BBQ Relief spent 11 days in Texas cooking 371,760 hot barbecue meals for Hurricane Harvey victims and first responders. The Houston Chronicle shared a piece...
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Treif No More at Franklin Barbecue
The world’s most famous brisket cook doesn’t cook much brisket anymore. Aaron Franklin—who created one of the most recognizable names in barbecue from resuscitated trailer and a reclaimed smoker—now...
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Tyson Cole Dishes on Loro, His Upcoming Asian Smokehouse in Austin
Fresh, healthy, bright, and acidic: That’s how Austin-based chef Tyson Cole describes his upcoming restaurant, Loro. The James Beard award winning chef plans to blend the signature flavors of his...
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Steak and Barbecue at Killen’s STQ
Ronnie Killen knows steak, and he knows barbecue. That much is obvious from the praise heaped upon Killen’s Steakhouse and Killen’s Barbecue, both in Pearland just south of Houston. Last year he...
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After The Fire: A Look Inside Franklin Barbecue
Franklin Barbecue’s pit room was destroyed by fire on August 26, a Saturday morning. The vaunted barbecue joint—where hundreds of hungry patrons typically queue on a daily basis—has been closed since....
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BBQ News: 09/15 – 09/28
Texas barbecue myths abound. Obsessive Compulsive Barbecue breaks many of them down in a two parts series that attempts to set the record straight. Some creativity being shown at the Houston BBQ...
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