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How Franklin Barbecue Came Back After the Fire
Franklin Barbecue has been a muse to Austin-based photographer Wyatt McSpadden since it opened in late 2009. He has followed the evolution of the barbecue joint through the triumph of its growth and...
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Buck’s Barbeque Co. Serves Up “Goofy-Cue” Alongside Tasty Classics
In August 2017 Jim Buchanan was almost ready to start serving his bacon-wrapped meatloaf and brisket debris po’boys at White Oak Biergarten, in Houston. The owners of Lucky’s Pub had given his Buck’s...
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How African American Visitors Found Texas BBQ During the Jim Crow Era
On April 10, 1936, Tom Foward and Callie Lilly found themselves engaged in an eighty-mile late-evening chase with the local police. The African American couple from Dallas had fled an altercation at a...
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Come to Feges BBQ for the Sides, Stay for the Meat
Food courts are like rental car counters: no matter what you ask for, the expectation is serviceability, not excitement. That’s what makes Feges BBQ, at Greenway Plaza, in Houston such a surprise....
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How Wyatt McSpadden Became the BBQ Photographer of Texas
A Texas photographer for more than 40 years, Amarillo native Wyatt McSpadden has had his work featured in Texas Monthly many times. His coverage of the state’s barbecue scene, along with his 2009 book,...
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Where to Find the Heart of Texas Barbecue
Wyatt McSpadden’s photography has been a mainstay of Texas Monthly for forty years. And though he’s shot many memorable subjects for us—who could forget Willie Nelson in a Santa hat?—he’s probably best...
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BBQ News Roundup: Saving Sam’s, Catching a Prime Suspect, and the Opening of...
The owners of Sam’s BBQ in Austin announced they were staying put even though they’d been offered $3 million from developers for the restaurant. They’ve asked for community support to stay open. The...
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Daniel Vaughn’s ‘Smokelandia’ Premieres Tonight on the Cooking Channel
I have a television show! Well, really it’s just a pilot episode—meaning a network liked the “sizzle reel” enough to pay for one episode, but not enough to order a whole season. It’s called...
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Harlem Road Texas BBQ is Worth the Journey
Ara Malekian’s first cooking job was in a fancy French kitchen in Switzerland, his first bite of Texas-style barbecue was in California, and his first drink in the morning, an Armenian coffee, reflects...
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Pappas Delta Blues Smokehouse Offers Consistently Great Brisket
At Pappas Delta Blues Smokehouse, the smoked brisket is the star of the show—the prime-grade Creekstone brisket literally has its name in lights on a marquee above the front door.”That meat’s gotta be...
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Brenham Has Another Winner with LJ’s BBQ
When Truth Barbecue opened three years ago, Brenham quickly became one of Texas’s top barbecue destinations. But as Leonard Botello IV’s joint received praise and a national spotlight, a small barbecue...
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At San Antonio’s South BBQ, the Meat and Sides Get Equal Billing
Drive south, down Mission Road just past the historic Mission Concepción, and you’ll find one of San Antonio’s newest barbecue joints. You may have to look closely to spot South BBQ and Kitchen: The...
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Road Map: The Best Pitmaster Pit Stops in Texas
A Texas road trip is hardly complete without barbecue. Heck, we regularly plan trips that are nothing but barbecue. You might have memorized the Top 50 BBQ list, and maybe you’ve even completed your...
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BBQ News Roundup: Pop-up Barbecue, Cajun Country’s Influence, and...
The “underground” barbecue scene is all the rage in Los Angeles, and now Fort Worth is getting in on the trend with Dayne’s Craft BBQ. “We designed a research project to evaluate the effect of aging on...
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El Paso’s Desert Oak Barbecue Has Come a Long Way
Three large red letters caught my eye at a busy intersection in El Paso, and I knew I’d found the new home for Desert Oak Barbecue. “BBQ” is the only thing written above the door, but it stands out...
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Mad Jack’s Mountaintop Barbecue Offers Texas-Style Brisket in New Mexico
Kirk Jackson didn’t like banks. Unbeknownst to his family, he stuffed cash into tackle boxes, jars, and toolboxes and hid them in the trunk of a junked-out 1971 Mercury Montego in Lockhart, Texas. It...
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Texas-Style Brisket and Otherworldly Pulled Pork in … Huntington Park,...
Rene “Ray” Ramirez took his first trip to Texas just three years ago. From the menu and the décor in his Huntington Park barbecue joint, just outside Los Angeles, you’d think he was a Texpat. He gushes...
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BBQ News Roundup: Whole Hog Barbecue, Rib-Eating Contests, and Grilling in a...
Texas Monthly Top 50 BBQ joint BBQ on the Brazos had a landlord dispute and is now looking for a new home. They plan to operate from a trailer until they can build their own spot. The first daily...
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ZZQ Brings Flawless Texas Barbecue to Virginia
We’ve moved far past the idea that good Texas-style barbecue can only be smoked within the borders of the Lone Star State. I travel Texas searching for the best barbecue it has to offer, and sometimes...
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What Should We Call the Barbecue Greats?
Several years ago, I was choking down just enough food to be polite at a now-defunct barbecue joint. As the owner and I made small talk about wood and smokers, he told me he’d cooked more than 10,000...
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