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Leaving Austin Was the Right Move For Louie’s BBQ
Luis Vasquez didn’t understand much about the barbecue scene he was entering when he opened the Louie’s BBQ food truck in Austin in 2016. Pitmasters like Joey Victorian and John Brotherton visited...
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The Slow Bone’s New Smoked Pork Chop Takes Three Weeks to Make
The Slow Bone smokes some of the best barbecue in Dallas. Their brisket, pork ribs, and sausage would please any barbecue purist, but they also take unconventional steps for some of their other...
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Marty B’s Overdoes It on Almost Everything, But the Brisket Is Great
If you want to picture Marty B’s, in Bartonville, imagine the opposite of Snow’s BBQ, in Lexington. While the number one barbecue joint in Texas is quaint—with picnic tables for seating and a kitchen...
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BBQ News Roundup: The Capitol Honors Tootsie, and Sausage Wars and a Barbecue...
Norma Frances “Tootsie” Tomanetz was recognized in the Texas House this week with Resolution 706, which celebrates “her achievements as a barbecue pit master.” Texas Department of Agriculture...
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Former Football Coach Scores Big With the BBQ Place
Robert Crivellari has spent most of his working life leading a team. He was a successful head football coach and athletic director at Elkins High School, just outside Houston, for 7 years and spent 23...
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Blood Bros. BBQ’s Innovative Menu Combines Asian, Cajun, and Texas Flavors
I sat at a picnic table on the patio of Blood Bros. BBQ with a banh mi and a bowl of gumbo on one tray. The banh mi was stuffed with the cucumber, cilantro, pickled carrots, and daikon you’d expect to...
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The Smoked Sausage at the BBQ Barn Continues a Family Legacy
When Mark Albright opened the BBQ Barn in 2016, he had no idea that the joint would bring him new, stronger family ties. Barbecue had been just a weekend hobby for him before he was laid off from his...
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Charlie’s Bar-B-Que Offers More Than Just Delicious Links to the Past
The barbecue history of Southeast Texas has been entwined with links for as long as it’s had a dining culture. Legendary joints like Patillo’s Bar-B-Q have been making all-beef sausages stuffed in beef...
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It’s 71 Years Old, But Ernie’s Pit Barbeque Feels Like a Great New Joint
Walk through the doors of Ernie’s Pit Barbeque, in Greenville, and you’ll notice a row of school desks. Dallasites might recognize them as a nod to the famous seats at the original Sonny Bryan’s, but...
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BBQ News Roundup: A Top 50 Joint Closes, Blood Bros. Gets Lots of Love, and...
We’re sad to report that Top 5 BBQ in Desoto has closed its doors. They had a spot on the 2017 Top 50 BBQ list and moved to a new, larger location late last year. Owner Kendon Greene explained in a...
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Enterprising High School Welders Are Building Custom Barbecue Smokers
The demand for custom, offset smokers hasn’t slowed since we wrote about the popularity of the thousand-gallon smoker in August. In fact, the waiting lists just keep growing. Sunny Moberg is nearing...
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The Porkstrami Panini at Frisco’s Heritage Table is Something Else
For two years, I’ve been telling myself that I needed to check out the Heritage Table, in Frisco. When I finally made it this week, owner Rich Vana told me not to feel bad about taking so long. “I have...
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Smiley’s Craft Barbecue Brings East Austin Flavors to Small-Town North Texas
Ponder, Texas, is an unlikely location for a new craft barbecue business. The one-stoplight town of fewer than 2,000 residents, about thirteen miles southwest of Denton, isn’t on the way to anywhere...
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Southern Q BBQ Brings Its Spicy Boudin to a Second Location
Smoked boudin has become increasingly popular at barbecue joints throughout Texas—not just along the Louisiana border. Most of it comes from just two suppliers in Beaumont: Zummo Meat Co. and DJ’s...
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BBQ News Roundup: Busting Brisket Myths, Obama Loves Texas Barbecue, and New...
The Houston Chronicle says the idea of Texas brisket seasoned with just salt and pepper is a myth. Take a tour of the new location of Heim BBQ in Fort Worth: A special preview: Emma and Travis Heim...
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The Top 25 New Barbecue Joints in Texas!
Texas barbecue is flourishing. The pace at which new joints, and more specifically great new joints, are opening is staggering. I’ve spent the two years since we published our 2017 list of the Top 50...
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Ferris Wheelers Backyard & BBQ Changed My Mind About Grass-Fed Brisket
The first time I tried a smoked grass-fed brisket, I hated it. At a 2010 barbecue competition in Dallas where all the brisket entries were from purely grass-fed cattle, I told the Dallas Observer,...
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H-E-B Runs the Best Barbecue Chain in Texas
The best statewide barbecue chain in Texas is housed inside grocery stores. With ten locations of True Texas BBQ and counting, H-E-B is opening its version of a neighborhood barbecue joint from...
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Midland Finally Has Destination Barbecue at Up in Smoke BBQ Co.
It’s the best of times and the worst of times for any new barbecue joint in Midland. Oil and gas are still revving the region’s economic engine and ensuring plenty of hungry customers. But any business...
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BBQ News Roundup: Houston’s International Smoke, a Bryan-College Station...
The Austin Chronicle interviewed “The Julia Child of BBQ,” author Steven Raichlen, about his new book on brisket. The pork ribs and smoked turkey at Ray’s BBQ Shack were praised by the Houston Press....
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