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2019 Readers’ Choice BBQ Bracket: Vote in the Semifinals!
Our BBQ Bracket began with 75 outstanding barbecue restaurants from our Top 50 Barbecue Joints in Texas and Top 25 New Barbecue Joints in Texas lists, and you’ve now winnowed those down to the final...
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Vote in the Final Round of the 2019 Readers’ Choice BBQ Bracket
And then there were two. Our BBQ Bracket is down to just Snow’s BBQ of Lexington, which claimed the No. 1 spot on our Top 50 Barbecue Joints in Texas in 2017, and Brett’s Backyard Bar-B-Que of...
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Where to Find the Best Barbecue in New Orleans
I’m often asked where folks can find good barbecue in major American cities throughout the country. When I get the question about New Orleans, a place I lived in for five years, my usual response is,...
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Snow’s BBQ Wins the 2019 Texas Monthly Readers’ Choice BBQ Bracket
What else is there to say? Our readers have great taste. After six rounds of competition and votes cast by more than 11,000 participants, the Texas Monthly Readers’ Choice is … also the Texas Monthly...
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BBQ News Roundup: Bacon Burnt End Day, Smokey John’s Food Coma, and a Tex-Mex...
The readers’ choice and editors’ choice rarely match up when it comes to barbecue joints, but in this case, Snow’s BBQ takes the crown in both. The complete history of barbecue pork ribs: Our barbecue...
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The Gospel of Texas Barbecue Is Spreading
Texas barbecue is flaunting its dominance in some unexpected places these days. During a road trip through portions of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, I didn’t bring along high hopes for smoked brisket and...
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There’s Something Better Than Brisket at Franklin Barbecue
Smoked beef short ribs at Franklin Barbecue in Austin might just be the most difficult bite of barbecue to score in Texas. They’re served only on Saturdays, which is usually the busiest day with the...
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Fort Worth Gets a Serious Contender with Derek Allan’s Texas BBQ
Derek Allan’s Texas BBQ might be the newest barbecue joint in Fort Worth, but owners Derek and Brittany Crudgington have been in the smoked-meat business far longer. They ran a food truck, Don’t Mess...
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Cowtown Brewing’s Double-Cut Smoked Pork Chop Is a Perfect Marriage of...
Back in 2017, when I first wrote about Big D Barbecue in Mansfield, owner Jordy Jordan told me about his upcoming project: Cowtown Brewing Co. would bring together his two loves of barbecue and beer....
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Let Your Soul Glow With SLAB BBQ’s McDowell Boneless Rib Sandwich
Mark Avalos has been an innovator since he opened his Sugar Shack BBQ trailer in Austin in 2006. Back when pulled pork remained a rarity in Texas, he was selling it on a sandwich with coleslaw on top....
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Bill Karau’s Quest for the Perfect Barbecue Smoke
Predictability is a foreign concept when it comes to wood fires in a barbecue smoker. Properly controlling the coals and smoke produced by burning wood over the course of a dozen or so hours is what...
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BBQ News Roundup: Smoked Burgers, a Meat Fight 1K, and the Valentina’s Love...
“Barbecue was once a Southern food with a national fan base. Now it’s a national food with Southern roots. Now barbecue has a future as well as a past.” – John T. Edge. Those are indeed la Barbecue’s...
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CowBurners BBQ & Taproom Brings ‘Rib Candy’ and Craft Beer to Mineola
Jason Herring left Mineola after high school to make a life outside his hometown. He tried his hand at the insurance business, worked in a Cargill slaughterhouse, and ran smokers that could hold 2,400...
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The K-Rigg Pressure Smoker Cooks a Ten-Pound Brisket in Two Hours
When Kyle Riggen started designing his K-Rigg Pressure Smoker in 2017, he’d never built a smoker of any sort and had little experience cooking barbecue. He had, however, run out of patience with his...
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Brisket Love Barbecue & Icehouse Adds a Required Stop to Any East Texas BBQ Tour
Brisket Love Barbecue and Icehouse is just over a mile off Interstate 20, yet it feels secluded in the woods of East Texas. Owners Craig and Lee Ann Wood chose the location, a former catfish house,...
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BBQ News Roundup: Southside Market Grows, Brisket Prices Soar, and Germans...
The oldest name in Texas barbecue will expand to Austin and Hutto when Southside Market opens a new store, its third, this year and another in 2020. Brace for record high brisket prices: Brisket prices...
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Top 5 BBQ’s Kendon Greene Stages a Comeback With KG’s Pitmaster BBQ
Just a year ago, Kendon and Davetta Greene began the expansion of their successful barbecue joint in DeSoto. Top 5 BBQ was in the Texas Monthly Top 50 and had just been named the best barbecue in town...
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Meat Church BBQ Supply Is a One-Stop Shop For Barbecue Newbies
Early retirement is the dream of many who work in the world of finance. Matt Pittman managed it at age 43, but it wasn’t thanks to any fat-cat clients or boardroom deal-making. Pittman built a barbecue...
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Texas-Style Barbecue Has Arrived in Denver
Searching for Texas-style barbecue outside the state lines usually means seeking out smoked brisket or maybe beef ribs. In Denver, I found a direct link to Central Texas through a few slices of the far...
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A Texas Road Trip Inspired Australia’s Newest Barbecue Joint
Our driver wondered if we were in the right neighborhood. My family and I were looking for a restaurant in a light-industrial section of Keilor East, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. We were closer to...
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