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BBQ News Roundup: Tons of Bacon Burnt Ends, a Pitmaster’s Potluck, and the...
In the East Texas town of Douglass, they’re giving Tomball’s Tejas Chocolate and Barbecue a run for its money at Uncle Doug’s, where they smoke meat and make bean-to-bar chocolate. The author provides...
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Brett’s BBQ Shop Serves Spectacular Brisket and Beef Ribs
It was noon on Friday, thirty minutes after Brett’s BBQ Shop in Katy had opened, and one of the specials was already sold out. Jacqueline Herrera, the restaurant’s general manager, had to smooth things...
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Shoemaker’s Barbecue Is Long Gone, But Its Legacy Carries On
A year shy of its fiftieth birthday, the original Shoemaker’s Barbecue was demolished in downtown Dallas in 1975. At the time, Texas Monthly mourned the demise of “one of the city’s historic barbecue...
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Los Muertos BBQ’s Brisket Puffy Taco Adds to the Tex-Mex Barbecue Trend
Rick Muniz lives two lives. Mondays through Thursdays, he’s a consultant for the Texas Department of Public Safety in its Houston anti-gang unit. Fridays through Sundays, you can find him working the...
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Daddy Duncan’s Dishes Out Barbecue All Over Katy
Daddy Duncan’s BBQ trailer in Katy may only open its windows on weekends, but you can get its barbecue all week long. Owners Sylvia and Randy Duncan have partnered with nine different restaurants and...
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Flores Barbecue Done in Fort Worth, to Rebrand as Campo Smokehouse
Flores Barbecue left the Hill County town of Whitney in February for what owner Michael Wyont hoped would prove greener pastures in Fort Worth. A new Flores food truck opened at the Trailhead at...
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Pennie’s Tex Mex Take Out Brings New Life to a Galveston Institution
Israel “Pennie” Ochoa and his wife Connie opened Pennie’s Meat Market in Galveston in 1978 at 1713 37th Street. The building had housed a meat market as far back as least 1913, when a butcher named...
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BBQ News Roundup: RIP “Smokey” John Reaves, a Top 50 Joint For Sale, and...
In the current issue of the American Conservative, John Shelton Reed discusses the changing barbecue landscape—categorizing joints into folk barbecue, haute barbecue, and mass barbecue, the last of...
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Buck’s Moves Its Inventive Barbecue From Houston to Galveston
Jim Buchanan impressed us last summer with Buck’s Barbeque Co. in Houston. He was serving the classic Texas smoked meats along with more creative dishes. Weekly specials like the smoked meat loaf and a...
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Smoke-A-Holics BBQ Is Helping to Revitalize Southeast Fort Worth
After five years of socking away extra cash, all Kesha Walker wanted was a new house. She and her husband Derrick had been working full-time jobs and hustling on the weekends inside a sweltering...
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Mesquite BBQ Celebrates Sixty Years of Brisket Chop Chop Sandwiches
When Red Bryan closed his eponymous barbecue joint in 1957, Oak Cliff lost a beloved restaurant, and two pitmasters were out of a job. Red’s son Sonny opened Sonny Bryan’s Smokehouse in North Dallas a...
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BBQ News Roundup: Subway Punks Austin, Smoked Dallas, and a Gun-Friendly...
Subway made a bunch of Texans look foolish. These Austin folks were unwittingly involved in the barbecue version of the Taster’s Choice challenge, and they failed miserably: We don't mess around when...
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Local Yocal BBQ and Grill Excels as Both Barbecue Joint and Steakhouse
Local Yocal is a well-known brand in McKinney. Their meat market, Local Yocal Farm to Market, has been a fixture in the suburb northeast of Dallas since it opened in 2010 selling Wagyu beef. The same...
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Pitmasters Team Up to Make B-Daddy’s BBQ Even Better
Emilio and Christi Soliz had to close their acclaimed barbecue joint in San Antonio last year, and they couldn’t be happier about it. Kings Hwy. Brew & Q had received plenty of praise from food...
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At Smitty’s BBQ in Brownwood, the Smoked Sausage Is a Loving Memorial
Renee Carrathus doesn’t know how her dad came up with the recipe for the sausage she serves at Smitty’s Bar-B-Que in Brownwood. Smith “Smitty” McArthur Jr. traveled widely during his time in the Air...
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The Spareribs at San Angelo’s RJ Bar-B-Que Hit the Sweet Spot
In January, after many trips through San Angelo, I finally stopped at RJ Bar-B-Que. I’m not sure why it took so long for me to visit, but my tardiness was especially embarrassing once I saw a sign...
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Waco Barbecue Leaves the Food Trailers and Trucks Behind
The last time I saw Phillip Helberg, he was inside the Helberg Barbecue food truck with his wife, Yvette, hoping passersby would stop at their window to order. I stood nearby on some concrete stairs,...
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BBQ News Roundup: Houston Versus Austin, a Stubb’s Settlement, and Red Meat’s...
How does craft barbecue balance its small-batch, hand-made mentality with the challenge of operating multiple locations, some in different cities or even different states? Tune in to True South on...
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The Transformation of Smokey Joe’s Bar-B-Que Is Stunning
In 1985, Kenneth Manning and Joe Melton converted an old gas station along Interstate 35 in southern Dallas into a barbecue joint. They built a smoker along the back wall from brick and steel and...
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The Pastrami Reuben at Roegels Barbecue Co. Is One of the Best Barbecue...
I dubbed 2016 the year of pastrami. Barbecue joints across the state were turning out pastrami beef ribs, beef cheeks, briskets, and even pastrami pork ribs. The pastrami fad has slowed since then, but...
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