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BBQ News Roundup: Franklin’s Taco Truck, Dickey’s in Africa, and the 12 Days...
There’s a new food truck parked outside Franklin Barbecue, and it’s serving coffee and barbecue-stuffed breakfast tacos. The Cathedral of Smoke: J.C. Reid of the Houston Chronicle laments the closure...
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The Brisket-on-Brisket Burger Is Another Tasty Reason to Visit Davila’s BBQ
Davila’s BBQ in Seguin is as classic a Texas barbecue joint as you’ll find. It’s run by son-and-father team Adrian and Edward Davila. Edward’s parents, Raul and Geronima, opened the place sixty years...
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Portland Has the Best Texas Barbecue Scene Outside of Texas
Kyle Rensmeyer missed Texas barbecue dearly when he left Dallas in 2014 for a job in Portland, Oregon. Finding brisket to match what he’d enjoyed at Lockhart Smokehouse and Pecan Lodge was a struggle....
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Portland’s Eem Unites Bold Thai Flavors With Texas-Style Barbecue
At nearly every barbecue joint, there’s one person who gets all the credit. It’s usually the pitmaster, maybe a couple of pitmasters, but any owner knows that it takes a team to run a great restaurant....
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BBQ News Roundup: Corky’s Closes in Katy, BBQ Revolution Escapes to L.A., and...
The Dallas Observer released its list of the 100 best restaurants in the area, and five are Texas-style barbecue joints. Bringing that barbecue flavor to beer: Everyone knows you can make barbecue with...
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The Best Texas BBQ Bites of 2019
We don’t keep our barbecue favorites a secret here. Every four years, we publish our list of the 50 best barbecue joints in the state. Our most recent list ran in 2017, so earlier this year, we...
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Bare Barbecue’s Savory Pork Steaks and Juicy Brisket Are a Great Value
The fact that the barbecue business requires passion has become a cliché, but how else do you explain the existence of Bare Barbecue in Cleburne? Justin Earley runs it with his brother-in-law Steven...
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Wright on Taco Plants Barbecue Roots in a Tiny East Texas Town
A donut shop sits next to Brian and Julie Wright’s barbecue-centric taco joint along Texas Highway 154, halfway between Marshall and Gilmer in East Texas. The only other hot food available in the tiny...
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BBQ News Roundup: A One-Stop Barbecue Pro Shop, Chili Time in San Antonio,...
The Kansas City Barbeque Society is in “turmoil,” according to a KCUR report. Founder Carolyn Wells has stepped away from the organization, they’re selling a recently renovated headquarters building,...
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A Barbecue Missionary From Midland Serves Real BBQ in Shreveport
Growing up in Midland, Harvey Clay’s life revolved around football, barbecue, and live music at his father’s clubs. After graduating with the last class of segregated Carver High School in 1968, he...
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The New Jack Reubie Sandwich Is Already a Hit at 407 BBQ
Bryan McLarty doesn’t like to run out of barbecue at 407 BBQ, in Argyle, but that’s been harder to avoid since he started offering the Jack Reubie. The pastrami sandwich, which first hit the specials...
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Khoi Is Expanding the Boundaries of What Barbecue Can Be
Keeping up with the rapid innovation happening in Texas barbecue is a challenge. A recent conversation with Don Nguyen of Khoi Barbecue, in Houston, made me realize it might be impossible. He runs the...
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Cooper’s Old Time Pit Bar-B-Que Has Grown a Llano Legend Into a Texas Empire
Texas barbecue empires are few. Small operations have traditionally far outnumbered the corporate ones. We have our share of chains, but our most beloved joints—spots like Louie Mueller Barbecue,...
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Some Barbecue Joints Are Going Whole Hog in a Brisket State
The smoke had already cleared when police arrived at Cattleack Barbeque, in North Dallas, on a Saturday morning in March 2015. Owner Todd David was in the back parking lot, peering into his new cooker...
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BBQ News Roundup: Vegan Barbecue in Houston, 2020 Predictions, and Buck’s...
The newest barbecue joint in Houston is vegan. Houston Sauce Pit’s signature item is a baked potato loaded with smoked “sausage” from Beyond Meat. Steven Raichlen shared his predictions for barbecue in...
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Cherry Block’s Smoke-Kissed Gumbo Reflects the Restaurant’s Barbecue Pedigree
In Texas, you can find barbecue smoking in unlikely places. Circling a high-rise apartment building in downtown Houston, I spotted a sign for Cherry Block inside the six-month-old Bravery Chef Hall....
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My Futile Search for Great Tex-Mex Ribs
It was getting dark when I headed south out of Austin. Houston was my destination for the night, but I’d gotten a tip about the ribs at Dos Rios, a Tex-Mex restaurant in New Braunfels. It was a heck of...
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Koko Ramen’s Reboot Kicks the Spice Up a Notch
Koko Ramen first opened its food truck in 2017. It was a big deal back then to offer barbecue and ramen together in Waco, a city not known for culinary diversity. That’s changed significantly in the...
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La Pantera Tacos y Mas Makes Tex-Mex Comfort Food From Panther City BBQ
When I first wrote about Panther City BBQ in 2018, owners Chris Magallanes and Ernest Morales were still holding onto their old day jobs while trying to run a part-time barbecue truck. A few months...
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BBQ News Roundup: Blue Moon Closes, Franklin’s Backyard Smokers, and a...
A Texas Monthly Top 50 BBQ joint has closed. A massive highway construction project on Texas Highway OSR north of College Station that will last until 2022 has hindered access to Blue Moon BBQ, and...
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