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Ten Places to Eat State Fair Food Without Setting Foot in the State Fair
The State Fair of Texas officially kicks off on Friday, September 24. After hosting a drive-through version of the fair last year, the fairgrounds in Dallas’s Fair Park will be teeming with visitors...
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Burning Questions With Brotherton’s Black Iron Barbecue
After a false start, John Brotherton made a resolution to commit his life to barbecue. He quit his full-time job as a debt collector in 2016 and hasn’t looked back. Brotherton teamed-up with Kelly...
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Has Texas Brisket Peaked?
Every four years, the Texas Monthly staff and I spend several months searching for the state’s best barbecue. Early in the process of building the new list of our 50 Best Barbecue Joints, which will...
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At Hecho En Texas, the Barbecue Customer Is Always Right
Jamie Galvan used to persuade folks in Temple to spend $50,000 or more on a brand-new Ford F-150. Now he has to persuade the residents in his hometown of Cameron that $18 per pound isn’t too much to...
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Do You Want Your Brisket in a Bento Box? On a Taco? Or Over Rice?
The 2013 debut of Valentina’s Tex Mex BBQ’s Austin food truck was perhaps the first sign that Texas barbecue was entering a period of sustained innovation. But the expansion of ’cue culture isn’t just...
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No, Barbecue Sauce Isn’t Evil
Texans love barbecue sauce. Hell, I love barbecue sauce. Yes, Lockhart’s Kreuz Market, once regarded as the Texas barbecue standard-bearer, refused for decades to offer sauce (or forks, for that...
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Tales From the BBQ Trail
It’s the journey, not the destination,” the old saying goes. Alas, the old saying doesn’t apply to barbecue. When it comes to well-smoked brisket, spicy sausage, and tooth-achingly sweet cobbler, it is...
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Seven A-maize-ing Side Dishes
Potato salad, coleslaw, and pinto beans have long been the foundation of Texas barbecue side offerings. But smoked-meat fans now expect greater variety from the supporting players. Collard greens, mac...
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The Top 50 Texas BBQ Joints: 2021 Edition
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Our 50 BBQ Honorable Mentions
Every four years, this magazine embarks on a delicious but daunting task: choosing the fifty best barbecue establishments in Texas. The job is delicious for obvious reasons. The daunting part is...
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Burning Questions With Goldee’s Barbecue
Dylan Taylor, Lane Milne, Jalen Heard, Nupohn Inthanousay, and Jonny White—the five pitmasters behind Goldee’s Barbecue—finally opened up shop in Fort Worth just a few weeks before the statewide...
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Video: Behind the Scenes at Goldee’s, the Number One Barbecue Joint in Texas
It almost sounds like a fairy tale: a group of friends in the mid-cities of DFW went all the way through school together, and decided to follow one another to Austin after high school graduation. Lane...
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A Barbecue Nerd’s Guide to the Most Historic Joints in Texas
We recently released a list of what we consider the top fifty barbecue joints in the state. The pitmasters on that list are creating the future traditions of Texas barbecue as we speak. But they’ve...
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Bolt Over to Briscuits for a Brisket Biscuit
Bread at most barbecue joints is an afterthought. Slices of cheap white bread are handed out for free and often end up in the trash. So I was struck by a new food truck in Austin where the bread, in...
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TM Recommends: A Dallas Festival That Blends Blues and Barbecue
The barbecue keeps coming. In the wake of the new Texas Monthly Top 50 barbecue joints list comes the annual Blues, Bandits & BBQ festival. Established ten years ago by Dallas neighborhood booster...
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Burning Questions With Smokey John’s Bar-B-Que and Home Cooking
Family has always been at the center of Smokey John’s, and keeping their father’s memory alive through food and service comes naturally to Juan and Brent Reaves. As with most restaurants, the global...
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Redwine’s BBQ Eats & Sweets Serves Barbecue Basics With a Side of Family Legacy
Family legacies can be complicated. Kenneth Redwine understood that when, shortly after his father John passed away in 2016, he hauled an unfinished barbecue food truck out from his late dad’s driveway...
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How Greenberg Smoked Turkey Rebuilt After the Fire That Ruined Thanksgiving
A year ago, Sam Greenberg was settled in at his lake house for the weekend. He and his mostly seasonal crew of employees had spent the previous month smoking, packaging, and freezing thousands of...
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A Small-town Taco Shop Turns Its Focus to Barbecue, With Great Results
When I first visited Wright On Taco nearly two years ago, the only barbecue on the menu was chopped brisket in a taco or on a bun. Owners Brian and Julie Wright had gone all in on tacos, learning to...
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Life After Bodacious: Bryan Bingham Starts Fresh With Sunbird Barbecue
Until recently, Bryan Bingham had a young pitmaster’s dream job. Five years ago, with no commercial barbecue experience, the 34-year-old was brought on to assist on the pits at the Bodacious Bar-B-Q on...
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