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After Serving the Oil Fields, This Barbecue Joint Starts Anew in the Hill...
Junior Urias introduced the modern style of Texas barbecue to Midland when he opened Up in Smoke BBQ in 2018. That location, a victim of the COVID-related oil and gas industry bust, shuttered in late...
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Head All the Way North on I-35 for Texas-Style Barbecue in Minnesota
Driving from the southern tip of Interstate 35 in Laredo to the northern end in Duluth, Minnesota, you’ll be well-fed with the smoked meat stops in Texas. Aside from joints in Kansas City, there aren’t...
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Three Generations Have Kept Underwood’s Cafeteria Serving Barbecue for 76 Years
An image of a cowboy in a white apron ringing a dinner bell towers high above Commerce Street in Brownwood. His name is Elmo, and he has beckoned diners into Underwood’s Cafeteria for decades, though...
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After Nearly Closing, This El Paso Barbecue Joint Opens Two Restaurants in...
Richard Funk thought the end was near for his Desert Oak Barbecue in El Paso in mid-2018. Traffic was down, and he wasn’t replacing employees who left. He told remaining employees to start looking for...
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Forget Pretty Brisket. This West Texas Joint Is Sticking to Its Direct-Heat...
I ordered a tray of meat at Big Boy’s Bar-B-Que in Sweetwater, 40 miles west of Abilene, and didn’t ask for brisket. I’d been to the joint many times before, and wanted to enjoy the cuts I thought were...
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How Offset Smokers Became the De Facto Cooking Instrument of Texas Pitmasters
The steel offset smoker is ubiquitous in Texas barbecue. Its torpedolike cooking chamber, with a tall smokestack on one end and a low-riding firebox on the other, is the symbol of Texas-style barbecue...
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A Barbecue Joint and Brewery Bring a Much-Needed Pairing to San Angelo
Blake Woodson hated his job as a wire-and-cable salesman in Dallas so much that he sought a barbecue apprenticeship seven hours away instead. Woodson learned the ropes from the team at Brick Vault...
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For a Different Kind of Brisket, Try Montreal’s Smoked Meat Sandwiches
I visited Montreal for the first time fourteen years ago. I thought I knew a lot about Texas barbecue back then, but I knew nothing of Montreal-style smoked meat beyond what the guidebooks said. The...
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Texas-Style Barbecue Invades Oklahoma
Texas-style barbecue can be found worldwide, but it crossed the Atlantic Ocean more quickly than it crossed the Red River. Until recently, a great slice of smoked brisket in Oklahoma was harder to find...
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Community Barbecues Keep Old Cooking Traditions Alive
I walked into the pit house at the Bellville Lions Club as thirty volunteers were putting the finishing touches on more than one thousand chicken halves. The haze of smoke hanging under the roof...
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This Brenham Joint Cooks Its Meat the Old-school Way, and Locals Love It
Nathan’s BBQ shares the small town of Brenham with some serious barbecue competition. Truth Barbeque, to the west, made the top ten in our latest barbecue list, and LJ’s, on the east, is a new member...
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Sample More Than Two Dozen Sausage Varieties at This Meat Market
Brothers Jerrod and Marcus Poffenberger are the fourth generation of their family living in Bellville, and the second generation to run the Bellville Meat Market. They’ve expanded the market their...
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A Pitmaster Finds Redemption in His North Texas Barbecue Joint
Paul Cruz had worked at restaurants his entire adult life until he made himself unemployable. Severe drug and alcohol abuse left him lurching from one job to the next until he had run out of chances....
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This North Texas Barbecue Joint Honors an Iconoclast Newspaper Publisher
The late William Penn Jones Jr. is best known for his unrelenting quest to uncover the truth behind the Kennedy assassination. When the longtime Midlothian resident, who went by his middle name, passed...
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Wagyu Is King at Morris Stock Farm in the Texas Panhandle
It was supposed to be a definitive steak tasting. A tournament of Texas Wagyu beef, if you will. I had gathered a dozen strip steaks, most of them from Texas-raised Wagyu producers, and even more...
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One Pitmaster Contemplates Continuing to Chase His Barbecue Dreams in a Tough...
There was $47 left in North Texas Smoke’s bank account after owner Derek Degenhardt paid for the last food delivery. If the joint sells all of that food within the next two weeks, Degenhardt can keep...
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This North Texas Barbecue Joint Is a Family Affair Helmed by a Food-Obsessed...
Christopher and Andrea Archambeault’s relationship is built on barbecue. When they met in 2018, they shared their food-related interests with each other. She was into cake pops, he had a nacho...
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Is Elgin’s Southside Market the Oldest Barbecue Joint in Texas? The Saga...
Southside Market in Elgin is the oldest barbecue joint in Texas still in operation, or so the legend goes. According to the restaurant’s history, it first began selling barbecue from a market in Elgin...
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’Cue Course: Beef Ribs 101
Goldee’s Barbecue made its way to number one on the Top 50 list after only a year in business for a number of reasons. It’s known for serving some of the best smoked meats in Texas while also offering...
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Lockhart Has a New Barbecue Family Feud
Lockhart is as well-known for a certain barbecue family feud as it is for being the Barbecue Capital of Texas. The same year the town received the designation from the Texas House, in 1999, the rift...
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