John Mueller Is Back (Again) at Granger City Brewing
Two years ago, we announced the opening of the Black Box Barbecue trailer in Georgetown. It was supposed to lead to a brick-and-mortar restaurant thatRead More…
Tag: BBQ
How Hurricane Harvey Unexpectedly Revitalized Houston Barbecue Company
Joseph and Lucinda Flores took over Houston Barbecue Company in Houston’s Energy Corridor neighborhood in 2014. Joseph had close to twenty yearsRead More…
Chef Aarón Sánchez Hasn’t Forgotten His Texas Roots
If you’ve ever watched the Food Network, tuned into MasterChef Junior—where he frequently and endearingly calls the young contestants mijo or mijaRead More…
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 unitRead More…
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 mourneRead More…
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 HerrerRead More…
BBQ News Roundup: Tons of Bacon Burnt Ends, a Pitmaster’s Potluck, and the Politics of Bill Miller Bar-B-Q
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 smRead More…
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, Read More…
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 liRead More…
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 clienRead More…
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 50Read More…
BBQ News Roundup: Southside Market Grows, Brisket Prices Soar, and Germans Love Texas Barbecue
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. BRead More…
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 WRead More…
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 bRead More…
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 slaRead More…
BBQ News Roundup: Smoked Burgers, a Meat Fight 1K, and the Valentina’s Love Story
“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 Read More…
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 wooRead More…
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 Read More…
The Great Northern BBQ Road Trip
A barbecue road trip through the American South is hardly a challenge. Texas, Alabama, Georgia, and the Carolinas are rich in barbecue destinations. TRead More…
2019 Readers’ Choice BBQ Bracket: Vote in the Quarterfinal Round
Hey, y’all — we’ve reached the quarterfinals of our BBQ Bracket pitting longtime favorites from our Top 50 Barbecue Joints in Texas liRead More…