Texas BBQ

Purple_Pills

I’m headed to Texas in early March for Texas BBQ. Right now I have plans to do Snow, the three in Lockhart, and am preordering Franklin BBQ to skip the insane line. What are some other can’t miss joints? I’ve already done Salt Lick, Cattleack, and Pecan Lodge.

YellowSnow

Obligatory

https://youtube.com/watch?v=0-Hp8hCaimc

BennyBeaver

Hard 8

dflea

My buddy would take me to Hard Eight BBQ when I'd be in Dallas for bidness. Their sausage and their banana pudding were always awesome.

Purple_Pills

Did some research at the Horns board and I came up with a few more:

Stiles Switch
Terry Black’s
Micklethwaith

All for beef ribs. I should also try to find out if John Mueller has his shit together these days and is running a spot.

Swaye

Do Truth BBQ in Houston. Insanely good brisket.

PurpleThrobber

Memphis BBQ > Texas BBQ.

Sorry. Fact.

alumni94

Purple_Pills said:

Did some research at the Horns board and I came up with a few more:

Stiles Switch
Terry Black’s
Micklethwaith

All for beef ribs. I should also try to find out if John Mueller has his shit together these days and is running a spot.

Stiles Switch <<<<<this

RaceBannon

Benny picks sushi

HoustonHusky

Purple_Pills said:

I’m headed to Texas in early March for Texas BBQ. Right now I have plans to do Snow, the three in Lockhart, and am preordering Franklin BBQ to skip the insane line. What are some other can’t miss joints? I’ve already done Salt Lick, Cattleack, and Pecan Lodge.

Where you going in Texas? In Houston highly recommend Killens...
https://www.killensbarbecue.com/

I grew up in Tennessee and therefore on pulled pork. Took me a while to adapt to brisket but love it now.

Also make sure you try burnt ends at a good BBQ place...

BennyBeaver

RaceBannon said:

Benny picks sushi

Purple_Pills

HoustonHusky said:

Purple_Pills said:

I’m headed to Texas in early March for Texas BBQ. Right now I have plans to do Snow, the three in Lockhart, and am preordering Franklin BBQ to skip the insane line. What are some other can’t miss joints? I’ve already done Salt Lick, Cattleack, and Pecan Lodge.

Where you going in Texas? In Houston highly recommend Killens...
https://www.killensbarbecue.com/

I grew up in Tennessee and therefore on pulled pork. Took me a while to adapt to brisket but love it now.

Also make sure you try burnt ends at a good BBQ place...

I fly into San Antonio, then head down to SPI, then up through Port Aransas, Galveston/ Houston, Lafayette (Cajun food time), Dallas, and then down to Austin, and fly out of San Antonio.

Mad_Son

HoustonHusky said:

Purple_Pills said:

I’m headed to Texas in early March for Texas BBQ. Right now I have plans to do Snow, the three in Lockhart, and am preordering Franklin BBQ to skip the insane line. What are some other can’t miss joints? I’ve already done Salt Lick, Cattleack, and Pecan Lodge.

Where you going in Texas? In Houston highly recommend Killens...
https://www.killensbarbecue.com/

I grew up in Tennessee and therefore on pulled pork. Took me a while to adapt to brisket but love it now.

Also make sure you try burnt ends at a good BBQ place...

I was going to say Killens also.

1to392831weretaken

So "Hard Eight" is famous for sausage and banana pudding...

Is this a BBQ joint or a gay bar? Or whoosh?

BennyBeaver

1to392831weretaken said:

So "Hard Eight" is famous for sausage and banana pudding...

Is this a BBQ joint or a gay bar? Or whoosh?

The first 6 are consensual.



https://hardeightbbq.com/

Swaye

Mad_Son said:

HoustonHusky said:

Purple_Pills said:

I’m headed to Texas in early March for Texas BBQ. Right now I have plans to do Snow, the three in Lockhart, and am preordering Franklin BBQ to skip the insane line. What are some other can’t miss joints? I’ve already done Salt Lick, Cattleack, and Pecan Lodge.

Where you going in Texas? In Houston highly recommend Killens...
https://www.killensbarbecue.com/

I grew up in Tennessee and therefore on pulled pork. Took me a while to adapt to brisket but love it now.

Also make sure you try burnt ends at a good BBQ place...

I was going to say Killens also.

Killens, is great, I've had it, but Truth is better imho. They both make every Houston Top 10 list there is:

https://www.papercitymag.com/restaurants/houston-barbecue-best-killens-corkscrew-truth-bbq-pit-room/

You can't go wrong with either.

Also, if you happen to drive through Llano, TX, try Coopers. That was a staple of my youth driving to the deer lease. Always stopped in for a few pounds of brisket for the weekend hunt. You haven't lived, or plugged up your asshole completely, until the only food you ingested for an entire weekend is Coopers brisket and venison jerky from the lease. I didn't shit for a week. When it finally happened, it was like a butthole Guernica.

You owe it to yourself to hit up at least a couple places like Coopers. This place was on the Texas Monthly Best Brisket joints in the 1980's. It's old school BBQ. The new places like Truth and Franklins are undeniably awesome, but places like Coopers set the stage for them. And hell, last I checked the list it was STILL on the Texas Monthly Top 50! Since 1962! Do it, your butthole will thank me.

https://www.coopersbbq.com/

Mad_Son

Swaye said:

Mad_Son said:

HoustonHusky said:

Purple_Pills said:

I’m headed to Texas in early March for Texas BBQ. Right now I have plans to do Snow, the three in Lockhart, and am preordering Franklin BBQ to skip the insane line. What are some other can’t miss joints? I’ve already done Salt Lick, Cattleack, and Pecan Lodge.

Where you going in Texas? In Houston highly recommend Killens...
https://www.killensbarbecue.com/

I grew up in Tennessee and therefore on pulled pork. Took me a while to adapt to brisket but love it now.

Also make sure you try burnt ends at a good BBQ place...

I was going to say Killens also.

Killens, is great, I've had it, but Truth is better imho. They both make every Houston Top 10 list there is:

https://www.papercitymag.com/restaurants/houston-barbecue-best-killens-corkscrew-truth-bbq-pit-room/

You can't go wrong with either.

Also, if you happen to drive through Llano, TX, try Coopers. That was a staple of my youth driving to the deer lease. Always stopped in for a few pounds of brisket for the weekend hunt. You haven't lived, or plugged up your asshole completely, until the only food you ingested for an entire weekend is Coopers brisket and venison jerky from the lease. I didn't shit for a week. When it finally happened, it was like a butthole Guernica.

You owe it to yourself to hit up at least a couple places like Coopers. This place was on the Texas Monthly Best Brisket joints in the 1980's. It's old school BBQ. The new places like Truth and Franklins are undeniably awesome, but places like Coopers set the stage for them. And hell, last I checked the list it was STILL on the Texas Monthly Top 50! Since 1962! Do it, your butthole will thank me.

https://www.coopersbbq.com/

Looking at that list I'd pick Swinging door and brookstreet over a number of those.

HoustonHusky

Not BBQ, but if you are in Houston have dinner at Papa’s Steakhouse. You’ll thank me later.

AtomicDawg

Rudy’s bbq is great for smoked Turkey. Yes it is in a gas station but it’s legit.

Hard 8 is good. The jalapeño sausage is great. It may or may not be a sexual move as well.

Purple_Pills

Thanks again for the tips. In Texas now, been to two so far.

First went to Butters in Mathis. Nice juicy brisket, beef rib, and excellent sides.

Today I hit Bodacious in Longview, which is the Texas Monthly’s #4. Very good. The brisket was juicy, good ribs, and the burnt ends boudin is amazing. Potato salad good, but coleslaw was meh.

Tomorrow I hit up Central Texas.

BennyBeaver

Longview, TX

Been there a few tims. Bodacious was the shit 20 years ago.