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For $40, You Can Get an Excellent Steak Dinner Off a Dirt Road in the Panhandle
On an empty stretch of Panhandle highway between Dumas and Stinnett is a painted sign hanging from a post along a fence line. It’s faded just enough that you might wonder if the XXL Ranch and Steak...
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This Pitmaster Is Preserving West Tennessee’s Whole-Hog Tradition
Zach Parker was a few weeks shy of his twenty-second birthday, in 2013, when his father, Ricky Parker, passed away. Ricky was a legendary whole-hog pitmaster and the owner of B. E. Scott’s Bar-B-Que,...
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After Seventeen Trips to Texas, This Pitmaster Proves a Worthy Ambassador in...
Blake Stoker fell for Texas barbecue hard and fast. The native of Dresden, Tennessee—two hours and change northeast of Memphis—wasn’t familiar with smoked brisket but learned plenty about beef while...
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Named After a Willie Nelson Album, This Texas-Style Barbecue Joint Is...
Bill Laviolette’s first foray into the barbecue business was a midlife crisis that ended in failure. The Houston native had moved to Nashville in 2008 with his then-wife, Sara. The recession dried up...
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Barbs-B-Q Provides the Twenty-First-Century Energy Lockhart Needs
Never has a new barbecue joint in Texas been more highly anticipated than Barbs-B-Q in Lockhart. None in the trio of Chuck Charnichart, Haley Conlin, and Alexis Tovias had run a barbecue joint before,...
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Rotisserie Smokers Are Cool Again
I pulled into the gravel lot in front of M&M BBQ Company’s fabrication shop in Tool and saw four offset smokers piled behind a chain-link fence like old muscle cars in a scrapyard. They’d been...
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The 25 Best New and Improved BBQ Joints in Texas
In Texas, a few towns are so closely associated with legendary barbecue joints that just uttering their names—Llano, Lockhart, Luling, Taylor—conjures up the smell of woodsmoke and prompts an...
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Nearly Everything Has Improved at This Fort Worth Barbecue Joint, Making It...
Fort Worth enjoys the best collection of young barbecue joints of any city in Texas. Just look at our most recent Top 50 list. But the city is missing in our just-published list of the best new...
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Get All Your Favorite Barbecue-Joint Rubs and Sauces at This One-stop Shop
Many of our favorite barbecue joints sell their own proprietary rubs and sauces, but hunting them down can be a challenge. You may have to visit the restaurant to buy a fresh bottle, or track down...
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Brisket Is Booming in Georgia and South Carolina
“No gross parts” is printed in parentheses next to hash and rice on the menu at City Limits Barbeque in West Columbia, South Carolina. Hash is like a cooked-down barbecue stew, and it’s a standard side...
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A Saucy Lawsuit Pits Two Barbecue Companies Against Each Other
What’s the big whoop with a name like Big Wick’s? Ask barbecue sauce manufacturer Wicker’s Food Products (WFP), headquartered in Hornersville, Missouri, and founded in 1947. The company filed a lawsuit...
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What’s in a Barbecue Name? A Lot, According to the Feuding Hutchins Family
“My other two boys thought I was washed up,” Roy Hutchins said with pride when discussing the new restaurant he opened with his eldest son, Wes Hutchins, in the town of Trophy Club, about thirty miles...
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Attending a Fall Wedding? You’ll Likely Be Eating Brisket From the Patriotic...
The Patriotic Pig was started as a barbecue catering company, mostly for weddings, by Marc and Gina Smith in 2016. A year in, business was so good Marc quit his job in IT, and Gina quit her job a year...
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This BBQ Trailer Aims to Serve Good Food to Truck Drivers
Ten miles west of the Arkansas border, there’s a busy truck stop at the Leary exit in Texarkana. A couple fast food options are inside, but many truckers walk across the street to the bright yellow...
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After a Back-Breaking Injury, This Pitmaster Knows He’s Lucky to Be Alive
Chuck Terrell was relieved to make it through this August unscathed. In August 2021, he fell thirty feet from a ladder, which left part of his spine unmoored in his upper back. A year later, he finally...
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This Revamped Joint Finally Makes Paris a Barbecue Contender
After running Scholl Brothers Bar-B-Que in Paris since 2003, the Scholl family was ready to retire from the barbecue business last year. Coincidentally, Justin Lewis was ready to trade his career in...
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Drive Out to Newark—No, Not That One—for Stellar Barbecue Sandwiches
If I told you to find Newark on a map, you’d be forgiven if you went straight to New Jersey, but there’s another one, just north of Fort Worth. It’s a small town, not along any major highways, with a...
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Is Texas’s Barbecue Bubble Ready to Burst?
Business is always slow for restaurants after New Year’s, but 2023 was especially painful at Evie Mae’s Pit Barbeque, in Wolfforth, near Lubbock. The holiday orders in November and December came...
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You Can Still Get Your Barbecue Fix at the State Fair of Texas
The State Fair of Texas opened last Friday for another fall of football, the Ferris wheel, and fried food. This year brings a new list of winners for the Big Tex Choice Awards, none of which were...
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The 13 Best Texas-Raised Wagyu Burgers
I’ve been covering Texas-raised Wagyu beef over the last year, and one question I’ve heard from readers is: What makes Wagyu beef any different than, say, prime-grade Angus beef? It’s about the...
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