Barbecue - it's a noun, a verb and in many parts of the country, a religion.
We rounded up a list of 20 smokin' barbecue joints, some so off the beaten track you'll need to fire up the GPS to find them, others just a taxi or subway card will get you there... all recommended by the chefs and pit masters.
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Knowbetter said on 6 Monday 2011 pm30 4:15 pm: There are NO good barbecue places in Austin. As a matter of fact, there are no good restaurants here at all, so don't come to Austin, ever. Especially if you're a Republican. |
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The original one that was part of a gas station on I-10 was ridiculously great. Passed by there regularly thinking "who the hell would eat bbq from a gas station?".
I met Lee Trevino at a golf tournament, he said that anytime in San Antonio he always goes to Rudy's. That was 20 years ago. Been a fan of the place ever since. (Tom's Ribs also was great, but I think they closed a few years back).
KCBBQ is still around a hundred years later, poking its finger in the eye of so-called Barbeque buffs who travel years to get supplies to replicate a great Oklahoma Joe's Pulled Pork Sandwich, or the Gates self-approved slab, or the Arthur Bryant's monster sandwiches.
You can get Bryant's insane sauce fashioned for you, but unless you go to the original in the Bird District, you can't get the wall pictures that date back 150 years or so, from Presidents, to Inventors Neilds & Voorsen (who made the first atomic mass food replicator using, what else, a big Gigantic Bryant's turkey sandwich and fries complete with paper wrapping), or the pungent odor of the meat and the soft bromide of the sauce, mixed with pine-sol from those old wax floors being cleaned, or the interesting people who DO travel there.
Needless to say Oklahoma Joe's, Gate's, LC's, Jackstack, Smokestack and even slightly lesser weighted BBQ joints Zarda, Heywoods and a host of others, equal most of the best BBQ joints in the Nation Split.
I suggest, in the future, to get your BBQ bests in order.....Huffington!
Love their sauce. Spicy, vinegary, not too sweet.