News

NYC’s Big Brisket Competition Heads to Williamsburg

Sliced brisket

Famed brisket competition heads to Williamsburg Brisket King of NYC returns for its seventh year, moving to Williamsburg. The lengthy list of competition participants includes NYC homegrown barbecue joints like Hill Country, Salt and Bone BBQ, Butcher Bar, and Brooklyn’s Dinosaur BBQ outpost. Chefs from Toronto and England will also be present, and the event…

Read More...

Exclusive Look at Loro, Aaron Franklin and Tyson Cole’s New Eatery

Loro restaurant

The long-awaited collaboration between two of the state’s biggest names in food opens April 4. Here’s a sneak peek. It sounds like The Odd Couple crossed with Chef’s Table: Aaron Franklin is famous for stupendous slabs of smoked fatty brisket at Franklin Barbecue. Tyson Cole is famous for exquisite sushi, sashimi, and Japanese snacks at…

Read More...

Martin’s Bar-B-Que expands to Spring Hill, Hugh Baby’s to East Nashville

Food from Hugh Babys

Martin said opening in Spring Hill was “an obvious next transition” for the restaurant, which specializes in West Tennessee-style whole hog barbecue and scratch-made sides made fresh each morning from family recipes. The Martin’s menu includes barbecue sandwiches, barbecue plates, ribs, wings and more. Hogs from Fatback Farms go on the restaurant’s pits each day…

Read More...

Celebrity Chef Michael Symon On His Way to Palms

Michael Symon

There’s been a flurry of activity at Palms in recent weeks, mainly involving restaurants and other venues closing as Red Rock Resorts (Station Casinos) moves into its new digs. News about what’s in store for Palms is light, but now we’re hearing the resort has inked a deal with celebrity chef Michael Symon for a…

Read More...

BBQ Joint Number 51

Plate of food

June has been barbecue month at Texas Monthly. After a four-year wait (and thousands of miles and hundreds of joints), our new Top 50 BBQ joint list was finally released. It’s been a good month for both the magazine and—we hope—those who made the barbecue list. For some who didn’t, the month probably began with…

Read More...

The List: The Top 50 Barbecue Joints in Texas

Texas Monthly cover

Texas barbecue has no peer on earth.” That’s what I immodestly declared in 2013, when we published our fourth list of the fifty best barbecue joints in the state. We were right, of course, but I did wonder: Had we peaked? Was there nowhere to go but down? Four years later, the answer is clear….

Read More...

Parlez-Vous BBQ?

Le Havre, he was ready. It had been more than a year since the Paris native had first decided to take on a preposterous task—to open an authentic Texas barbecue joint in the haughtiest of the world’s gastronomic capitals—and now he was about to face perhaps his single greatest challenge: moving the Oyler Pit 700, a mammoth…

Read More...

Review: Brick’s Smoked Meats has strong opening

Plate of food

New barbecue restaurant in downtown Sarasota had official debut Tuesday A meat platter at Brick’s Smoked Meats includes St. Louis Ribs, USDA Prime Brisket, Jalapeno Cheddar Sausage and pulled pork. [Herald-Tribune staff photo / Thomas Bender] Source: Herald-Tribune

Read More...

Brick’s Smoked Meats Plans to Open Downtown

The new restaurant is billed as an homage to the cuisine of central Texas, with brisket, tacos and a bar that emphasizes bourbons and tequilas. Mark Gabrick of Brick’s Barbeque at the Sarasota Farmers Market in 2014 For real this time: Brick’s Smoked Meats is planning to open next month. Just not in the spot…

Read More...

Big Apple Barbecue Block Party 2017: See the Line Up

Whole hog being smoked with cigar in it's mouth

The Big Apple Barbecue Block Party — one of the nation’s premiere barbecue events — is slated to return to Madison Square Park on June 10 and 11. In celebration of the 15th year, the charity event benefitting the Madison Square Park Conservancy will host 15 pitmasters from nine different states this summer. The free event is…

Read More...

We Will Collaborate To Build
The Custom Grill of Your Dreams

Contact us today to bring your vision to life!