OAK’D Handcrafted BBQ Delivers on Central Texas Barbecue (And So Much More)

If we had to identify just one way the pandemic has hit us all, we’d guess it’s the warping of our sense of time.

Days and weeks run together, months lurch onward, and we find the holidays just around the corner. Back in the spring, we heard of OAK’D Handcrafted BBQ, a planned barbecue restaurant coming to Dallas. The best-laid plans were often foiled by COVID-19, and OAK’D was no exception; the planned summer opening date kept sliding further down the calendar.

Combined with our lack of temporal awareness (do you even quarantine if you don’t ask Alexa what day it is once a week?), we’d lost track of OAK’D, until news came that the restaurant would finally open the first week of November. The official first day was Nov. 6, and shortly thereafter, we grabbed our masks and headed over for a look.