NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Nov 2002 05:18:37 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 Xref: usenet.INS.cwru.edu alt.food.barbecue:56593 Ale wrote: > LeavesA question for the group. > If you had a week to spend on a BBQ restaurant tour...where in the US would > you go? Feel free to visit a web site I put up a little over 4 years ago about a BBQ tour that my wife and I took: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~thc/bbqtour/ Every now and then I hear from someone who has stumbed across it. --THC ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tom Cormen Voice: (603) 646-2417 Associate Professor Fax: (603) 646-1672 Dept. of Computer Science Email: [email removed] Dartmouth College URL: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~thc/ 6211 Sudikoff Laboratory Hanover, NH 03755-3510 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Nov 2002 19:47:15 GMT Xref: usenet.INS.cwru.edu alt.food.barbecue:56610 Thomas C. wrote in message news:... > Ale wrote: If you had a week to spend on a BBQ restaurant tour...where in the US would you go? Goode Company BBQ in Houston, Texas serves some of the finest brisket, pork ribs, venison, duck, polish sausage, spicy sausage, ham, and chicken that I have ever eaten. The owner, Jim Goode, has won the 1st Prize in the brisket competition at the Houston Rodeo many times. His two bbq restaurants are recognized by the local food critics as THE #1 place to eat authentic Texas style bbq in the Houston area...and for good reasons. Even the side dishes are superb. His potato salad, spicy pinto beans, and coleslaw are exceptional. They include a large slice of his jalapeno cheese bread with every plate. The pecan pie is world-renown and was his grandmother's actual recipe. Although there are two bbq restaurants, go to the one on the 5500 block of Kirby Drive (near the southwest freeway). It is smaller but it is a museum of things Texana and worth the visit. The selection of beers is amazing. While you are there walk across the side street to his "Texas" store called the BBQ Hall of Flame. You will find an awesome selection of high quality bbq items, his spices, his bbq rubs, cookbooks, breads, all kinds of woods for bbq'ing, Texas souvenirs, not to mention a complete line of fine western clothing. You can even buy uncooked briskets and specialty beers. This store is a must-see for anyone interested in bbq or western-themed things from Texas. There are western antiques everywhere. The time to avoid the store is between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Cars are lined up on the streets to buy those pecan pies. A salesperson told me that they sell an average of 400-500 a day during that time period. The people in the cars just drive up in the parking lot and buy them while they are still sitting in their cars. Incredible. Any list of MUST-GO-VISIT bbq restuarants in the United States which does not include The Goode Company BBQ is by definition incomplete. Regards, Jim Bannerman
Ale wrote: LeavesA question for the group. If you had a week to spend on a BBQ restaurant tour...where in the US would you go? Where can you find the best BBQ concentration ( and some sightseeing and shopping for the old lady?!) Thanks for the input. Jorge Do it Yourself Central Texas BBQ Trail Now that you're better acquainted with the members of the legendary barbecue dynasties of Central Texas, we've created an annotated list of the best barbecue joints in the area so you can sample them yourself. Think of it as a Do It Yourself BBQ Tour. There's no need for travel agents or tour buses, just hop in the car with the map, the list, some friends, and your appetite! Give our best to the pit masters, and tell them the Chronicle sent you. 1. Cooper's BBQ 403 N. Main, Round Rock, 255-5638 The second generation of a Hill Country BBQ legend, Gary Cooper's been serving his family's style of barbecue in downtown Round Rock since 1985. 2. Louie Mueller Barbecue 206 W. Second, Taylor, 512/352-6206 The quality of meats served in this no frills downtown Taylor storefront has remained unchanged for more than 50 years. Savory meat jus with every order and a tangy potato salad round out the meal. 3. Rudy Mikeska's 300 W. Second, Taylor, 512/365-3722 The Taylor store is the cradle of the "first family" of Texas barbecue where they serve great meats and nontraditional sides dishes in a cafeteria-like setting. 4. Cross-Town Bar-B-Q 202 S. Ave. C, Elgin, 281-5594 Look for this place off the beaten path if you prefer your brisket, pork ribs, mutton, and all-beef sausage down home, greasy and full of flavor, smoked over a slow oak fire. 5. Southside Market & Barbecue 1212 U.S. 290 E., Elgin, 281-4650 This more-than-100-year-old sausage factory is one of the main reasons Elgin is known as the "sausage capital of Texas." Great varieties of sausage and $2 per pound brisket trimmings are a real treat, too. 6. Meyer's Elgin Smokehouse 188 U.S. 290 E., Elgin, 281-3331 The current generation of sausage-making Meyer brothers expanded the successful family sausage business in 1988 to include a casual restaurant where they serve smoked pork ribs, turkey breast, and brisket. 7. Kreuz Market 619 N. Colorado, Lockhart, 512/398-2361 Rick Schmidt carries on the family tradition in his big new building on Hwy. 183 S., where there's plenty of room for tour buses and regular customers alike. 8. Black's Barbecue 215 N. Main, Lockhart, 512/398-2712 Bragging rights in this longtime Lockhart mainstay are that Black's is the oldest barbecue restaurant around continually operated by the same family. Nationwide shipping available. 9. Smitty's Market 208 S. Commerce, Lockhart, 512/398-9344 This historic old building certainly qualifies as Texas barbecue hallowed ground, as it was home to the legendary Kreuz Market for years before Nina Schmidt Sells inherited it and opened her own store. 10. Luling City Market 633 East Davis, near US Hwy 183, Luling, 830/875-9019 One of City Market's claims to fame is that they don't have any forks in the restaurant. That's because their brisket is so fall-apart tender you'll want to feel how good it is. You buy all meats by the pound (or link) in the smokehouse in the back of the dining hall. 11. Fushak's Pit BBQ 920 Hwy. 80, San Marcos, 512/353-2713 Meats here are smoked over hickory in a rotisserie pit and emerge ultra-moist and juicy. Traditional side plus homemade banana pudding and pecan pie. 12. The Salt Lick 18300 FM 1826, Driftwood, 894-3117 Folks drive from all over Central Texas to relax among the picnic tables at the rustic outdoor pavillion and eat their barbecue family-style. 13. R.O.'s Outpost Hwy. 71 W. at Hazy Hills Dr. (17 miles west of Y in Oak Hill), Spicewood, 264-1169 Complete barbecue menu is available here as well as chicken fried steak and fried quail. No matter how much meat you eat, you must save room for the stellar pies. 14. Opie's Barbecue Hwy. 71 W. (20 miles past intersection w/ RR 620, turn right at gas station) beyond Spicewood, 830/693-8660 Choose pork chops, pork ribs, sausage, brisket, chicken, and sometimes cabrito from the 12-foot smoke pit, have it sauced, sit at the picnic tables and chow on down. 15. Pete Mesquite Bar-B-Que 2407 Hwy. 281 N., Marble Falls, 830/693-6531 Regularly voted the best barbecue in Burnet County, this place offers a tasty to-go menu for lake-bound boaters and picnic-goers, easy to grab from the drive-through window. 16. Inman's Ranch House Barbecue Hwy. 281 N. at Sixth St., Marble Falls, 830/693-2711 Affordable prices and good meat have kept the working man coming back here for over 35 years. 17. Inman's Kitchen 809 W. Young (Hwy. 71 W.), Llano, 915/247-5257 The treasured family recipe for turkey sausage is what originally put Inman's on the map, and it's still as good as it ever was. 18. Cooper's Barbecue 604 W. Young (Hwy. 71 W.), Llano, 915/247-5713 Still the most famous of all the Cooper's outlets, this joint is admired by deer hunters from all over the country who make an annual pilgrimage to Llano to hunt and eat their barbecue here. 19. Cooper's Old Time Pit Bar-B-Q Hwy. 87 S., Mason, 915/347-6897 The original outlet founded by George T. Cooper is still smokin' after all these years, successfully operated by Duard Dockal for nearly 20 years since the old man retired.
>If you had a week to spend on a BBQ restaurant tour...where in the US would >you go? For Pork: 1 King's BBQ No. 2, Petersburg, VA 2 King's BBQ No. 1, Petersburg, VA 3 Pete Jones Skylight BBQ, Ayden, NC 4 Cowling's BBQ, Waverly, VA 5 Chicharrone's Cuban, Key West 6 Meteor Smokehouse, Key West 7 Rendezvous BBQ, Memphis, TN 8 Big Daddy's BBQ, Jahnke Rd, Richmond, VA 9 Buzz&Ned's Ribs, Richmond, VA 10 Extra Billy's BBQ, Richmond, VA For Beef - head to Texas!!! Cap'n Ron CafeMojo