Dallas BBQ?

Someone wrote:
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> In article #1/1,
>   Someone wrote:
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> > Try Sonny Bryan's in the West End.  It doesn't have the atmosphere of
> > the original on Inwood but the beef's pretty damn good.
> > Todd Tinker
> >
> > James L. wrote:
> > >
> > > I am going to be in Dallas next weekend for a conference and wanted to
> > > know if anyone could suggest places - in the downtown area - where I
> > > could get some good BBQ'd brisket -- Texas style.
> >
>
> The best BBQ in TEXAS is in Austin.  We're about a 3 hour drive south of
> Dallas.  Try The Salt Lick and The Iron Works. C'mon down! ; )

Not that Texans are opinionated about BBQ........... Austin has some fair to middlin' BBQ places but they want you to sit in chairs and use plates and stuff. Kinda snooty. ;-)

If you really want to live, drive another hour and a half to San Antonio and we'll go out to Rudy's in Leon Springs. It can't really be called a restaurant. More like a meat market in a shed.

The counter line is literally an extension of the parking lot. No door, just walk in. The first thing that greets you is beer and soft drinks iced down in those old galvanized coolers. Walk up to the counter and the pit is 10 ft. in front of you. Order the meat you want by the pound. They weigh it and plop it down on a couple of sheets of white butcher paper and then toss a handful of white bread on top. None of that hippie wheat stuff here. I think they might give you some sauce if you really have to have some. If you want side dishes, you'll have to go to their grocery store next door and buy them. The inside tables are the ones under the tin roof on the deck. And yes there is a Rudy's in Austin, but it has real inside tables, air conditioned, fountain drinks and draft beer, and plates. Very upscale.

Of course the Promised Land of Texas BBQ is Lockhart. 3 of the top 10 joints in the state are there. Kruez Market is the Holy Shrine and has been in business since 1900. They're offended if you ask for sauce. "Good barbeque don't need no sauce." Black's BBQ has been run by the same family since 1932. LBJ had them cater a White House Garden party. I don't know if that speaks well of them or not. The new kid on the block is Chisolm Trail BBQ. Only around for 20 yrs.

Is there a town in Texas without a decent BBQ place?

Regards.
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Tyler Hopper

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>I am going to be in Dallas next weekend for a conference ...

Sonny Bryan's is the old standard, but a couple of others that are good are Dickeys at N. Central Expressway and Knox/Henderson, and Bakkers Ribs on Greenville, just north of Mockingbird Lane.  Colters is another good one scattered all over Dallas.

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Tyler H. wrote:
>If you really want to live, drive another hour and a half to San Antonio
>and we'll go out to Rudy's in Leon Springs. It can't really be called a
>restaurant. More like a meat market in a shed.

Rudy's does have atmosphere but the Q quality has declined significantly in the past few years.  The last three times I've gone I swore I was never going back.  I have given them three chances to get it together. The place is packed on the weekends, they must be cashing in on their reputation because the Q was not great, it was not even good.