When Bodacious Bar-BQ briefly goes up the shutters, a Sunbird goes up – Texas Month-to-month

Craft Barbecue takes over the suburbs of Texas, says Texas Highways magazine, which rolled through Cleburne, Kennedale and Grand Prairie.

Kareem El-Ghayesh is from Cairo, Egypt now serves his own grill brand at pop-ups in Austin. He said learning the craft from Texas pitmasters is “like learning basketball from LeBron James”.

One of the best barbecue areas in the country is closed indefinitely:

When pitmaster Bryan Bingham leaves Longview’s legendary Bodacious on Mobberly to start his own grill business, the long-standing restaurant temporarily closes its doors to make repairs and updates to its building. https://t.co/THa07i7H2c

– Longview News-Journal (@newsjournal) May 5, 2021

Former Bodacious Pitmaster Bryan Bingham will soon open its own grill concept, Sunbird Barbecue, in Longview.

Port Lavacas LaVaca BBQ, The company has just opened a second location in Bay City and is already planning a third location in Victoria.

The grill at Thorndale Meat Market Reason enough to visit, but Pitmaster Trey Felton has also experimented with cold-smoked, dry-aged steaks.

Valentina’s Tex-Mex BBQ leaves Austin for Buda:

Raf Robinson, co-founder of SLAB BBQ in Austin, describes his restaurant as “a grill Sammich restaurant that brings grill flavors from the United States and serves it up with a little hip-hop swag”.

John Bates from Interstellar BBQ Outside Cedar Park, several other restaurateurs spoke to the Austin statesman about the challenge of finding people to work in their restaurants.

La Barbecue in Austin has left the Quickie Pickie location and is now in its own building just a few blocks east.

A new joint in Austin gets well-deserved attention:

Chef Damien Brockway’s interpretation of the genre gives a new context to its place in the country’s intricate culinary history.https: //t.co/wFAODkK23U

– austin_monthly (@Austin_Monthly) May 6, 2021

San Antonio Express-News restaurant critic Mike Sutter has a new appreciation for lean brisket after visiting Burnt Bean Co. in Seguin.

A former employee of Bill Miller Bar-BQ wrote about what it was like to work for the chain. “If you’re not afraid to go home and smell like fat, chicken and pickles, this might be for you,” she said.

Bill Miller Bar-BQ has proposed relocating its headquarterswho have been in downtown San Antonio for fifty years, to the west of the city.

The daytripper finally made it to Lexington to try Snow’s BBQ:

The Dallas Observer raved about the pork ribs at D Jackson BBQ in Oak Cliff.

A new food truck in Irving, Bout Tyme BBQ, serves St. Louis-style grilled dishes such as prime ribs, as well as some Texas favorites.

It’s way up on Lavon Lake But the DFW section has a legitimate option for Filipino-style lechón.

Move on, Taco Tuesday. It’s Torta Thursday every week at the BBQ on the Brazos in Cresson.

Smokey Joe’s Dallas BBQ Moves into the Spotlight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQcAIGEOtKo

I originally wrote this Texas Barbecue Style Guide for Thrillist six years ago and I recently updated it.

Food Network has published an itinerary for the “Ultimate Texas Barbecue Tour” and no surprises.

Houston names a new poll the best grill town in America. Houstonians celebrated the news until they found Los Angeles ranked second.

JC Reid found the Cheers of Texas Barbecue, and it is in Katy that Brett’s BBQ Shop welcomes guests back to the restaurant.

The cost of transportation, processing and feed because cows and pigs rise dramatically. The meat prices? They do not go under:

Michael Symon is closed Most of his restaurants in Cleveland, except for Mabel’s BBQ. Now he will add a second Mabel location in Woodmere east of Cleveland.

Arkansas is getting a grilling route. The 25 joints on the list will be announced this summer.

“I forced myself to cook with wood” says Edward Reavis, who has now improved his barbecue game as a pitmaster at the Money Muscle BBQ in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Barbecue is positively contagious in Australia: