BBQ Restaurant

[SaltyShaw]

Dan's BBQ Express in Lake Chuck!! Place is the best!!

[Big Kahunaz]

Originally Posted by SaltyShaw

Dan's BBQ Express in Lake Chuck!! Place is the best!!

....you ain't had real BBQ then.

To any of you that fish Toledo on the Texas side...maybe you can chime in on my favorite for ribs....hell...it's all good: Hemphill BBQ. This guy has the old school wood smoker on a rotisserie in an huge iron pit that is hand cranked. This guy knows his how to cook to the T on that thing and his rubs are the TITS. Don't even need BBQ sauce.

If you haven't been and you're up that way.

you can check them out on facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/HEMPHI...499919?sk=wall

They r located off Old Sabine Town Road just off 87.

[weedeater]

Originally Posted by Big Kahunaz

....you ain't had real BBQ then.

To any of you that fish Toledo on the Texas side...maybe you can chime in on my favorite for ribs....hell...it's all good: Hemphill BBQ. This guy has the old school wood smoker on a rotisserie in an huge iron pit that is hand cranked. This guy knows his how to cook to the T on that thing and his rubs are the TITS. Don't even need BBQ sauce.

If you haven't been and you're up that way.

you can check them out on facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/HEMPHI...499919?sk=wall

They r located off Old Sabine Town Road just off 87.

got one there called ''Two Doors'' I belive, its alrite

[buoy37]

If your serious about making a trip to Texas to tour our BBQ restaurants and markets, you have to purchase this book by Robb Walsh:

http://www.robbwalsh.com/books/book5/

Robb Walsh has done the homework and road work. The book is an excellent tool to get an idea of how it should really be done.

In my travels, the best BBQ I have tasted has been in Lockhart, TX. My two favorite stops in Lockhart are Smitty's Market and Black's BBQ. The sausage at Smitty's is insanely good. The beef at Black's is the best I have ever had from a food establishment. My son ordered a beef rib plate at Black's and the lady behind the counter told him that they only had one beef rib left. It was the size of a football and cost me $16.00 by itself. My wife is not a fan of smoked sausage. She took one bite of the sausage at Smitty's and finished a whole link by herself.

http://www.smittysmarket.com/

http://www.blacksbbq.com/

My .02 opinion, if the pit smoking the meat is automated, the meat will be boring and bland. Human interaction is a must to make quality BBQ. The closer you get to the taste of backyard BBQ, the better.

DO NOT SOAK YOUR MEAT IN SAUCE!!!!! If your meat is cooked right, sauce won't be necessary.

[buoy37]

Originally Posted by buoy37

My son ordered a beef rib plate at Black's and the lady behind the counter told him that they only had one beef rib left. It was the size of a football and cost me $16.00 by itself.

Here is the rib.......

[Is it October Yet]

Thanks buoy37. Just ordered the book. Lockhart was the one town I already knew would be one of my stops. After I read the book I'm going to pan my route. Plan to do Texas. Then Memphis and the Carolinas next year or later this year.

[ski]

Try the links at City Meat Market in Giddings Tx.

[LPfishnTIM]

I think voodoo bbq sucks, Sonny's bbq has good, pulled brisket and there sauce is good, everything else there sucks especially there ribs! TEXAS DE BRAZILLE isn't a bbq place (Technically) , but I like there meat!

[fishinpox]

Hoggys Columbus Ohio .... Pulled pork is the shizzzzz

[weedeater]

If you want BBQ with no sauce and ever head to San Antonio go to Lockhart. I have eaten at Kreuz Market but they say Blacks and Smittys is just as good and if you belive in no sauce then then thats the places since you cant even get sause at these places. When you go in to order they pull meat off the pit and cut and weigh in front of you then you eat off butcher paper, really worth a stop.

[stardot]

My pal Tom Shockley suggested I weigh-in here, since I have been cooking and chasin' bar-b-que since I was a baby. My favorites are:

1. Big Bob Gibson's Bar-B-Que in Decatur, Alabama. They been there since 1925, and have won EVERY Bar-B-Que Championship including American Royal, Jack Daniels, Memphis in May, and many more, multiple times. My Mom worked there when I was a kid, and 20 years later their head cook was my next door neighbor. Freaking scary good Bar-B-Que.

2. Wilber's Bar-B-Que in Goldsboro, North Carolina. OMG is that a great place. Wood stacked high out back, friendly help, and awesome food. Top notch. All the extras are great too.

3. Tommy's Bar-B-Que in Ocala, Florida. Dude... it is awesome. Great food, good prices, and a waitress that hasn't shut her mouth since the 70's. Try it, be sure and try the Brunswick Stew.

4. Pappas Ranch House, Highway 54, Pasco County Florida. Best Bar-B-Que I have found anywhere around Tampa. Great food, great prices.

Sad to say I don't know 5 GREAT places, but here's a #5 that's worth the $$

5. Home Team Bar-B-Que in Charleston, S.C. Great pulled pork samich and get you some of the mustard flavored mac-and-cheese! Collards were off the hook, too.

There's BigMike's Top 5 places in the USA.