I’m a bit obsessed with Texas barbecue, or BBQ, depending on your personal preference, and have written about it quite a bit. Over the almost six years that I’ve lived in Austin, I’ve visited many of the best BBQ pits in the state ranging from Salt Lick to Smitty’s to the back entrance of the Continental Club on South Congress.
Over the past year, I’ve eaten at and written about BBQ tours in Lockhart, fancy BBQ at Lamberts, filling up before wine tasting at Opie’s, Wyatt McSpadden’s Texas BBQ book, a …

Adam lives in East Austin, a neighborhood that is predominately Mexican-American.
As he headed out to join me downtown on New Years Eve, he was held up by a pickup truck blocking his driveway. The truck belonged to a Spanish-speaking man named Cristino, who asked permission to cut some of the Agave plant on the side of the house to make Barbacoa de Chivo, or barbecued baby goat.
Cristino offered a plate of food in exchange for part of the plant and Adam agreed even though at the time, he had no …

Snow’s Recipe for the Best BBQ in Texas

A heaping scoop of love, respect, family, and tradition
Pitmaster Tootsie Tomanetz has been smoking meat for over 40 years in Giddings and Lexington. Owner Kerry Bexley has known Tootsie his whole life (he is in his 40s, she in her 70s). Kerry and Tootsie opened Snow’s in 2003 to continue the longstanding tradition of serving BBQ in the town on Saturday mornings, right before the weekly cattle auction down the street.
Drizzle liberally with tasty morsels of perfectly cooked meat
BBQ of course, is about …

Christine is the only person I know who has been a vegetarian her entire life. Where did she want to eat for her first meal in Austin after getting off the plane from New York? Lamberts.
Lamberts’ tagline is “Fancy Barbecue” and that’s exactly what it is.
What’s great about the place is that it marries style with substance and the food definitely comes first. It opened in 2006 after the owners spent two years restoring it to the way it was in the 1870s when it was Austin’s first general store.
Located …

You know House Park Bar-B-Q? It’s the shack next to Shoal Creek located on 12th near Lamar. You might recognize the famous sign, “Need No Teef to Eat My Beef” and wondered like I did about the history of the place and if the meat is really that tender.

I stopped by for an early lunch yesterday after a meeting in the area and was one of the first patrons of the day. House Park is open for lunch only on weekdays (11 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.). I love a place …