Webster-based Saloon Door Brewing recently expanded into Pearland with Saloon Door West at 1231 Broadway, the building that previously housed Bakfish Brewing. The new location opened in June and big plans are currently underway for its grand opening celebration next month. The new digs will sport a full kitchen led by executive chef Jason Hill, […]
Pizzitola’s Bar-B-Que at 1703 Shepherd, Houston’s oldest barbecue restaurant — and also named a Texas Treasure by the Texas Historical Commission — is celebrating an incredible 88 years of business the week of Monday, July 24. John and Leila Davis, an African-American husband and wife team, opened it in 1935 as Shepherd Drive Bar-B-Q at […]
After four long years, Texas Monthly has published a new list of the top 50 barbecue joints in the state. The process of whittling down hundreds of barbecue restaurants across the state to a list of 50 involved vetting by Texas Monthly barbecue columnist Daniel Vaughn and executive editor/food writer Patricia Sharpe, and visits by 32 […]
A good barbecued sausage is meaty, with a crisp, taut skin ready to burst with the slightest bite, releasing silky pockets of orange fat that explode in your mouth. Achieving the real deal at home takes a coarse meat grind, ice cold fat, plenty of black pepper and fragrant wood smoke. There are a host […]
Growing up in rural Missouri in the 1970s and ’80s, “barbecue” meant a backyard gathering, not a method of cooking. The only things “low” were the webbed aluminum lawn chairs and the Igloo cooler. The only things “slow” were the June bugs lollygagging against the screen door. Don’t get me wrong, there was also meat […]
