After spending last year at home, we’re ready to gas up the car and go somewhere. BBQ Road Trip is a series where we take a day trip to visit barbecue spots outside of Dallas just in time for summer road trip season.
BBQ Road Trip: After spending last year at home, we’re ready to gas up the car and go somewhere. BBQ Road Trip is a series where we take a day trip to visit barbecue spots outside of Dallas, just in time for summer road trip season.
There’s a fair bit of patience required in food writing that most people may not realize. As hungry as we might be, we still need photos of whatever tasty fare we’re about to enjoy before we can dive in…
Wake up, sleepyheads. Since we were old enough to eat solid food, it was drilled into our heads that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Without getting all preachy on you, research shows that skipping breakfast encourages poor eating later in the day, while a solid breakfast…
It was a little more than two years ago when we first made our way to Royse City to check out Smoke Sessions Barbecue, where we found ourselves impressed with succulent barbecue that Chad and Jessica Sessions turned out from their tiny trailer. During that visit Chad let us in…
On walking into Seely’s Mill Barbecue, you’d be forgiven for thinking you’re in the wrong place. First, you’re in a hotel, the newly rebranded and remodeled Beeman Hotel on Central Expressway just south SMU Boulevard, formerly known as the Magnolia Park Cities. Second, there’s no actual signage announcing you’ve found…
Tucked under the burgeoning pile of craft barbecue spots in Texas are a fair number of old-school barbecue joints that still do a bustling business in their own neighborhoods. Many of these establishments have been around for ages, and have a devout following that doesn’t rely on a shiny Instagram…
There’s no denying the appeal of Costco. The warehouse store has legions of loyal customers who gladly hand over $60 a year (or more) for access to the retailer’s wide variety of merchandise. We get it. Where else can you buy a month’s worth of toilet paper, tires for your…
For a city of its size, Plano should have more barbecue options. Sure, we’re still fans of Lockhart’s in downtown, and Winners BBQ is still humming on Plano’s eastern side. But a quick Google search for Plano barbecue returns results that are overrun with chain options. Plano is home to…
The global pandemic has made life exceptionally difficult for restaurants, so we’re always pleased when a new one braves the uncertain economic waters to open its doors. Sugarfire Smoke House originally hails from St. Louis but opened near Five Points in Northeast Dallas in June. When we first heard of…
If we had to identify just one way the pandemic has hit us all, we’d guess it’s the warping of our sense of time. Days and weeks run together, months lurch onward, and we find the holidays just around the corner. Back in the spring, we heard of OAK’D Handcrafted…
Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. On first thought, a barbecue restaurant would be perfectly primed to switch to carryout-only business. Hell, some of our favorites started as little more than food trucks, so…
Allow us to play culinary cartographer for a moment. Your humble author thinks it is high time to carve off a portion of Fort Worth’s Southside Historic District and rename it the Barbecue District. Hear us out: Five years ago, Travis and Emma Heim parked their eponymous food truck next…
It was a year ago this month that 407 BBQ in Argyle moved down FM 407 to a new home. Gone was the single-wide trailer, now replaced with a large building and yet larger kitchen to accommodate the growing popularity of owner Bryan McLarty’s barbecue venture. When we first visited…
For Dallasites who relish Heim BBQ’s delicious smoky fare, but loathe driving all the way to Fort Worth to get it, we have some glorious news: Heim just announced plans to open a new location in Dallas this summer. Heim’s third location will occupy the former Mockingbird Diner spot at…
Dallas and barbecue seem to go hand-in-hand, so it should come as no surprise that a new barbecue concept plans to expand to our fair city. Sugarfire Smoke House originally hails from St. Louis but recently announced plans to expand to Dallas at 6750 Abrams Road, between Vickery Meadow and…
As you read this, Christmas is bearing down on all of us, a Yuletide freight train that doesn’t care if you’re still hunting for the perfect gifts for all of your friends and loved ones. Now, are any of those people on your list barbecue junkies like your humble author?…
It feels like an eternity ago when Pecan Lodge moved to Deep Ellum. Five and a half years is a long time in restaurant years, yet Pecan Lodge is still drawing a crowd, with the line in front of their Main Street digs rivaling the red neon Pegasus and the…
On the inside flap of the menu, Pappas Delta Blues Smokehouse lays out goals for its new Plano barbecue establishment. “We wanted to elevate the BBQ experience for Texans,” it reads. “No need to wait in line and eat off a plastic tray: Pappas Delta Blues Smokehouse offers the best…
You’d be forgiven for thinking of fall as that long-awaited party guest who shows up late then leaves early. The start of October still had temps in the high 90s, and Halloween week brought rain and some unseasonably cool weather with it. So when the clouds give way to sun…
Now in its sixth year, Smoked BBQ Festival has become one of the can’t-miss food festivals in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The pitmasters in attendance are a veritable who’s-who of barbecue, not just from our area, but from all across Texas. If we had any sense of shame, we’d be…
There’s nothing quite like the excitement of setting foot in a new restaurant for the first time. No matter the cuisine, hope shines most brightly in those first steps in the door, when the possibility of finding a new favorite is at its zenith. Alas, more often than not, there’s…
