Good Texas Barbecue???
hammer
barbecue.
There was a restauraunt in Dallas that had Wonderful Barbecure, Potato
Salad and Texas Popcorn (Fried Okra)
Any Ideas here in Atlanta?
Thanks,
Keith
icha...@intergate.net
If it aint' pig meat it ain't BBQ
Chip Brown
>barbecue.
>
>Any Ideas here in Atlanta?
About the closest to Peggy Sue's or Sonny Bryan's I've found is the beef at
Armadillo's, in the Gwinnett Place complex. It's good, but it's not like REAL
Texas beef brisket.
Pig meat's OK, but if you're raised on steer, there's nothin' better.
Mike Marler
>I'm a Texas Boy and have a real hankerin for some Good "TEXAS"
>barbecue.
Feeders on Chesire Bridge Road is alright and they have habanero barbecue
sauce. The only thing that I wish they really had is thick beef ribs like
the now defunct "Texas State Line" BBQ joint had.
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Karl Brendel
>Feeders on Chesire Bridge Road is alright and they have habanero barbecue
>sauce. The only thing that I wish they really had is thick beef ribs like
>the now defunct "Texas State Line" BBQ joint had.
Have you asked them for ribs like that? I thought they had had big beef ribs in the
past, but what they had might not be what you're looking for. (Items come and go on
their menu as customers demand/respond.)
Cheers-- --Karl
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hammer <klan...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>I'm a Texas Boy and have a real hankerin for some Good "TEXAS"
>barbecue.
>
>Salad and Texas Popcorn (Fried Okra)
You're not gonna like this one bit, but BBQ in Georgia is mostly pork.
Now I know of a few good places near my inlaw's place in Weatherford, but
that's about an hour West of Ft. Worth.
For here, my recomendations are:
Melear's in Fayetteville
(The owner Kenny is Chief Magistrate of
Fayette county.)
OB's in Henry County
Sweat's near Soperton
Ron Daniel & Nancy Kramer
>From: may...@netcom.com (HP/UX spoken here)
>Subject: Re: Good Texas Barbecue???
>Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 16:29:50 GMT
>In article <45hnme$6...@firehose.mindspring.com>,
>hammer <klan...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>>I'm a Texas Boy and have a real hankerin for some Good "TEXAS"
>>barbecue.
>>
>>There was a restauraunt in Dallas that had Wonderful Barbecure, Potato
>>Salad and Texas Popcorn (Fried Okra)
There are a couple of very popular places on the west side of town. Just
outside of downtown Austell on Hwy 78 (Bankhead) is a place called Wallace
BBQ. And also on Hwy 78 in downtown Douglasville is a place called
Hudson's BBQ. I frequent both places and highly recommend them. But I go
mostly for the pork!
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Chris Cheyney
>I'm a Texas Boy and have a real hankerin for some Good "TEXAS"
>barbecue.
Might I suggest The Salt Lick outside Austin in Driftwood? :-)
Perhaps Kreuz's Market in Lockhart would be a good suggestion as
well. That's where I'd go to get real Texas barbecue. :-)
As good barbecue goes, there's one place I really like in Atlanta,
and that's Durango, at the corner of Wieuca and Roswell Road in
Buckhead. There you'll find Texas Hill Country style barbecue,
smoked right (at least as well as you could find in Central Texas),
beans the way you'll expect them (without that sugary sweet sauce),
and pretty good sides (sweet potato fries are my favorite). They
even have a pretty good salsa to go with the chips if you order them.
As for sauces to annoint the barbecue with, there's the New Braunfels
style mustard sauce, the more traditional red sauce, and that really
runny stuff you find at some places. They have hot sauces to top it
off, but they always seem to be out of chipotle, which would seem an
insult since it's almost a staple food for some Texans. :-)
If you manage to survive through the dinner and make it to dessert, they
have a sopaipilla that's likely to make you wish you had saved some of
your dinner for a snack later. :-)
There was another place in Atlanta I thought was excellent, called Red Hot
and Blue, but they went out of business. Their pulled brisket was good
enough to satisfy any Texan and their sauces had some kick. They used
to be down the road from Durango on Roswell Road.
Other places that are passable if you're dying for barbecue are Williamson
Brothers in Marietta, Ribs Etc. on Roswell Road, and Spiced Right in
Lilburn. Williamson Brothers has too much smoke to water vapor, Ribs
Etc. just doesn't have enough smoke, and Spiced Right has too much water
vapor to smoke.
You can pretty much avoid Sonny's Barbecue altogether. If you haven't
tried it, you can find out for yourself, but I told you so. :-) Their
barbecue basically suffers from the same problems that Spiced Right's
barbecue does, which is that it turns out shocking pink. At least Spiced
Right understands how to make a good barbecue sauce, and they've got a
few with serious kick. Their sides aren't bad either.
Anyhow, that ought to get you pointed in the right direction, maybe.
At the worst, you could just hop in your car and drive to Lockhart,
Texas. It's only 18-20 hours away, but at least you'd be guaranteed
some great barbecue. After you have some, you won't mind eating it
off butcher paper. :-)
chris, ex-patriate of Austin, Texas
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