muthangya

I think North Texas bbq will leave you disappointed. Out of the chains that have been mentioned, Rudy's is great, but I'm not a fan of the others. I have tried Clark's & I think it's worth the drive.

If you're willing to leave North Texas, check out this article in Texas Monthly, http://www.texasmonthly.com/magazine/bbq. They compile a list of the best bbq places in Texas every five years & I think this issue for the 2008 listing just came out. They place they rated the best is called Snow's. Snow's is northwest of Austin & is only open one day (Saturday) a week. And their hours are 8am - noonish, or whenever they run out of food.

If I ever get to try it, I'll report back with my findings.

cu@9k

well so far ive had
1. Mesquite BBQ
2. Spring valley bbq
3. Dickey's BBQ

this is how i rate them...

1. mesquite
2.dickeys
3. spring valley

reason i choose mesquite is cuz they give you alot of meat...dickeys is stingy on their meat IMO

XHawkeye

Texas Monthly BBQ Link

Review of Big Daddy's Roadhouse in Lavon.

Texas Google Map of the BBQ

uwimage

Born in Texas grew up in North Carolina...I think I know a thing or two about BBQ

I prefer the vinegar, we usually smoke about 10 to 15 pork butts a year

Wildncrazy

I grew up on pork BBQ and vinegar sauce and I never liked BBQ. Then I moved to Texas and found beef and tomato based sauces. Now I like BBQ.

I can take a pulled pork occassionally but not often.

lonestarbuzz

snows is awesome. i used to drive up there a lot when i lived in san antonio.

RyanDL

Within the past year, I've been to both Black's and Kreuz' in Lockhart, Clark's in N. TX, Sonny Bryan's (not the original, though I've been there, too), and perhaps a handful of others.

Kreuz' is by far the best. Black's is second. Clark's is pretty good, but it's a bit of a drive; a non-S2K drive would make it marginally closer. Original Sonny Bryan's is quite good and it's nice to have it in our backyard.

Give Back Yard BBQ on upper Greenville Ave. a try. It's not bad. There's also Peggy Sue BBQ across from SMU off Hillcrest.

Ryan

cu@9k

I am a very big fan of beef brisket and ribs

muthangya

Anyone have any new bbq findings to report in North Texas? I recently have been visiting the bbq restaurant inside Whole Foods Market and it's been really good.

WFM does everything very well, but I was very surprised that their in-house bbq would be *that* good.

DFWs2k

We go to Feedstore BBQ a lot, it's in southlake, less than 10 minutes from where I work.

Great lunch deal.