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Your A-List: Best Barbecue
Last year, when Texas Monthly crowned a tiny smokehouse in Lexington as serving the best barbecue in a barbecue-crazy state, the pilgrimages from Austin and elsewhere clogged the highways. It settled nothing. Every Central Texas town, it seems, is a battleground for barbecue, with competing smokers facing off like gunfighters.
It barely beat out The Salt Lick, which has served as a rural mecca in Driftwood for years. The addition of locations in Round Rock and at the Austin-Bergstrom Airport — and for a while on Loop 360 — only increased its popularity. It smoked out 20 percent of the vote.
Cooper’s in Llano and New Braunfels, Rudy’s at multiple Texas-area locations and Kreuz Market in Lockhart virtually tied at 9 to 10 percent.
Grouping around 4 to 5 percent of the vote were Smitty’s, Luling City Market, Artz Rib House and Black’s. Taking 3 percent or less were Iron Works, Green Mesquite, Snow’s, Chisholm Trail, Stubb’s and Buster’s.
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By LT
October 2, 2009 4:43 PM | Link to this
You must have not tried Red, Hot and Blue.
It is the best in Texas!