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Here's the Top 10:


1. Burnt Bean Co., Seguin
2. LeRoy and Lewis Barbecue, Austin
3. Goldee’s Barbecue, Fort Worth
4. Redbird BBQ, Port Neches
5. GW’s BBQ, San Juan
6. InterStellar BBQ, Austin
7. Dayne’s Craft Barbecue, Aledo
8. La Vaca BBQ, Port Lavaca
9. Truth Barbeque, Houston
10. Evie Mae’s Pit Barbeque, Wolforth

leaving out Dallas was probably for a good reason

I don't think I remember Franklin BBQ in Austin.  I either don't know about it or it wasn't around then. 

I used to work in Seguin and I don't remember Burnt Bean Co. either.  I thought we wore out the local eateries pretty good and I'd have found that one, but who knows.  That was the main office and I was frequently off in Little Mexico, so maybe I wasn't as in the know about Seguin restaurants as I thought. 

I think it's mostly a fool's errand to rank BBQ joints across this entire state.  Too tall a task and too subjective, with too many that are too close.  I liked a lot of BBQ in TX.  I'm probably not enough of a food snob to make strong distinctions between them.  I tend to think in terms of places I like and places I don't.....more binary than rank-ordered.  

Franklin is "new" in the last 15 years or so, so you might have missed it.  It started as a food truck and then opened a brick and mortar.  It's excellent across the board, not a single weakness.

Burnt Bean is new in the last 3-5 years I think?  I went with a friend last year, it's great, but ranking it ahead of Franklin is pretty much just to be "edgy." 

says Burnt Bean opened in 2020

Sounds right.  I hadn't heard about it until 2023 I think.  Then last year a friend and I made the trip down to Seguin and also stopped off in Lockhart.  Burnt Bean was better than the old Lockhart Trifecta.