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Topic: Texas Monthly Texas Top 50 BBQ List is out

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Cincydawg

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Re: Texas Monthly Texas Top 50 BBQ List is out
« Reply #14 on: July 06, 2025, 10:45:47 AM »
We've been to a nearby Persian restaurant about six times.  One time, on Mother's Day, the service was bad enough we resolved not to return, but we did a few months later give them another chance and the service was fine.  It gets VERY noisy at dinner, it's very popular.

There is another Persian place a block away that I prefer, we're going there in an hour for brunch.  It doesn't get nearly as busy, or noisy, and I prefer the food, my wife prefers the first place.

Anyway, I used to be kind of attuned to "rankings" and obviously these days I view them a bit askance.  I THINK any place in the top ten or so is going to be roughly as good as any of the others.
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Re: Texas Monthly Texas Top 50 BBQ List is out
« Reply #15 on: July 06, 2025, 02:52:19 PM »
If you're saying there's no point to any ranking, well, I guess.

Except that it drives business, which is a good thing.

Except that it also sometimes creates super-long lines at previously undiscovered gems like Interstellar which is about 3 minutes down the road from my house and where I could always get good BBQ quickly and easily and now all the dirty unwashed huddled masses want to wait in 4-hour lines, which is a bad thing (for me).

So there you have it.  The rankings are pointless and/or good and/or bad.

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Re: Texas Monthly Texas Top 50 BBQ List is out
« Reply #16 on: July 06, 2025, 05:03:07 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on May 27, 2025, 12:04:20 PM
There are a couple good places in Dallas proper, but nothing Top 10 worthy IMO.  Goldee's in Fort Worth is genuinely good and worthy of Top 10, it's just not better than Franklin.  And I've heard good things about Dayne's in Fort Worth-adjacent Aledo.
Is Goldee's only open on Fridays and Saturdays? Google Maps says it doesn't open until 11 a.m. Friday.
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Re: Texas Monthly Texas Top 50 BBQ List is out
« Reply #17 on: July 06, 2025, 05:08:12 PM »
Quote from: CWSooner on July 06, 2025, 05:03:07 PM
Is Goldee's only open on Fridays and Saturdays? Google Maps says it doesn't open until 11 a.m. Friday.
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 11 AM until sold-out.  I'd imagine they're long since sold out for today, so they won't be open again until Friday.
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Re: Texas Monthly Texas Top 50 BBQ List is out
« Reply #18 on: July 06, 2025, 05:42:21 PM »
I guess I'd prefer just a piece on "unknown gems" to rankings of places everyone knows about and can form their own opinions.

And yeah, I generally disdain rankings because they so often are misused.  The wine "rankings" really got me started, or stopped.

I hate that someone chooses #1 over #5 because of someone else's ranking, and opinion.

If the BBQ is really good, it's really good, enough said.  If some "expert" thinks it's maybe slightly better at A vs B, well foosh.
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Re: Texas Monthly Texas Top 50 BBQ List is out
« Reply #19 on: July 06, 2025, 06:59:38 PM »
It doesn't bother me, I'll try them all if/when I'm nearby.

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Re: Texas Monthly Texas Top 50 BBQ List is out
« Reply #20 on: July 06, 2025, 08:26:36 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on July 06, 2025, 05:08:12 PM
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 11 AM until sold-out.  I'd imagine they're long since sold out for today, so they won't be open again until Friday.
Thanks!

I wish that one of the ranked ones was in north Dallas. My sister lives in Van Alstyne and I owe her a visit.
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Re: Texas Monthly Texas Top 50 BBQ List is out
« Reply #21 on: July 06, 2025, 08:43:24 PM »
north Dallas?? thats 17 miles north of McKinney

I've played the bridges Golf course up there, nice place
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Re: Texas Monthly Texas Top 50 BBQ List is out
« Reply #22 on: Today at 07:46:33 AM »
So,  the list is "top 50" in Texas.  Does that mean someone dined at every BBQ spot in Texas several times so as to make an assessment?

I wouldn't mind that job.  I'd guess there are over a thousand spots that could be considered "Texas BBQ", plus others that are hybrids or feature other types.

One thing I notice in flight magazines (not so much any more) are lists of "top doctors in X in city Y".  They really are paid ads, you get on the list by paying money.  There is no credible way in my view to come up with a real list of "top 25 doctors in oncology in city X" other than asking them to pay.
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Re: Texas Monthly Texas Top 50 BBQ List is out
« Reply #23 on: Today at 08:34:16 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on Today at 07:46:33 AM
So,  the list is "top 50" in Texas.  Does that mean someone dined at every BBQ spot in Texas several times so as to make an assessment?

I wouldn't mind that job.  I'd guess there are over a thousand spots that could be considered "Texas BBQ", plus others that are hybrids or feature other types.

One thing I notice in flight magazines (not so much any more) are lists of "top doctors in X in city Y".  They really are paid ads, you get on the list by paying money.  There is no credible way in my view to come up with a real list of "top 25 doctors in oncology in city X" other than asking them to pay.

Yup.  Daniel Vaughn, the Texas Monthly BBQ editor, and his staff, visit hundreds of restaurants, multiple times each.  


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhVgDmbma_c&t=23s

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Re: Texas Monthly Texas Top 50 BBQ List is out
« Reply #24 on: Today at 09:29:03 AM »
Quote from: CWSooner on July 06, 2025, 08:26:36 PM
Thanks!

I wish that one of the ranked ones was in north Dallas. My sister lives in Van Alstyne and I owe her a visit.

By chance I just happen to know where that is and have been a couple of times.  My wife's grandfather was born there, and so had his funeral and burial there, and her grandmother was later buried next to him there.  
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Re: Texas Monthly Texas Top 50 BBQ List is out
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Re: Texas Monthly Texas Top 50 BBQ List is out
« Reply #26 on: Today at 11:36:20 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on Today at 08:34:16 AM
Yup.  Daniel Vaughn, the Texas Monthly BBQ editor, and his staff, visit hundreds of restaurants, multiple times each. 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhVgDmbma_c&t=23s


So they say.  I bet they send someone in the area to scope it out and report.  Maybe said local goes twice.  Really, I don't believe these things.
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Re: Texas Monthly Texas Top 50 BBQ List is out
« Reply #27 on: Today at 11:44:01 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on Today at 11:36:20 AM
So they say.  I bet they send someone in the area to scope it out and report.  Maybe said local goes twice.  Really, I don't believe these things.
What a weird thing to doubt.

Vaughn is all over the place.  This is his full-time job.  Everyone in Texas BBQ circles knows that this is how it works.  And even many years later after we sold our BBQ restaurant, my family still knows people in the business.

I guess you don't have to believe what's widely reported in articles and interviews, and you don't even have to take my personal word for it.

But if you don't, then you're really no different than MDot, just ignoring actual news sources and making up shit on your own.

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