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The Power Five => Big XII => Topic started by: utee94 on May 27, 2025, 11:22:55 AM
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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
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Notable omission from the top 10, is Franklin BBQ, in Austin.
I've had 1,2,3,6 and 9, and Franklin is better than all of them.
But these days this list is probably more about being edgy, than it is about being right. They also use it to drive traffic to new or underrated places, and the truth is that Franklin is going to pack the crowds in, regardless.
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leaving out Dallas was probably for a good reason
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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.
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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.
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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."
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says Burnt Bean opened in 2020
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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.