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East Texas
Hickory, chopped beef, sweet sauce.
Joints in East Texas (24)
- Big Boy's BBQ Trailer Rental
- Bodacious Bar-B-QEast Texas hickory done right. Multiple Tyler locations; the Loop spot is the original.
- Bodacious BAR-B-Q
- Bodacious Barbeque
- Boxcar BBQ
- Doc's BBQ
- Fargo's Pit BBQCollege Station / Bryan corridor. Worth the drive from Houston.
- Helberg BarbecueThe Waco upstart. Burnt-end mac & cheese; blends Texas + KC styles.
- Holmes Smokehouse
- IN N Out Daiquiri
- Jackson Road House
- Mike's Barbeque House
- Miller's SmokehouseBelton family operation a few miles off I-35. Brisket, jalapeño-cheese sausage, and chocolate-cobbler banana pud.
- Mimsy's Craft Barbecue & Steakhouse
- Papa's Pit & More
- PitMaster East Texas Hickory Smoked BBQ
- Schoepf's Old Time Pit Bar-B-QueBelton classic on the I-35 corridor. Cafeteria-style, big plates, a stop on every Killeen-to-Austin drive.
- Smitty's Bar-B-Q
- Snow's BBQOpen one day a week. Tootsie has been at it since the '60s. A pilgrimage.
- Pecan Orchard BBQLexington's other Saturday-only spot, a 5-mile detour from Snow's. Texas Monthly Top-50-adjacent and worth it.
- Stanley's Famous Pit BBQFamous "Brother-in-Law" sandwich: chopped beef, hot link, smoked sausage.
- Stringer's Lufkin Bar B Q
- The Garrison BBQ Spot
- Tyson's BBQEast Texas hickory style. Sweet sauce. The way granddaddy made it.