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by | October 8, 2026 · 3:28 pm

Congratulations to Goldee’s on Their Michelin Star

On the southeast edge of Fort Worth, near Kennedale, on a stretch of Dick Price Road that most Dallasites could not find without a map, sits a small barbecue joint with a red wall, a few smokers and a line that starts forming well before the doors open. As of this week, it is also the first restaurant in Fort Worth history to earn a Michelin star.

Goldee’s Bar-B-Q had already been a two-time Bib Gourmand. On October 8 the inspectors bumped it up to one star, writing that it is absolutely worth the hours-long wait in the Texas sun.

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by | October 6, 2026 · 12:39 pm

The Brisket-Stuffed Jalapeño That Made Hutchins BBQ Famous

At this very moment, somebody in a Hutchins BBQ kitchen is probably hollowing out a very large jalapeño.

That pepper has a big day ahead. It’s about to be stuffed with chopped brisket and cream cheese, wrapped in thick-cut bacon and sent to the smoker. At Hutchins BBQ, they call it the Texas Twinkie, and on Friday, October 16, the restaurant celebrates it with its fourth annual National Texas Twinkie Day.

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by | September 15, 2026 · 11:52 am

Beef Lounge Is Back at Goldee’s Wednesday — And It Might Be the Last Pop-Up

We wrote about Jonny Butch back in May, before most people in Dallas-Fort Worth had heard his name. If you missed it, here’s the short version: Butch works the pits at Goldee’s Barbecue in Fort Worth, the place Texas Monthly has ranked number one in the state and that Food & Wine put among the best new chef programs in America in 2024. Before that, he cooked at Blue Hill at Stone Barns in New York and staged at Noma in Copenhagen. His resume reads like two careers stitched together — fine dining at the highest level, then a deliberate turn toward the oldest, most honest version of Texas barbecue he could find.

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by | August 21, 2026 · 11:36 am

Smokey John’s Hits 50, and the Reaves Family is Still Cooking

Fifty years ago, John Reaves wasn’t running a restaurant. He was running a roofing and construction business, and smoking turkeys and hams in his backyard as thank-you gifts for clients. The gifts got so popular he ran out of room and started storing the extras in his mother-in-law’s bathtub. A friend eventually told him he needed to just open a restaurant. In 1976, he did.

Smokey John’s Bar-B-Que and Home Cooking is still standing at 1820 W. Mockingbird Lane, and this year the family is marking half a century in business. On August 29, the restaurant is opening its parking lot and dining room for a free block party, capping a Customer Appreciation Week that runs August 24 through 29. Frost Bank is presenting the event, with support from the Mark Cuban Heroes Center and the Dallas Stars Foundation.

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by | August 20, 2026 · 12:53 pm

Twelve Years In, Micklethwait Craft Meats Finally Has Room to Breathe 

The smoke gets you before the building does. Turn onto Springdale Road in East Austin on a weekend morning and it’s already in the air, oak and rendered fat drifting out over the parking lot before the line even comes into view. That smell has hung over this part of the city since 2012, first out of a trailer parked in a lot on Rosewood Avenue, now out of a building that used to be a church.

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by | August 17, 2026 · 3:24 pm

Inside the Old Cat City Grill Space: Enchiladas Meets Barbecue

The building at 1208 W. Magnolia Ave. spent years as Cat City Grill. It’s now home to Mary Perez’s Enchiladas ¡Olé! and her barbecue spinoff, Holy Cue, sharing one kitchen and one dining room for the first time.

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by | August 4, 2026 · 6:07 pm

Kreuz Market: Lockhart’s Century-Old Barbecue Institution, Explained

Kreuz Market sits in Lockhart, a town of roughly 15,000 people about thirty minutes southeast of Austin that has somehow earned the unofficial title of Barbecue Capital of Texas. The market’s own history stretches back to 1875, when Jesse Swearingen opened the town’s first meat market. Charles Kreuz Sr. bought it in 1900 and put his name on it, and by 1948 the business had passed to a longtime butcher named Edgar Schmidt, whom everyone called Smitty.

For decades under Smitty and later his sons, Kreuz Market did one thing and did it without apology: meat smoked over post oak, sliced and served on butcher paper, no sauce, no forks, no sides beyond crackers, pickles, and onions.

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by | July 22, 2026 · 11:43 am

Inside Strouderosa BBQ, East Dallas’s Quiet Barbecue Standout

Strouderosa BBQ started with a salsa recipe, not a smoker. Back in 2018, the founder was helping a friend run the iBBQ 4U food truck when he started experimenting with a Texas barbecue sauce that had a little more kick than what he’d grown up on. The samples went over well enough that he started canning it and handing it out to anyone who asked for more. That could have stayed a hobby indefinitely, but in January 2020 he was furloughed from his day job, and instead of waiting things out, he leaned all the way into the smoker.

What began as holiday meals for family turned into a Meals of the Week program, then catering, then a full storefront in the Lake Highlands corridor of East Dallas at 9090 Skillman Street.

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