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by Steven Doyle | October 28, 2026 · 11:31 am

After 31 Years, Longoria’s BBQ in Everman Has Turned Out the Lights

David Longoria announced it the way he ran the place, with no fuss. “HELLO, we are closing BBQ shop,” he posted last Thursday. Friday was the last day.

Longoria’s BBQ, the corrugated-metal joint at 100 Christopher Drive on the Everman edge of south Fort Worth, is closed after 31 years. In his goodbye post, David listed what the shop had earned: a dozen magazine stories, two spots on the most famous Top 50 barbecue list in Texas, and a Travel Channel episode. He wrote that he was “closing the doors and cutting the light one last time.”

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by Steven Doyle | October 23, 2026 · 11:04 am

Great Dallas Restaurants That Deserve More Attention: Off the Bone Barbeque

Dallas has a habit of chasing the newest restaurant in town. Meanwhile, some of the best cooking in the city happens year after year in places that rarely make the hot lists. This column is for those restaurants.

We are starting with Off the Bone Barbeque, a family-run Dallas barbecue joint in the Cedars that has been smoking ribs out of an old gas station since 2008.

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by Steven Doyle | 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 Steven Doyle | 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 Steven Doyle | 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 Steven Doyle | 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 Steven Doyle | 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 Steven Doyle | 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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