Lockhart, Texas has been arguing about who makes the best barbecue in the state since before most of Dallas’s restaurants existed. The town earned the designation “Barbecue Capital of Texas” from the state legislature, and the Black family has been part of that argument for generations. Terry Black learned the craft there, passed it down, and in 2014 his sons Mark and Mike opened the first Terry Black’s Barbecue in Austin — reportedly not without a cease-and-desist letter and a family name dispute along the way, the kind of origin story that only makes sense in Texas barbecue. Five years later, in 2019, the brothers brought the operation to Dallas, into a 10,000-square-foot space in Deep Ellum, and it’s been one of the most consistently busy barbecue rooms in the city ever since.
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