The state of Texas has a brand new greatest barbecue joint. Burnt Bean Co. in Seguin, a brief drive east of San Antonio, has taken the highest spot in Texas Month-to-month’s new record of the 50 Greatest Barbecue Joints in Texas. Two different Alamo Metropolis eating places — Reese Bros. Barbecue and 2M Smokehouse made the highest 50.
The glory is the cherry on high of an already stellar 12 months. Pitmasters David Kirkland and Ernest Servantes, who have been nominated for the CultureMap San Antonio’s 2025 Chef of the Yr, have been drawing popularity of a menu impressed by South Central Texas culinary traditions. In November 2024, it was the one Alamo Metropolis exurb to make it to Michelin’s first Texas information.
Right here’s the brand new high 10, so as:
1. Burnt Bean Co. (Seguin)2. LeRoy and Lewis Barbecue (Austin)3. Goldee’s Barbecue (Fort Price)4. Redbird BBQ* (Port Neches, close to Beaumont)5. GW’s BBQ* (San Juan Texas within the Rio Grande Valley)6. InterStellar BBQ (Austin)7. Dayne’s Craft Barbecue* (Aledo, close to Fort Price)8. LaVaca BBQ* (Port Lavaca)9. Fact BBQ (Houston)10. Evie Mae’s Pit Barbeque (Wolfforth, close to Lubbock)
Printed Tuesday, Could 27, Texas Month-to-month’s new record is the newest replace to its quadrennial rating of Texas’ greatest locations for barbecue. Texas Month-to-month presents the record as a ranked high 10 with the remaining 40 restaurant listed alphabetically by metropolis. An extra 50 eating places earn honorable mentions.
To compile the record, the journal visited 319 eating places, together with greater than 100 personally visited by barbecue editor Daniel Vaughn in January and February, he writes within the record’s introductory essay.
The 4 newcomers to the highest 10 are marked with an asterisk to make them somewhat simpler to identify. In comparison with 2021, Burnt Bean Co. strikes up from No. 4 to No. 1, adopted by LeRoy & Lewis, which ranked No. 5 in 2021. Goldee’s, ranked No. 1 in 2021, drops two spots, and InterStellar strikes from No. 2 to No. 6. Fact and Evie Mae’s are the one eating places to make the highest 10 in 2017, 2021, and 2025, a nod to their constant excellence.
Conversely, each Snow’s BBQ (Lexington) and Franklin Barbecue (Austin) dropped from the highest 10 to the second 40 for the primary time. In 2021, Snow’s ranked No. 9 and Franklin ranked No. 7. Each eating places have ranked No. 1 beforehand, Snow’s in 2008 and 2017 and Franklin in 2013. Cattleack Barbecue (Dallas) and Panther Metropolis BBQ (Fort Price) additionally dropped out of the highest 10 however remained within the high 50.
Notably, solely two of the barbecue eating places to obtain a Michelin star — LeRoy & Lewis and InterStellar — made the highest 10, however CorkScrew BBQ (Spring) and La Barbecue (Austin) are each within the high 50. Native spot Barbecue Station, which obtained a Advisable designation from Michelin, was not on the record.
The San Antonio space has held regular for the reason that 2021 version of the record. Whereas 2M Smokehouse was the one native restaurant to stay on the record, Alamo Metropolis saved its three space slots, including Reese Bros Barbecue to the rankings. The San Antonio location of Houston-owned Pinkerton’s misplaced its high 50 spot, and 2021 honorable mentions Smoke Shack and South BBQ & Kitchen have been nowhere to be seen.
As for CultureMap’s predictions, we precisely recognized seven of the highest 10, and all 13 eating places we spotlighted made the highest 50. We’ll take it.
