In case you missed it, Texas Monthly's new Top 50 list of the best BBQ joints in the state is at the end of this post. The magazine will reveal its Top 4 on Thursday. Why only 4? We're hearing No. 5 had consistency problems and was dropped at the last minute.
Now, for some Posse reaction to the new Top 50:
-- The most interesting omission was Vera's Backyard Bar-B-Que in Brownsville. New Texas Monthly BBQ editor Daniel Vaughn put Vera's in his Top 5 in the state in his book, The Prophets of Smoked Meat. But maybe whole beef heads cooked with wood smoke didn't sync with TM's sensibilities.
-- Posse member Bryan Gooding called the choice of Cowpokes in Pearsall "bogus" and "a pity nod for the valley and possibly the wrong one instead of Vera's." Cowpokes is a gasser, Gooding says.
-- Posse co-founder Chris Wilkins said the list verified many of the Posse's recent conclusions. Lockhart is no longer the BBQ Capital of Texas (Smitty's didn't make the list), Austin is (new joints La Barbecue and John Mueller Meat Co. made it along with Stiles Switch, Franklin Barbecue, and Lambert's).
-- Wilkins was also surprised and impressed that seven Dallas-Fort Worth area joints made the list (Pecan Lodge and Lockhart Smokehouse in Dallas, Meshack's in Garland, Longoria's and Cousin's in Fort Worth, Bartley's in Grapevine, Hutchins in McKinney).
-- Posse member Jim Rossman said he couldn't find any holes "to poke in the new list." By quick count, he said, he had been to 23 of the places on the new list and now had 27 more that he needed to visit.
"All in all, no controversy for me," Rossman wrote in an email. "Congratulations to Daniel Vaughn and the crew at Texas Monthly."
Texas Monthly's 2013 Top 50 BBQ Joints
ALAMO
The Original Willie's Bar-B-Que
AMARILLO
Tyler's Barbecue
AUSTIN
Franklin Barbecue
John Mueller Meat Co
La Barbecue
Lamberts Downtown Barbecue
Stiles Switch BBQ & Brew
BELTON
Miller's Smokehouse
BRYAN
Fargo's Pit BBQ
CYPRESS
Brooks' Place
DALLAS
Lockhart Smokehouse
Pecan Lodge
EAGLE LAKE
Austin's BBQ and Catering
FANNIN
McMillan's Bar-B-Q
FORT WORTH
Cousin's Bar-B-Q
Longoria's BBQ
FREDERICKSBURG
Cranky Frank's Barbecue Company
GALVESTON
Leon's World's Finest In & Out Bar-B-Que
GARLAND
Meshack's Bar-B-Que
GIDDINGS
City Meat Market
GRAPEVINE
Bartley's Bar-B-Q
HENDERSON
Bob's Bar-B-Que
HOUSTON
Gatlin's BBQ & Catering
Virgie's Bar-B-Que
JASPER
Billy's Old Fashion BBQ
JEFFERSON
Joseph's Riverport Barbecue
KERRVILLE
Buzzie's Bar-B-Q
LEXINGTON
Snow's BBQ
LIVINGSTON
Hitch-N-Post BBQ
LLANO
Cooper's Old Time Pit Bar-B-Que
LOCKHART
Black's Barbecue
Kreuz Market
LULING
City Market
MARLIN
Whup's Boomerang Bar-B-Que
MCKINNEY
Hutchins BBQ
MEXIA
Kirby's Barbecue
PEADENVILLE
Hashknife on the Chisolm
PEARSALL
Cowpoke's
PECOS
Pody's BBQ
ROCKPORT
Hatfield's BBQ & Blackjacks Beer Garden
SAN ANTONIO
The Granary 'Cue and Brew
Two Bros. BBQ Market
SAN MARCOS
Hays Co. Bar-B-Que and Catering
SMITHVILLE
Zimmerhanzel's BBQ
SPICEWOOD
Opie's Barbecue
SPRING
Corkscrew BBQ
SWEETWATER
Big Boy's Bar-B-Que
TAYLOR
Louie Mueller Barbecue
TYLER
Stanley's Famous Pit Barbecue
VICTORIA
Mumphord's Place BBQ
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