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[Bar-B-Lew]

Heading to Dallas/Ft Worth area over Labor Day weekend.  Anyone have any BBQ recommendations?

[GREG-B]

Rudy's was passable.  Can only attest to their St. Louis ribs though.

[Bar-B-Lew]

Rudy's was passable.  Can only attest to their St. Louis ribs though.

Is that the gas station place?

[NorCal Smoker]

Never been, but the #1 bbq joint in the Texas monthly is in the area. If I was in the area I would try Goldees bbq.

[Bentley]

Wish I could help...I could tell you a place to get pretty good Crawdad Etouffee!

[Brushpopper]

Rudy's was passable.  Can only attest to their St. Louis ribs though.

Is that the gas station place?

It is and I agree that it's passable but that's about all I can contribute.  NorCal Smoker has a good plan of checking the Texas Monthly list of BBQ places.

[Bentley]

And the owners of Goldee's have open a new spot, Ribbee's (923 E Seminary Dr, Fort Worth, TX 76115).  But they are strictly Ribs.  I guess they do Pork BB, St Louis and Beef Back.

[Bar-B-Lew]

I was at Rudy's in Houston years ago and remember liking the jalapeno sausage.  Thanks for the tips.  Keep them coming if anyone else has been to anyplace in either city.

Sorry, Bentley, but I do not eat fish or seafood or rice and beans for that matter too.

[GREG-B]

"Is that the gas station place"?

Not to my recollections.  Both Rudy's we went to were restaurant style establishments

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://rudysbbq.com/location/detail/fort-worth-tx&ved=2ahUKEwiZ1rTn4cqHAxU0LTQIHZogDt8QFnoECBMQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2ymwVz90anB4TdARuqw-CH

[Bar-B-Lew]

This was the one that I was at many years ago - probably almost 25 years.

https://rudysbbq.com/location/detail/houston-i45s-nasa-tx

[jdmessner]

It has been several years since I have been down that way. When I was there I didn't have a lot of free time and no real inclination of where to go. There was a fair going on and a friend of mine and I spent an afternoon walking around the fairgrounds and found some great vendors.

On the one free night we had to explore, we stopped at Cooper's Old Time Pit BBQ. It is on Stockyard Blvd. in Fort Worth. We had not received any recommendations or read any reviews. We were just hungry, driving by, and it looked like it would be worth a try. I cannot tell you what I had, but the place left a good impression. Being hungry and in a new place probably helped contribute to that assessment. Besides, everything looks good in Texas!

Safe travels! Be sure to post where you end up and what you thought of it!

[yorkdude]

It has been a while, probably 6 years but we went to Lockharts, it was pretty darn good but I just looked it up and reviews are quite mixed.
That is the only thing I can add.
Travel safely.

[hughver]

It's been a number of years since I've been to Dallas but there are two memories that I have . At one place they served whole peanuts as appetizers, and you threw the shells on the floor. The other was a place that, as you entered, they took a pair of scissors and cut off your necktie and pinned it to the wall. I do not remember the names but over several visits, I lost a few good ties.

[Bar-B-Lew]

It has been a while, probably 6 years but we went to Lockharts, it was pretty darn good but I just looked it up and reviews are quite mixed.
That is the only thing I can add.
Travel safely.

Lockhart's was on my list to hit on my way back north to Dallas after going to visit some Stevie Ray Vaughan related sites before I hit some art museums in Dallas.

[Bar-B-Lew]

Here is a summary review of the 5 places that I had BBQ while in TX this past weekend.

Jalapeno and cheddar sausage
1 Terry blacks - very moist and semi soft casing
2 Rudy's - moist with snap casing
3 pecan - semi moist with snap casing
4 Lockhart - kinda dry with snap casing
5 oak'd - dry with snap casing

Turkey
1 Rudy's - very moist with black pepper rub
2 Terry Black's - moist kinda rotisserie flavor
3 pecan - semi moist with black pepper rub

Mac
1 pecan - garlic, onion, jalapeno flavors
2 Lockhart - jalapeno added nice kick
3 Rudy's
4 oak'd - slightly better than Kraft
*** Dallas art museum very creamy with white cheddar sauce and bread crumb crust probably #2 on the trip

Ribs
1 Terry black's - best spare ribs ever great rub most tender spares I've eaten
2 Rudy's - baby back with very little rub but nice texture for the bite test sweet top and salt and pepper bottom
3 Lockhart's - spare ribs semi sweat rub very fatty

Brisket
1 pecan - salt and pepper super tender right mix fat
2 Rudy's - salt and pepper flat pull apart tender
3 Lockhart - salt and pepper not quite pull apart tender
4 Terry black's - flat with fat top kinda dry
5 oak'd - didn't separate flat and point and a lot of fat in the middle

Green beans
1 Terry black's - best ever - garlic salt, fresh onions, butter, maybe little black pepper

New potatoes
1 Rudy's - very tender but not mushy and nice clear butter sauce over top