BBQ
March 29, 2024
Historic Barbecue Joints Are Rapidly Becoming History
There's been a spate of closures of old joints over the last few years due to tiny profit margins, costly repairs, and retiring owners.
Prause Meat Market
BBQ
August 13, 2020
A Barbecue Family’s Final Farewell
The butcher shop and barbecue joint, more than a century old, is finally shutting down (but not before giving us its mop sauce recipe).
BBQ
September 3, 2014
Interview: Prause Family of Prause Meat Market
Gary, Mark, Kathy, and Brian PrauseOwners: Prause Meat Market; Opened 1890’sAge: Gary Prause (60), Brian Prause (59), Kathy Prause (55), Mark Prause, pitmaster (51)Smoker: Wood-fired brick pitWood: OakPrause (pronounced Prowse-ey) Meat Market has been operating in La Grange for one hundred ten years. The
BBQ Joint Reviews
January 26, 2011
Prause Meat Market
A pork roll sounds like a school cafeteria main course that’s been chopped, pressed, and processed. It’s much better than that when executed by the pitmaster at Prause Meat Market. A whole pork shoulder is deboned then wrapped and tied in a roll before smoking. On this visit I
BBQ Joint Reviews
May 16, 2009
Prause Meat Market
A nondescript metal door on the side of the building is the entrance into the pit of this joint with more than one hundred years of history. Prause was a meat market in the late 1800’s and has been a barbecue joint nearly all of its life, according