Making sausage ain’t easy. There’s the trimming, grinding, seasoning, stuffing, and then the smoking. For barbecue joints, buying a few boxes of cheap sausage from your food distributor is a tempting prospect when compared to the hours required to make your own. But Texas is a place where smoked sausages are a part of our barbecue identity. Whether it’s from the Czech, German, or Beaumontian sausage making traditions, or it’s an innovative modern recipe, a good smoked sausage is the signature of a pitmaster willing to make the extra effort to bring their customers something unique.
We’ve created this list to recognize those that make that extra effort. It is by no means complete, and only includes establishments where the sausage is served hot (meat market sausages will be covered in a future post). We’ll continue to add to it as we come across any new joints with links on the smoker, and feel free to add any that we’ve missed on the comments section below.
Austin’s BBQ & Catering in Eagle Lake
Bellville Meat Market in Bellville
Best Quality Meats in Temple
Billy’s Old Fashion BBQ in Jasper
Black’s BBQ in Lockhart
Broussard’s Links + Ribs in Beaumont
Burn’s BBQ in Houston
Cattleack BBQ in Dallas
Chisholm Trail Bar-B-Q in Lockhart
City Market in Luling
City Market in Schulenberg
City Meat Market in Giddings
Clem Mikeska’s BBQ in Temple
Comeaux’s in Port Arthur
Cousin’s BBQ in Fort Worth
Davila’s BBQ in Seguin
Freedmen’s Bar in Austin
Gerard’s Bar-B-Q in Beaumont
Gonzales Food Market in Gonzales
The Granary in San Antonio
Guy’s Meat Market in Houston
Hays County BBQ in San Marcos
Hutchins BBQ in McKinney and Frisco
Inman’s Ranch House Bar-B-Q in Marble Falls
Jambo’s Rib Shack in Rendon
Jones Sausage & BBQ House in San Antonio
Killen’s Barbecue in Pearland
Kreuz Market in Lockhart
Kolacny’s BBQ in Hallettsville
La Barbecue in Austin
Lambert’s in Austin
Leon’s World’s Finest Barbecue in Galveston
Longoria’s BBQ in Everman
Louie Mueller Barbecue in Taylor
Love’s Smokehouse in Chillicothe
Luling Bar-B-Que in Luling
Luling City Market in Houston
Matus BBQ in Caldwell
Meyer’s in Elgin
Micklethwait Craft Meats in Austin
Miller’s Smokehouse in Belton
Novosad’s BBQ in Halettsville
Pappas BBQ in Houston
Pappa’s Bar-B-Q in Houston
Patillo’s Bar-B-Q in Beaumont
Pecan Lodge in Dallas
Pittsburg Hot Links in Pittburg
Powell Bar-B-Q in Houston
Prause Meat Market in La Grange
Ray’s BBQ Shack in Houston
The Sausage Shoppe in Fort Worth
Smitty’s Market in Lockhart
Smoke in Dallas
Smokey Denmark Smoked Meats in Austin
Smokey John’s BBQ in Dallas
Smolik’s Smokehouse in Mathis
Southern Q BBQ in Houston
Southside Market in Elgin
Speech’s Store in San Antonio
Taylor Café in Taylor
Vincek’s Smokehouse in East Bernard
Vitek’s BBQ in Waco
Woodshed Smokehouse in Fort Worth
Wünder Pig Barbecue Co. in Austin
Zimmerhanzel’s Bar-B-Que in Smithville
