The Beaumont restaurant serves Central Texas–style barbecue, including impressive brisket and painstakingly developed sausage.
Plus: free bacon burnt ends, a new location for Smoke Sessions, and yet another project for Blood Bros. BBQ.
The city’s flourishing art scene doesn’t get enough credit. One pandemic-safe way to appreciate it: a walking tour of more than a dozen outdoor murals.
Plus: Texas A&M scientists used eye-tracking tech to help 1775 BBQ in College Station design a new menu.
He was a high school band director and the cornerstone of a lively music scene in southeast Texas—and then a Saturday night gig exposed him to the coronavirus.
Beaumont is home to one of just a handful of stores in a chain once beloved by movie nerds.
The barbecue history of Southeast Texas has been entwined with links for as long as it’s had a dining culture. Legendary joints like Patillo’s Bar-B-Q have been making all-beef sausages stuffed in beef casings for over a century, and a dozen or so link shops carry on
Belinda George makes sure that every student at her elementary school gets read to at night.
Hal Guillory serves Southeast Texas specialties at this Beaumont institution.
A New York man wants to know everything there is to know about Texas toast.
How Rob Flurry's childhood reading forged his passion for sword and knife making.
How Zena Stephens became the highest-ranking law enforcement officer in Jefferson County.
When a teenage boy brazenly shot two endangered whooping cranes outside Beaumont, his act unleashed widespread anger and resulted in a quick arrest—and revealed just how difficult it can be to save a species.
And the apps to download before you go.
“WE CATER TO REAL COFFEE drinkers,” says seventy-year old Joseph Fertitta, the president of Beaumont’s Texas Coffee Company and son of the founder. Texas’ only family-owned Coffee-manufacturing company has been perking along with its Seaport brand since 1921, competing in the national market by virtue of its product’s prodigious strength.
Starting in 1923, Beaumont businessman John Gavrelos carved out a realm of his own at his J&J Steak House on the Eastex Freeway. Gavrelos died in 1979, but his Eye of the World, a tiny museum appended to the side of the restaurant, still lures visitors with its enigmatic jumble
At Conn Appliances, employees—and customers—are members of the family.
Pity the poor Vietnamese: so far from home, so close to Beaumont.
