Dining Guide
Brooks’ Place
Brooks’s own style borrows from the Southern tradition of pork-centric barbecue, but he combines it with a mastery of smoked beef that is usually limited to Central Texas. In time, even the most skeptical of Houston ’cue hounds were making regular trips to Cypress to taste Brooks’s brisket. It’s minimally trimmed—an anomaly in Houston barbecue, where “fat” is a four-letter word—resulting in moist, perfectly rendered meat with a crusty, jiggly fat cap still attached. Ribs and sausage are top-notch too. Kicked-up baked beans redolent of oregano and simple, fresh-made garlic potatoes round out the menu.
City: Cypress
Cuisine: Barbecue
Method: Red oak, pecan, hickory, and mesquite; indirect-heat pit
Pitmaster: Trent Brooks
Pro-tip: Look for the Ace Hardware sign; you'll never see the trailer.
Price: $$
Address: 18020 FM 529, Cypress, TX, 77433
Hours: Wed-Sat 11-7, Sun 11-5
Phone: 832-893-1682
Website: brooksplacebbq.com
Year Opened: 2009
Last updated: May 3, 2013
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Brooks’ Place
Trent Brooks was working as a materials specialist for a gas-compression company when a supervisor, who knew of Brooks’s talent as a part-time pitmaster, referred him to an ad on Craigslist for a $12,000 mobile smoker. Brooks negotiated the price …