News & Politics
December 16, 2018
Texas Monthly’s Most-Read Stories of 2018
Here are the stories that resonated most with our readers this year.
Best of lists
December 15, 2018
The Best Texas Monthly Longform of 2018
Put your feet up and settle in for our favorite longform of the year.
BBQ
October 15, 2015
The Top 25 New and Improved BBQ Joints in Texas
It’s been two years since Texas Monthly published its last Top 50 BBQ Joints list. It was a feat of reporting that took me and my barbecue-eating cohorts across the state to eat at countless legendary restaurants, holes-in-the-wall, out-of-the-way joints. The work didn’t end when the issue went to press.
BBQ
July 28, 2015
Another Barbecue List
With what seems like three new barbecue lists coming out daily during the summer, I’ll forgive you if you didn’t notice the new one this morning. However, many did comment on Thrillist’s new one entitled “An Expert Panel Ranks the 5 Best BBQ Joints in Dallas.” This list included…
BBQ
May 20, 2015
America’s 100 Best BBQ Restaurants
Kerlin BBQ in Austin, Texas, is the best barbecue joint in the country. Or at least that’s the conclusion Johnny Fugitt arrived at after traveling the country and eating 365 barbecue meals in 365 days, a journey he chronicled in his new book, The 100 Best Barbecue Restaurants in…
BBQ
December 31, 2014
Most Memorable BBQ Bites of 2014
I ate a lot of barbecue meals in 2014. Some were great, some awful, but most of them landed closer to the middle. Rather than reliving the bad ones, these were my twenty-five most memorable bites from the past year, presented in chronological order. Fargo’s Pit BBQ in Bryan, Texas…