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The sixth edition of Texas Monthly’s highly anticipated best grill restaurants on the state list has arrived, and three Austin restaurants have made it into the top 10. Interstellar Barbecue landed at number 2 for the first time on the list, LeRoy & Lewis at number 3 (also for the first time on the list) and at number 7 on the regular Franklin Barbecue (after being number 2 last year).
Number 1 is Goldee’s in Fort Worth, where the owner and Pitmaster group has extensive grilling and dining experience in Austin. Dylan Taylor worked at La Barbecue (although he is not mentioned in the publication), Lane Milne (Micklethwait Craft Meats and now closed Freedmen’s), Jonny White (Franklin and Valentina’s Tex Mex BBQ), Jalen Heard (Freedmen’s and Banger’s), Nupohn Inthanousay (who directed Thai Kun) and PJ Inthanousay.
Snow’s Barbecue in Lexington under the amazing Tootsie Tomanetz, Kerry Bexley and Clay Cowgill has fallen from its previous rank of 9th to 9th this year.
The publication notes that 29 contestants are on this grill list for the first time. The top ten are also much more diverse than in the past.
Interstellar co-owner John Bates and Brandon Martinez opened in 2019, transforming one of the locations of their now permanently closed Noble Sandwich Co. restaurant into a smoked meat location. The team is rounded off by the pit champions Carlos Cruz and Warren McDonald.
Pitmaster and co-owner Evan LeRoy opened the new school barbecue truck LeRoy & Lewis with managing partners Nathan and Sawyer Lewis in 2017 (they won Eater Austin’s Best Food Truck later that year). The team plans to open a physical location with a brewery component at some point.
The Franklin co-owners, Pitmaster Aaron Franklin and Stacy Franklin, opened the grill restaurant of the same name in 2009. Now the Pitmaster team includes Jordan Jackson, Megan Nesland and Matthew Van Orden.
Texas Monthly’s Top 10 Best Grill Restaurants
- Goldees Barbecue (Fort Worth)
- Interstellar BBQ (Austin)
- Truth Grill (Houston)
- Burnt Bean Co. (Seguin)
- LeRoy & Lewis (Austin)
- Beef grill (Dallas)
- Franklin Barbecue (Austin)
- Evie Mae’s Pit Barbeque (Wolforth)
- Snow Grill (Lexington)
- Panther City BBQ (Fort Worth)
The rest of the Austin barbecue restaurants from the unrated top 50 list
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