Barking Carnival was actually originally conceived as a barbecue blog that would dabble in Texas sports. Oh well.
Texas Monthly has published its annual Meata Carta.
“Texas barbecue has no peer on earth.” That’s what I immodestly declared in 2013, when we published our fourth list of the fifty best barbecue joints in the state. We were right, of course, but I did wonder: Had we peaked?
Once again they have omitted Chooky’s ranch from their esteemed Top 50 list, possibly because it’s an undisclosed location, isn’t reliably open and/or due to Health Service violations.