Everyone’s heard of Franklin: the Austin barbecue favorite open only for lunch is known for great brisket and extremely long lines. But on a quick trip through Austin, killing 3–4 hours waiting for a meal is often out of the question. Enter: this episode of The Meat Show, wherein host and professional carnivore Nick Solares offers 3 totally worthy alternatives to Franklin, from the history-rich to the flavorful young guns.
Franklin Barbecue
Friday Find: CBS This Morning visits Franklin Barbecue
Yet another behind the scenes look at Franklin Barbecue:
“Franklin Barbecue: A Meat-Smoking Manifesto” shows what Aaron Franklin has perfected since smoking beef brisket for friends in his back yard. Franklin says all good Texans barbecue, but he is special: a James Beard Award winner with eager customers who wait for hours at his restaurant. Vinita Nair takes a behind-the-scenes look at Franklin Barbeque in Austin, Texas.
Friday Find: FoodieHub gets in line at Franklin Barbecue
From SXSW a month or so back, here’s the seemingly-yearly video on the line at Franklin Barbecue.
Linkdown: 2/10/16
– Picnic, a new whole hog barbecue restaurant in Durham, is now open
– It’s also one of Garden & Gun Magazine’s 5 restaurants they can’t wait to try
Five new and soon-to-open restaurants we can’t wait to try this year. https://t.co/rPG8hq4g33 pic.twitter.com/Ouuftxi2n2
— Garden & Gun (@gardenandgunmag) February 10, 2016
– The coast of NC is facing an invasion of other types of barbecue styles
“In all my pilgrimage up and down the coast, there was just very little good barbecue. The best you could hope for was to find something edible in a sea of mediocrity,” Early said. “When I go to the coast I go to eat fish. I don’t think of the coast as barbecue country.”
– The Charlotte Observer checked out Rusty’s Southern in San Francisco last week while there for Super Bowl 50 and found that the restaurant serves chopped Carolina pork and “would look and feel right at home in NoDa, or in his parents’ current hometown of Davidson”
– After last fall’s Hogs for the Cause was rained out, Home Team BBQ is having a block party March 12
-The title says it all: Two Franklin Barbecue Fans Joined in Holy Matrimony While Waiting in Line
– Our State takes on the Mallard Creek Barbecue
Politicians and pork lovers converge at the state’s biggest and oldest church barbecue. https://t.co/em2tPnWRNI pic.twitter.com/j71IHZBwRX
— Our State Magazine (@ourstatemag) February 8, 2016