Monk: Kreuz Market has been a fixture in downtown Lockhart, Texas ever since Charles Kreuz Sr. purchased a meat market from Jesse Swearingen in 1900 and renamed it. In this video, Trey’s Chow Down visits Kreuz and gives a short video tour before chowing down on beef rib, brisket, sausage, chicken, and their comically large pork chop.
Description: A Texas BBQ legend since 1875 in Lockhart, Texas
Monk: The Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest was held this past weekend in Memphis, and The Shed yet again took home the Grand Champion and Whole Hog titles. The Grand Champion title was the third for the 17-time competition team from Ocean Springs, MS led by brother and sister Brad Orrison and Brooke Lewis.
The full list of winners in other categories are on their website. Of note, Big Bob Gibson and Chris Lilly took home yet another Pork Shoulder title.
Of note, the upstart barbecue competition SmokeSlam also took place the same weekend at Tom Lee Park, the former site of the Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest.
Here were the winners of SmokeSlam:
Friends of the blog The Low and Slow Barbecue Show featured Jon G’s Barbecue
Union Barbecue is a newer barbecue food truck in Charlotte native Holden Sasser
Pizza Peel in the Plaza Midwood is closing after a decade open and is turning into an Improper Pig
Mike D’s BBQ in east Durham but got a couple of lifelines through a Rapid Recovery loan from The NC Rural Center
City Limits Barbeque has been testing out pork steaks
Smoke Queen Barbecue is run by Winnie Yee-Lakhani and was recently featured by J.C. Reid in a recent profile
After last week’s tornadoes, many Houston restaurants are still without power including Gatlin’s BBQ and Feges BBQ
Daniel Vaughn digs up the first article on Franklin Barbecue
Monk: April was a busy month for ol’ Monk here, but we’re back with the first linkdown in a while. Hoping to get back to a more regular schedule now.
John Tanner on Bum’s in Ayden
The 40th Lexington Barbecue Festival will be on October 26
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John Tanner has started a “survey of SC barbecue and hash” if you want to follow along on his blog; here are the first entries
Damien Brockway of Distant Relatives and Deepa Shridhar are teaming up for a barbecue-Indian lunch service this week
Valentina’s Tex Mex BBQ‘s Buda restaurant is temporarily closed while they sell to new management
The Pit Room‘s second location is now open in Memorial, TX
On a recent trip to NYC, Daniel Vaughn finds some promise in Bark Barbecue, located in a stall in the Time Out Market food hall, but also finds that the city’s best barbecue days may be behind it
Congrats to Meat Church on 10 Years!
Monk: Trey’s Chow Down visits Smitty’s Market and gives you a tour of the operation from a first person POV.
Description: Smitty’s Market is still run by the family today and offers authentic Central Texas Style BBQ, sides, and house prepared sausages hot or cold. No matter what kind of meat you love, Smitty’s offers some of the best.