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  Smoked Out: Pappa Charlie's Barbecue

  September 10 at 4 a.m.

  When you set out to review barbecue in the city of Houston, you're bound to walk some well-trodden roads. Barring the occasional new opening, you're often left reviewing old-school stalwarts and hometown heroes. Pitmasters and cooks who made names in the pop-up and competition circuit, who've racked up their share...

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  Openings and Closings: Peli Peli Woodlands Opens, Toasted Coconut Debuts, Night Heron Evolves

  September 6 at 5 a.m.

  Peli Peli, 1201 Lake Woodlands, opened September 3. The South African-inspired restaurant takes its name from the bird's eye chili pepper discovered by Portuguese settlers in the South African plains nearly 600 years ago. This makes the fourth location for Peli Peli restaurant, which was co-founded in 2010 by Thomas...

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  Smoked Out: Buck's Barbeque Co.

  September 3 at 4 a.m.

  Jim Buchanan's road to opening his very own brick and mortar barbecue joint was, as all entrepreneurial journeys are, long and full of unexpected detours. The owner and pitmaster of Buck's Barbeque Co. in Galveston began his public barbecue life as partner and general manager of the original Pappa Charlie's...

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  Smoked Out: True Texas BBQ

  August 27 at 5 a.m.

  We're going to skip the lead up this week and tell you that the worst thing about True Texas BBQ is having to drive an hour to get to the nearest one — which honestly begs the question, what are some of you thinking commuting to Kingwood everyday? Our hats...

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  Smoked Out: Gyu-Kaku Japanese BBQ, A Different Kind of Barbecue

  August 20 at 4 a.m.

  What is barbecue? It's a controversial question around these parts. Pitmasters, especially in Texas, take great pride in their smoke-based craft. The art of cooking meat via the indirect low heat of wood smoke is a time honored and culturally defining ritual. And yet, strictly speaking, it is just one...

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  Smoked Out: Delta Blues Smokehouse

  August 13 at 5:30 a.m.

  In December 2017, the folks behind Houston's most polarizing chain barbecue brand and the city's quintessential restaurant empire opened a smokehouse unlike anything else on the company's roster. Pappas Delta Blues Smokehouse arrived, rather quietly, in Webster, Texas — a stone's throw from Space Center Houston and League City. The...