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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...

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  Smoked Out: Henderson & Kane

  July 30 at 5 a.m.

  About a year ago John and Veronica Avila expanded on their little known downtown barbecue stand, El Burro & The Bull, with a totally new concept aimed at reviving the dying neighborhood grocer and bringing some New York charm to the streets of Sixth Ward. Henderson & Kane is an...

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  Smoked Out: Feges BBQ

  July 16 at 5 a.m.

  I have been annoyed, perhaps irrationally so, by Feges BBQ since it first opened in early 2018. It is, by all accounts, a beloved, dual-chef-run, locally-owned barbecue joint with the supposed quality and creativity to lead a new generation of Houston smokehouses — and they put it in Greenway F*****g Plaza!...

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  Smoked Out: Jackson Street BBQ

  July 2 at 5 a.m.

  In 2015 chef Bryan Caswell (Reef, El Real Tex-Mex) and Houston pitmaster Greg Gatlin opened Jackson Street BBQ in the shadow of Minute Maid Park. The joint venture aimed to capitalize on the growing popularity of Texas barbecue while catering to hoards of hungry Astros fans on their way in and...

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  Smoked Out: Phil-Paul's BBQ

  June 25 at 5 a.m.

  Sometime in late 2018, a small, nondescript barbecue restaurant quietly opened on Lyons Avenue in Houston's historic Fifth Ward. The family-owned smokehouse opened with no press and little fanfare beyond a few public Facebook posts by its proprietor. Eight months later, people are slowly taking notice. Phil-Paul's BBQ at 3206...

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  Smoked Out: Brookstreet Bar-B-Que

  June 18 at 5 a.m.

  Sugar Land is spoiled for choice when it comes to dining. The massive and affluent suburb turned micro-metropolis has more respectable culinary diversity than most areas outside the loop — thanks in large part to its sizable Indian, East Asian and Latino populations. And yet, good barbecue in Sugar Land...