Thursday, July 1, 2010

Four of Maxim's "10 Best Temples of 'Cue in the World" are in Texas

Stanley's Famous Pit Bar-B-Q (Tyler, TX), The Church of Holy Smoke (Huntsville, TX), The Salt Lick (Driftwood, TX), and Smitty's Market (Lockhart, TX) are numbers 7-10, respectively, on Maxim magazine's top 10 picks for BBQ, as featured in the latest edition (July 2010, p. 64). (I won't tell you what all else is featured.) FWIW, #4 on the list is the BBQ joint I've eaten at more than any other: Leo & Susie's Famous Green Top Bar-B-Que, about 20 minutes from my hometown of Jasper, Alabama. But I digress.

The list only includes 2 pics, one of which is of a sandwich at Stanley's, which I'm happy to say is an affiliate of The Q Card (Present The Q Card at Stanley's, and you get a 2nd of anything you buy half off!). The snippet for Stanley's describes the sandwich: "Stanley's Famous Pit Bar-B-Q boasts a sandwich called the Brother-in-Law: a butterflied hot link sausage, a slice of cheese, a vinegar-and-molasses sauce, and chopped brisket. Perfect."

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The joints listed in Maxim are not listed in order from Best to Worst, rather as points on a map to take a drive. The drive ends at Smitty's, long considered the "birth place" of BBQ. Super cool! So the numbers next to the joint are only given as a reference on the map...

Drew Thornley said...

Ahh, yes. Should've noticed that from the cartoon map next to the writeup...or inferred it from the fact that the Texas places were listed last!