Originally the home of Texas BBQ stalwart Kreuz Market, Smitty's has called this dark, soot-stained building home since 1999.
Word is they used to chain the knives to the table back in the cotton farmer days, both to prevent theft and knife-fights. Now they just give you plastic as your lone utensil.
The corrugated tin and wire mesh door let you know that the Taylor Cafe is first and foremost a Texas honkytonk that also serves some of the best BBQ in the state.
Octogenarian owner and pit boss Vencil Mares opened the Cafe in 1948 right alongside the railroad tracks and still shows up for work daily, smoking and serving the traditional Texas fare of brisket, sausage (beef and turkey), chicken and limited sides.
What is Texas barbecue? It's doing something well and allowing that work to speak for itself, an increasingly rare commodity in these gourmet times.
The best BBQ that eastern NC has to offer. Eastern NC's BBQ is in a league of it's own.
The best bloody mary in Asia and possibly the greatest martini in the world makes me go back again and again to Naughty Nuri’s Warung – a shack of a restaurant in the hills of Ubud, Bali. The sweet smoky ribs and the juicy, perfectly-charred filet mignon however, makes me dream of this laid back slice of heaven.
This Amarillo Muffler Man can be seen passing by on I-40. He stands in front of Country Barn BBQ and Steaks.
Traveling Highway 61 from Memphis, through Mississippi, is like traveling into the past--a past that filled with juke joints, BBQ stands, and the signs of renewed racial relations in the South.
A shot taken at Captree State Park in the winter. Picnic tables and empty bbqs awaiting summer use.