Sounds Like Old Town
When I walk around in the morning hours at The Craftory it’s typically pretty quiet. As I’m outside tending to the cooker, I might catch an early distant warning that a train is barreling down on Old...
View ArticleBarbacoa Style
For about the last 6 weeks or so we’ve been offering up barbecue pork cheeks on Fridays as a meat special. Pork cheeks are a rich, succulent, tender, smokey meat good on its own, or great for tacos,...
View ArticleA super week
As hard as Houston worked all week to host the Super Bowl H-Town deserved a great game and did indeed get one for the ages. It was pretty neat to see such excitement around town during Super Bowl week....
View ArticleMoving the needle
On Monday mornings, I’m not in such a rush to get into work and start a fire like I am the rest of the days. We don’t open until Tuesday, so I all have to do is get a casual head start on Tuesday with...
View ArticleCrush
For restaurants and chocolate makers Valentines Day sits there on the calendar waiting to pounce on you. I felt like this year we looked at this important date from a little further back with a better...
View ArticleMay The Q Be With You
As our Saturday was coming to a close we loaded up Michelle’s Outback with a substantial amount of barbecue and sides to deliver for a party in a hanger over at Hooks airport. Michelle and I got to...
View ArticleDust In The Wind
Last Wednesday night Michelle and I were watching our pool fill up with tree debris. We have one of those oak trees that drops as much organic matter in the Spring as the new leaves are budding as it...
View ArticleAfter Texas Monthly (ATM)
On Monday May 22nd TMBBQ tweeted a link to Texas Monthly’s online magazine featuring the top 50 barbecue joints in Texas. The 2017 Top 50 BBQ joint list. https://t.co/mw01lD9rRh — TMBBQ (@tmbbq) May...
View ArticlePure Joy
I remember looking at the 2017 calendar early this year and groaning that July 4th was going to be on a Tuesday. The groan was a retrospective reaction from my 27 years in the railroad industry where I...
View ArticleSpecial Deliveries
Last week brought us a couple of special deliveries. Not the regular brown truck or US postal delivery but the kind of deliveries that make your life “forevermoore” better. Chef Greg became a grandpa...
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