Headed up by owner and pitmaster Leonard Botello IV, Truth BBQ is a critically acclaimed Texas barbecue brand.
“Botello opened TRUTH BBQ Brenham in a small shack off a rural highway that runs between Austin and Houston in the summer of 2015,” says the Truth BBQ website. “Armed with a used Klose pit as a complete unknown in the barbeque world – Leonard surprised the industry in 2017 when TRUTH BBQ was awarded #10 on Texas Monthly’s Top 50 Texas BBQ Joints list in 2017, and was recently ranked in the top 3 on the 2021 Texas Monthly Top 50 BBQ List.”
Now, Truth BBQ appears to be branching out with a new restaurant in Charleston. Plans submitted to the City of Charleston Technical Review Committee show a new Truth BBQ location in the works at 1300 Rutledge Ave—the former home of Rutledge Cab Co…