The smoke billowing from Terry Black’s Barbecue in Austin hits you before you even open your car door, like a delicious warning of the meat coma that awaits inside.
You know you’re in for something special when the parking lot looks like a convention of pickup trucks and rental cars, all drawn by the same primal urge for perfectly smoked meat.
This place has mastered the art of turning simple ingredients into something that makes grown adults weep tears of joy.
Step through those doors and you enter what can only be described as meat heaven, complete with the intoxicating perfume of oak smoke and the sight of briskets that could star in their own calendar…