The moment you step out of your car at Franklin Barbecue in Austin, your nose takes over as tour guide, leading you straight toward what can only be described as smoke-scented nirvana.
This modest establishment on East 11th Street doesn’t look like much from the outside – just a simple building with straightforward signage that seems to whisper rather than shout.
But that smoke.
That glorious, wood-fired smoke that drifts across the parking lot and down the street, carrying with it the promise of pulled pork so transcendent, you’ll question everything you thought you knew about barbecue…