TMBBQ Fest 2016

Texas Monthly’s annual festival for barbecue lovers, returns to Austin for its seventh year on Sunday, October 30, 2016, from 1 to 4 p.m.

The festival, which sells out every year, will showcase smoked delicacies from 27 of the state’s most celebrated barbecue purveyors, all of whom have been honored by the magazine’s coveted list of “The 50 Best BBQ Joints in the World!”

Guests are encouraged to sample from as many BBQ vendors as their stomachs will allow, plus many sweet treats. Shiner Beer and Legacy Whisky cocktails will be available for purchase, along with giveaways and interactive festivities by sponsors Nationwide Insurance, Texas A&M University, YETI Coolers, Central Market, and Barbecue Wife Bloody Mary Mix. The afternoon will feature live music from Santiago Jimenez Jr. and Warren Hood.

BBQ joints will include: 

Austin’s BBQ and Catering (Eagle Lake)

The Beast (Paris, France)

The Original Black’s Barbecue (Austin)

Buzzie’s Bar-B-Q (Kerrville)

Cousin’s Bar-B-Q (Fort Worth)

Cranky Frank’s (Fredericksburg)

Evie Mae’s (Wolfforth)

Franklin Barbecue (Austin)

Freedmen’s (Austin)

Gatlin’s BBQ (Houston)

The Granary ’Cue & Brew (San Antonio)

Hays Co. Bar-B-Q and Catering (San Marcos)

Hutchins BBQ (McKinney)

Killen’s Barbecue (Pearland)

La Barbecue (Austin)

Lamberts Downtown Barbecue (Austin)

Lockhart Smokehouse (Dallas)

Louie Mueller Barbecue (Taylor)

Miller’s Smokehouse (Belton)

Opie’s Barbecue (Spicewood)

Pecan Lodge (Dallas)

Pody’s BBQ (Pecos)

Snow’s BBQ (Lexington)

Stanley’s Famous Pit Barbecue (Tyler)

Stiles Switch BBQ & Brew (Austin)

Two Bros. BBQ Market (San Antonio)

Tyler’s Barbecue (Amarillo)

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