{"id":237106,"date":"2025-09-18T19:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T19:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/237106\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T19:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T19:41:09","slug":"houston-restaurant-known-for-steak-and-stone-crab-reopens-after-renovations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/237106\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston restaurant known for steak and stone crab reopens after renovations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three Houston barbecue restaurants have earned slots on a newly-released best BBQ list. The list, Top BBQ Joints in the South<\/a>, is from Southern Living magazine, a magazine fond of lists, and features 17 restaurants in Texas overall, including Houston-area restaurants Blood Bros. BBQ (Bellaire), Truth BBQ, and Tejas Chocolate + Barbecue (Tomball).<\/p>\n

All three are critical favorites. Blood Bros. received a shoutout in the New York Times<\/a> for its innovative blend of Asian flavors and Texas barbecue. Tejas Chocolate earned a spot in the Michelin Guide, and Truth is one two restaurants to make the top 10 of Texas Monthly’s top 50 barbecue joints<\/a> three cycles in a row.<\/p>\n

The list was compiled and ranked by Southern Living\u2019s Contributing Barbecue Editor, Robert F. Moss, who is based in Charleston, South Carolina. It’s probably completely unrelated but the No. 1 “joint” on the list is City Limits Barbeque, which just happens to be located in West Columbia, South Carolina. Of the 50 on the list, 12 are in South Carolina.<\/p>\n

Moss was appointed barbecue editor at the magazine in 2014 \u2014 one year after Daniel Vaughn was appointed barbecue editor at Texas Monthly. A release says that Moss dined at each restaurant on the list in person \u2014 no long-distance UberEats-ing \u2014 and has visited most multiple times. Geographically, Texas is as far west as the list goes, and it ventures as far north as Maryland. <\/p>\n

“When compiling the list, he revisits as many previous honorees and as many potential new contenders as time will allow,” it says. So: not all. Also, he doesn’t use score sheets or grading systems \u2014 instead, it is a “qualitative ranking based upon the enjoyment of the meal and the overall experience of the visit.”<\/p>\n

Moss seems to prize history and experience as much as, if not more than, the way a restaurant’s food tastes, which produces some surprising results. For example, Spring’s Corkscrew BBQ is one of only four barbecue restaurants to earn a Michelin star, but it didn’t earn a spot in Moss’ list. Two other star holders \u2014 InterStellar BBQ and La Barbecue in Austin \u2014 are also absent from Moss’ list. Similarly, buzzy Burnt Bean Co.<\/a> in Seguin \u2014 which made No. 1 on the most recent Texas Monthly list \u2014 comes in at No. #31.<\/p>\n

The Texas restaurants that made the list are as follows, with their ranking:<\/p>\n