{"id":401302,"date":"2025-11-24T12:33:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T12:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/401302\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T12:33:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T12:33:22","slug":"best-of-houston-2025-best-barbecue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/401302\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Of Houston\u00ae 2025: Best Barbecue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Best Barbecue: Pinkerton\u2019s Barbecue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Houston\u2019s barbecue scene is like a pro football league stacked with winning teams. Head to head, you\u2019re going to get a hell of a game. As fans, that\u2019s the kind of competition we love. Often, the difference is the quarterback and Pinkerton\u2019s Barbecue has a Tom Brady-like force in owner and pitmaster Grant Pinkerton. The best QBs can see the field and Pinkerton had a clear vision for his version of craft barbecue, one that focused on quality meats, made-from-scratch sides and family recipes.<\/p>\n<p>The go-to at Pinkerton\u2019s is the brisket \u2013 just look at it up there. Keeping the football motif, this entr\u00e9e is never a Hail Mary, it\u2019s the X-and-O you call when you want to score. It\u2019s what\u2019s put Pinkerton\u2019s on the lauded Texas Monthly Top 50 BBQ Joints list time and again. But, even if you call an audible and go with ribs, turkey or sausage once you\u2019ve made your way to the front of the usual line to order, you\u2019re going to get a winner. That\u2019s thanks to Grant Pinkerton\u2019s expertise and leadership, the sort that gets one splashed on food TV shows, placed on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list and compared to Tom Brady.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Pinkerton&#039;s+Barbecue\/@29.7986886,-95.3814817,17z\/data=!4m14!1m7!3m6!1s0x8640b8970f55dfaf:0x5dc90813516aa52c!2sPinkerton&#039;s+Barbecue!8m2!3d29.7986886!4d-95.3814817!16s%2Fg%2F11cmts9gdc!3m5!1s0x8640b8970f55dfaf:0x5dc90813516aa52c!8m2!3d29.7986886!4d-95.3814817!16s%2Fg%2F11cmts9gdc?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI1MTAwOC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1504 Airline<\/a><\/p>\n<p>713-802-2000<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinkertonsbarbecue.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pinkertonsbarbecue.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"collection-link has-small-font-size\">This article appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpress.com\/?post_type=newspack_collection&amp;p=390334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jan 1 \u2013 Dec 31, 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Best Barbecue: Pinkerton\u2019s Barbecue Houston\u2019s barbecue scene is like a pro football league stacked with winning teams. Head&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":401303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[77157,174102,172450,190005,12730,4345,190006,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-401302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-best-barbecue","9":"tag-best-of-houston","10":"tag-best-of-houston-2025","11":"tag-grant-pinkerton","12":"tag-homepage","13":"tag-houston","14":"tag-pinertons-barbecue","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115604698428937632","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}