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Black's Barbecue

215 N Main St
Lockhart, TX 78644
Phone: (512) 398-2712
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Cross Street:
Pecan Street
Hours:
Mon-Thu 10am-8pm, Fri-Sat 10am-8:30pm, Sun 10am-8pm

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Black's Barbecue

Oldest Bar-B-Que restaurant in Texas, run by the same family since 1932

  • Open 8 days a week
  • Less than 30 mins from Austin
  • Homemade beef and pork sausage

There is something timeless about the feel of this relaxed café with Texas license plates lining one wood wall and Longhorn horns decorating the others.

No wonder: It has been run by the same family since 1932.

Owner Edgar Black, the son of the founder, still does things the way Daddy did, using post oak to indirectly smoke the meat, which is seasoned only with salt and pepper. The moist, deep-flavored brisket cooks for 24 hours, the good beef-and-pork sausage is homemade. Hammy pork ribs, chicken redolent of smoke. Made-from-scratch sauce is thick, red and sweet. Sides are numerous.

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Editorial Description for Black's Barbecue

Family owned barbecue joint since 1932 offers smoked brisket, pork ribs, chicken and homemade sausages. Orders shipped worldwide.

User Reviews for Black's Barbecue

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3 Star Rating: Average

01/13/2008 Posted by chuckberry71

A friend and I drove down to Lockhart to experience the legendary Kreuz's barbecue. Silly us, we went on a Sunday, when Kreuz's is closed. There's a billboard for Black's BBQ, so we decide to find it and see if it was open. Well, it happened to be one of the 8 days of the week the place is open, so we were in luck. Serve yourself sides are the first thing you pick, I got the broccoli salad with little red onions (very good). I chose a quarter pound of brisket and a quarter pound of pork loin. You pay for the food by the cutting station and get your drinks in another room. Serving drinks was a bored and easily annoyed goth girl who was the standout reason not to go to Black's. Seemed to pretend not to understand anything I said. The brisket was good, but a bit too fatty, and the pork loin a touch dry. Not a bad place to go if other places are closed, but I certainly think there are better places in Lockhart to get BBQ.

Pros: Open when others aren't, good standard Texas BBQ

Cons: Disconnected and uninterested service

4 Star Rating: Recommended

09/29/2006 Posted by wingage

i go to austin a lot and i always drive down to smitty's in lockhart to eat and also to bring back a few pounds of brisket and sausages to LA. we went to black's one night because we got a late start smitty's and kreuz were already closed. anyway, the people who work there were pretty nice and easygoing, but the brisket and ribs weren't anywhere near what i was expecting. brisket was a little dry and plain and the ribs were tougher than i expected. smitty's is the best in town (and anywhere else) and kreuz is a close second. i would put blacks at a distant third...

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Hours

  • Mon-Thu 10am-8pm
  • Fri-Sat 10am-8:30pm
  • Sun 10am-8pm

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  • Barbecue

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  • Group Dining

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