B Cooper Barbecue

“A Manor Road trailer smoking lamb next to the brisket”

Pitmaster Blaine Cooper runs this under-the-radar trailer on Manor Road, cooking over a live post-oak offset while the rest of Austin lines up elsewhere. B Cooper trades on cuts most trailers won't touch, which makes an ordinary Thursday order feel like a small discovery rather than a repeat of the joint down the street. The brisket is the anchor — deeply smoked over the live fire and patiently rested until the fat gives way — but the smoked lamb breast is the reason to make the drive, a fatty, gamey cut you rarely find on a Central Texas board. On Fridays and Saturdays, Mangalitsa pork ribs bring a richer, heritage-breed marbling to the ribs, and the charred, creamy elote holds its own against the meat. It is a small operation with an ambitious hand and the range to prove it.