Black's Barbecue

“Lockhart's oldest name, planted on Guadalupe”

Black's has been smoking meat in Lockhart since 1932, one of the oldest continuously running barbecue families in Texas, and the Guadalupe Street location carries that near-century of practice into Austin proper. It exists so you don't have to drive thirty miles south to taste what put Lockhart on the barbecue map — the same family recipes, the same post-oak commitment, run in the middle of the city. The brisket comes with a deep, peppery bark and the confidence of a recipe that predates most of its competitors, but the house ring sausage is the item to build an order around — a coarse, snappy link from a formula that has barely changed since the 1930s. Beef ribs bring the drama when they're on, hulking bones with rendered fat and a hard smoke edge. This is deep Lockhart tradition on a college-town street.