Briscuits

“Morning brisket, folded into a buttermilk biscuit”

Briscuits parks at Radio Coffee & Beer on Menchaca Road and does something almost no one else in a brisket-obsessed city attempts: it makes barbecue a morning event. The concept earned a spot on Texas Monthly's 2025 Top 50 and a Michelin Bib Gourmand, unusual honors for a trailer whose signature move fits in one hand. That move is the brisket biscuit — smoked brisket layered into a tall, fluffy buttermilk biscuit, the fat and bark playing against the buttery, tender crumb. Order the brisket on its own and you get a proper Central Texas cook, dark-edged and oak-scented, with no morning shortcuts taken. Breakfast-leaning sides round it out. It is the rare Austin barbecue that rewards showing up before noon rather than lining up at dawn for a dinner-sized haul, and it closes by mid-afternoon.