We have recommenations at ontheinside.info, but what about places you should avoid? New Yorker cartoonist Matt Diffee, from Texas, states Dallas BBQ is such a place:
They have crappy meat that I think they cook in the microwave, and then they put sauce on it. I’m sure they don’t do that, but it is not authentic barbeque. It’s not slow cooked with an indirect heat which is essential. Part of it is, I think, that you can’t have a barbeque pit smoker in Manhattan. You’re not allowed by law, so all the good places actually do their smoking out in Queens or somewhere and then bring it in every day. But they do spend the time, the 16 hours or whatever, it takes to slow cook this to the point where it really tastes good. At Dallas, they just cook it as fast as they can and put sauce on it. And I hate particularly the fact that they call it Dallas BBQ, because having grown up outside of Dallas, it’s just sacrilegious. I feel like telling the Texas tourist board about it, and they can come shut them down. The tragic thing is that people from up here who’ve never really had good barbeque, go there and think this is all barbeque is and that’s just the saddest thing because real barbeque is so good.
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