Re: The worst ever !
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 2:22 pm
Straying from the Houston area, and it's been a looooong time since I was there, Angelo's in Fort Worth used to serve up this "brisket" that was cooked to about the consistency of meat pudding. I could have shot it out of my kid's water pistol. The redeeming factor was ice cold frosty huge schooners of beer, and the place is kind of an icon. Might be better now.
And while it's easy to pick on chains (and I only go there when dragged by friends now), the only redeeming quality at Dickie's is the "free" ice cream. Would happily bulldoze the lot of them and put up lube shops, it would improve the neighborhoods.
At least for a chain, Sonny Bryan's does a fair job. The original in west Dallas is still actually pretty good brisket, and it fits my category of a "great" venue - it's a shack and dive where the newest thing in the place is probably 40 years old. My kind of place, been going there since Dad first took me at age 7. Reminds me of that line in in the country song - "I went out to find myself, and I found myself in a bar...".
Just my personal opinions of course.
And while it's easy to pick on chains (and I only go there when dragged by friends now), the only redeeming quality at Dickie's is the "free" ice cream. Would happily bulldoze the lot of them and put up lube shops, it would improve the neighborhoods.
At least for a chain, Sonny Bryan's does a fair job. The original in west Dallas is still actually pretty good brisket, and it fits my category of a "great" venue - it's a shack and dive where the newest thing in the place is probably 40 years old. My kind of place, been going there since Dad first took me at age 7. Reminds me of that line in in the country song - "I went out to find myself, and I found myself in a bar...".
Just my personal opinions of course.