This week's work field trip involved a trip to a hole-in-the-wall place we had spied earlier this fall. Said establishment was called Tex's - not Texas, but Tex's - and is located in a wood-paneled building near Foster Ave and Murfressboro Rd. The outside looks like your typical roadside barbecue stop - a little run-down, covered in vintage signs, and an inviting neon "Open" placard in the front window.
On their website, Tim "Tex" Williams boasts that his establishment is one of the oldest barbecue joints in town, having been open for 35 years. They don't "make the most" barbecue and are "not the biggest barbecue house in town," but for all their humility, they certainly are something to write home about (don't we need to change that phrase? Who "writes home" about things anymore? Let's say it's something to text home about.).
They serve up heaping portions of smoked-and-pulled-in-house barbecue and fixins. You know it's going to be good when sides are called "fixins" and macaroni and cheese qualifies as a "vegetable."
Not only that, but they're only open Monday through Friday from 11-2. They serve up their delicious food "professionally and informally" - and if you know how to strike the perfect balance of professional and informal, then you're a winner.
You can order practically any combination of barbecue and fixins you can think of - brisket, pulled pork, smoked sausage, smoked turkey breast, bbq baloney, and ribs with "veggies" (everything from mac&cheese to black eyed peas to potato salad to deviled eggs to collard greens to baked beans), cobbler, pies, and several fresh cornbreads. I ordered a "lite plate" which included pulled pork, sweet cornbread, and three sides - macaroni and cheese, green beans, and baked beans. I didn't want my plate to ever be clean - this food was phenomenal! The only thing they could improve upon was making their sweet tea a tad sweeter - but I suppose I should thank them for trying to save my arteries in the eleventh hour.
Tex's World Famous Bar-B-Q is located near Foster Ave and Murfreesboro Rd at 1013 Foster Ave.
That's my kind of lite plate!
ReplyDeleteIt was a hard truth I had to learn when I left the South that many people in this world do not consider macaroni and cheese a vegetable.