📍 Lockhart, Austin
3 restaurants · 2026
🍽️ 3 Restaurants
Forty-five miles south, the self-declared BBQ capital of Texas runs three historic pit rooms with all-day smoke and butcher-paper plates
Top 3 in Lockhart
1
Kreuz Market
Lockhart BBQ cathedral since 1900 — no forks, no sauce, no sides (well, some now). Shoulder clod, prime rib, sausage, and pork chops smoked over post oak in massive brick pits. Thi...
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2
Black's Barbecue
The oldest BBQ joint in Texas continuously owned by the same family — since 1932 in Lockhart, the BBQ Capital of Texas. Sausage rings, brisket, and ribs prepared the old-fashioned ...
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3
Smitty's Market
Lockhart BBQ royalty in the original Kreuz Market building — the family split in the 1990s and Smitty's kept the original pits. Walk through the fire pit entrance, order by the pou...
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