Austin BBQ Tour: 6 Tastings, Michelin Stops & Skip the Line
About This Experience
la Barbecue holds a MICHELIN One Star and a line that wraps the building. Micklethwait Craft Meats is a Bib Gourmand honoree and one of Food Network's 25 Best Food Trucks. KG BBQ is chef Kareem El-Ghayesh, a James Beard semifinalist, smoking lamb with Middle Eastern spice. Mum Foods makes the pastrami Texas Monthly's barbecue editor calls the best in the state. Parish Barbecue brings Louisiana heat from a pitmaster who cooked at Franklin.
Then a sixth stop we don't announce. It's sweet. You'll think you're finished eating. You aren't.
Between plates, your guide tells you how East Austin was built and why these blocks became America's most argued-about barbecue.
Come hungry.
Tour Itinerary
35 min
Smoked lamb with Middle Eastern spice from chef Kareem El-Ghayesh, who took his Cairo upbringing into Central Texas barbecue. A MICHELIN Bib Gourmand honoree and a James Beard Award semifinalist for Best Chef: Texas.
25 min
Texas pastrami on house-made rye — called the best pastrami in the state by Texas Monthly barbecue editor Daniel Vaughn, at a deli USA Today named to its Restaurants of the Year list. Queens deli technique, Central Texas smoke.
25 min
The MICHELIN One Star stop, and the reason the line wraps the building. You walk past it. Sausage ground and stuffed in-house, plus brisket from a joint that has held a place on Texas Monthly's Top 50 Barbecue Joints in Texas.
25 min
Start with brisket-stuffed kolaches and house-made sides at a MICHELIN Bib Gourmand smokehouse that Southern Living named a Top 50 barbecue joint and Food Network ranked among America's 25 Best Food Trucks. Owner Tom Micklethwait makes nearly everything by hand, down to the pickles.
25 min
Louisiana flavor meets Texas tradition. Pitmaster Holden Fulco cooked at InterStellar Barbecue and Franklin Barbecue before opening his own truck, and the menu shows both lineages.
10 min
A secret sweet stop: We don't announce this one. You'll think you're finished eating. You are not finished eating.
What's Included
Included
- Luxury SUV for groups of 8 or fewer; minibus for larger groups
- Skip-the-line access at participating barbecue stops
- All restaurant taxes and gratuities at tour stops
- In-vehicle air conditioning
- Local guide with East Austin food and neighborhood history
- Six food stops with generous tastings — enough for a full meal
Not Included
- Gratuity for your guide
- Alcoholic beverages (optional $35 drink package available at booking)
- Pick up and Drop Off
Meeting Point & Logistics
Start Point
You will receive a text the day of the tour with specifics on the address, where to park, and how to find your guide. Meeting address is also included in conformation email.
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Important Information
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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