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    Luling City Market - 1/2 pound meat and two sides.

    Luling City Market

    3.2(298 reviews)
    1.5 miHighland Village, Galleria/Uptown
    $$

    I was craving barbecue--specifically lean brisket and a good beef sausage link--and this spot had…read moresolid reviews, so I decided to give it a try. When you walk in, the first thing you see is the bar area. At about 3 p.m., on a Friday, the bar stools were nearly full. One reviewer mentioned that the bar seemed to be the main attraction during their visit, and I can see why. I actually wasn't sure where to go to order food until the bartender pointed me further inside. Behind a wall is the actual ordering line. Even getting started was a little confusing. You grab a tray and the first thing you encounter is the fountain drink machine, which makes it feel like you've skipped a step. Meanwhile the dining area--roughly the same size as the bar area--was practically empty. The whole layout just felt a bit disjointed. The menu also threw me off a bit. Instead of typical barbecue plate options (one-, two-, or three-meat plates with sides), most items are priced by the pound. There was one half-pound meat option with two sides, and thankfully they let me split that between two meats. I ordered lean brisket and a homemade beef link with pinto beans and green beans. The beef link was excellent. The casing had that perfect snap, and the filling was moist and crumbly--the way a good Texas sausage should be. Too many places pack sausage so tightly it eats like baked salami, but this one had great texture and flavor. The brisket, unfortunately, was pretty dry. The pinto beans and green beans were fine--filling, but nothing memorable. And then came the crescendo of the visit: the barbecue sauce. They appear to offer only one sauce, and it tasted strongly mustard-based...which I absolutely detest. What made it even more confusing is that the sauce was a reddish-orange color, which made me assume it was a typical tomato-based BBQ sauce. Nope. If there were other options, they weren't offered or pointed out. One other drawback is how close the bar is to the dining area. Sitting within earshot of some pretty colorful bar conversations while trying to eat was a little off-putting. So overall: great beef sausage, dry brisket, forgettable sides, and a mustard-forward sauce that sealed the deal for me. If there were a traditional sauce option, I might consider coming back. But that mustard-based barbecue sauce? Yeah... that is surely a deal breaker.

    I could eat BBQ every single day. Rain, shine, heartbreak, payday it doesn't matter. So when I saw…read moreLuling City Market, I slammed on the brakes like my car forgot how to drive. The smell hit me before I even walked in smoky, meaty, heavenly. I swear it whispered, "Eat me." It was lunchtime, so I kept it "simple": brisket sandwich and a spicy sausage link. Famous last words. First, the brisket sandwich. The bread? So thick it could bench press a brisket. The meat? Old, tired, sad. No bark. No life. Looked like it had survived the great BBQ apocalypse yesterday and was just... holding on. I took one bite and whispered, "Oh this brisket has regrets." Then I went for the spicy link, hoping for a comeback story. Nope. Flavor? Evaporated. Spice? Missing in action. Just sadness in casing form. I stared at it, imagining it going to therapy for underachievement. By the end, I was just staring at the smoker like it personally ruined my childhood. BBQ places like this, man they're stuck in the past. The service? Always sweet, amazing folks. And honestly, it reminded me of Sundays growing up family crowded around, my dad on the grill making ribs, the smell drifting down the block, neighbors sneaking over, my brother stealing ribs like a little criminal mastermind. Pure nostalgia. But the new BBQ masters out here? They're not playing. They're remixing recipes, tossing in flavor, sending heat like a BBQ apocalypse in the best way possible. I'm talking ribs that make angels weep, brisket that hits your soul, sausage that could start a revolution. And I'm so here for that era.

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