I love the baked potatoes with chicken! The people are very friendly and we need to support more local businesses!

Absolutely spectacular Texas bbq! Everything was delicious, but the star of the show was easily the chopped brisket. We'd come back again in a heartbeat. read more

Great bbq. Not fast food. Outdoor seating. Sometimes run out of certain items. Good ice tea. Great bbq sauce. The lady at the window is sometimes grumpy, but I wouldn't want her job. It looks hot & cramped in kitchen area. read more

Great BBQ!! Not a fancy BBQ place but it has the GOODs!! Definitely worth a visit and coming back!! A local recommended it and they weren't wrong... :) Brisket is 100% legit. Great flavor. Moist. Good smoke ring. Sliced Brisket Sandwich have a decent helping of beef. Very filling! read more

The Real Pit BBQ - Sliced Brisket Sandwich. Great TX BBQ!! - Barbeque Near Me - Canyon Lake, Texas

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Ok, brisket here is the real deal. Needs no sauce, although their homemade stuff is quite good. Perfect combination of smoke, tenderness, aroma, color and bark. Warms back up days later, just good as fresh. And THAT is one of the true tests of good brisket. read more

Don't waste your time or money . Stoped in for a quick lunch for the FIRST and LAST time ever. The lady at the window taking orders was pretty rude and discriminatory. (Maybe even racist) The brisket was good, but there's plenty of better places in Canyon Lake. Places where you won't get discriminated against. DONT BOTHER TO EAT HERE. Just go little further down the road to another place that is actually happy to have your business. read more

Ordered a 2-meat sandwich of sliced beef and jalapeño cheddar sausage with a sweet BBQ sauce. The sausage has some nice spice, but the meat was a bit grainy in texture. The Mac & Cheese was good and adding it to the sandwich made the sandwich even better. Overall solid BBQ but disappointing you can't use any of the picnic tables there to enjoy the food. Not sure the reason why, but this place is to go only. read more

The Real Pit BBQ - the outside of the restaurant - Barbeque Near Me - Canyon Lake, Texas

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Meh, bbq brisket used in sandwich tough. Only selection of brisket & sausage. Flavor good.

Its ok not the best in the world. They were better years ago. Brisket seems really fatty and does not have a good flavor.

It's a quaint place on a corner lot with friendly service. Food was ok for the price. All outdoor seating. read more

The Real Pit BBQ - a picnic table in front of a mural - Barbeque Near Me - Canyon Lake, Texas

The reason why I give it 2 stars is their bbq sauce and Mac and cheese were decent. I got the rib plate. The rib by itself without bbq sauce was very dry. Was not very impressed or satisfied at all with the food. read more

The Real Pit BBQ - Rib plate - Barbeque Near Me - Canyon Lake, Texas

This place just blew me out of the water!!! as 25 year bbq pit master this is Some of the best I think I've ever had as not of my own lol. Now I won't go anywhere else. just has a great vibe of that true Texas bbq shack feeling. love the outdoor seating. The copped sandwich was excellent most of all the Service was excellent. Great job read more

Don't get me wrong this place smells amazing! So I figured how could I go wrong. Of course smoked wood always smells good and shouldn't be the indicator that the food is good. That being said, I got a bbq plate. I ordered the chopped beef, pinto beans and Mac and cheese. The beans tasted like plastic, the mac and cheese were bloated noodles with some weird cheese sauce. Now the chopped beef was okay but it wouldn't make me want to stop to have it ever again. I took a few bites of everything and just couldn't continue so I threw the rest away. What a waste. And yes everyone who said the service was bad wasn't lying! I got yelled at for having my dog outside, which fine no problem my husband took our dog back to the car and waited with her while I got our food but I didn't need the evil eye the whole time while I ordered. That should have been my indicator to just leave. Lesson learned. read more

This is a simple restaurant, but with delicious food. The menu is very varied, stopping to enjoy this meal is what you should not miss if you visit Canyon Lake. I mention that my two orders had ribs, potato salad, green beans and coleslaw, but what can I tell you apart from delicious ... each person enjoys different things but in mine, I really enjoyed that food. Visit him and let me know your experience ... read more

The Real Pit BBQ - BBQ ribs, potato salad and coleslaw. - Barbeque Near Me - Canyon Lake, Texas

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The lady is so mean but gosh darn the bbq is so goood I don't even care been coming here since I was a kid Best chopped beef sandwiches

Excellent food and reasonable prices. Any time I'm in the area I go by and pick up some food. It is really smoked on a pit, not an oven with sauce like you find at some places. read more

Y'all so good .... Just stop and pick up something ... we were surprised at the prices being so low ... we had potato salad and beans as our side and they were both good , sausage , brisket and ribs and all were great .. sauce is so so .. but I am not big on bbq sauce ... the little dining area was closed and just FYI .. no dogs allowed read more

The sliced brisket was tough and relatively flavorless. In particular it had almost no smoke ring or bark. Service was neither prompt or friendly. A lack of competition apparently keeps this place in business. It was much less expensive than the much better Texas barbecue you can get almost anywhere in Austin. read more

Stopped in on a whim that small town places are the best and gosh darn it was I RIGHT again ! That sliced brisket was moist, perfect temperature, fall apart piece of heaven. The potato salad was absolutely delicious as well the only thing I would have done different is, order more ! Quick service, very short wait for my food. Kind and courteous people. I'm bringing the family back with me next time. read more

Declicious TEXAS real BBQ. Be sure and ask for sauce even though you pay extra for sauce. It's flavorful even without sauce.

In the late morning, we discovered our grill died. We needed four smoked chickens for a large gathering that night. Real Pit BBQ was able to fulfill our order with only a few hours notice and the chicken was moist and delicious! Thanks for helping us out with our family meal. read more

Not horrible, but certainly not good Texas BBQ. We ordered plates with two sides. I got sliced beef and sausage, wife got sliced beef. My sides were mac and cheese, and potato salad, my wife ordered green beans and coleslaw, but received potato salad and coleslaw instead..... Who knows if the brisket was any good, it was drowned in what tasted like Kraft barbecue sauce. Potato salad was more like a cold mashed potato than typical chunk potato salad. Mac and cheese was ok, not super flavorful. Coleslaw wasn't bad, but they put the extra onions and pickles on top of it, so it absorbed the pickle flavor/juice. Over all, I'd say this place will work as a last resort, but I'd try to find other options first. read more

Overall our experience was good and we will definitely be back. We had brisket, ribs, plain sausage, mac n cheese, and pinto beans. The brisket was fantastic which is what earns four stars. The ribs were cooked very well but had a sweet rub which was much different than midwestern pork ribs. The texture of the sausage was a little off but the flavor was good. The sauce was sweet and spicy with black pepper with a tangy backbone. Finally for sides, the mac n cheese was very special and the pinto beans were good enough to eat with a spoon like soup. Great job Real Pit BBQ! read more

These people are rude crooks!! Come here if you want to be completely screwed over... Charged my card TWICE and said it didn't go through even though it showed the money had been taken out twice on my mobile app. Still they refused to give me my food because 'my card was declined'. When I talked to the owner things got even worse!! Can you believe this guy actually yelled at me and told me he could do whatever he wanted because it's his business?! What kind of place is this guy running? I even called my bank and they confirmed that I HAD been charged twice. the girl at the front said she would give me a refund after all (which btw, who actually offers a refund if they don't believe your card really went through?!) so she refunds me HALF of what was actually charged to my card. So I was charged $13, got yelled at by the owner, didn't even get my food and then because they had already given me my tea my father in law was told he had to pay for my tea. But it gets EVEN worse... When I went to the bank to settle everything and show them my recites and see what I could do they looked at my recites and say no wonder there wasn't a refund issued... It says 'offline'. The girl must have turned off the credit card machine and swiped my card just to give me a recite and shut me up. Ugh REALLY?! (See pics) I don't care if you have the juiciest BBQ, served on gold plated platters, hand fed to me by you yourself.... If your running your business like you don't care about your customers and you act like a complete asshole then I won't be eating at your BBQ!! read more

The Real Pit BBQ - Got lied to, yelled at, paid for food I never got and then they FAKED a refund by turning their card reader OFFLINE. - Barbeque Near Me - Canyon Lake, Texas

So this place is "Real Pit BBQ" with a great side of southern hospitality Visiting this area of Texas I was hoping to find a place that had some fantastic BBQ and asking one of the locals that live there that happen to be friends of mine, they told me to try this place. In fact they would take me there to try it because it is so good. Looking at this place from the street it doesn't look like much, but what great restaurant does? Looking at the two people in side, I step up to the window and order what I wanted and the family that I came along with did the same knowing exactly what they wanted. The man took the order, shut the glass window and the him and his employee started working at what they do best. Making some grade A BBQ. We waited for a few min and after getting to talk to them while they worked he invited us to go to this little rodeo they and a group of others through every thursday night. Sharing a few laughs and talking about how he started this place up turned out to be a lot of fun and the wait for the food was not that long at all. So grabbing my tee, bag of chips and my BBQ sandwich, I sat down to eat and boy did I enjoy it. Thats "real pit BBQ" right there! I would travel the 3 hours to see my friends any day knowing there was this good of a place here. I look forward to going here soon and trust me, I will be here soon. Oh did i mention that their prices are awesome and that they make all their desserts homemade as well? hehe i love this place read more

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This was the absolutely worse place with terrible customer service. The so called lady taking orders was so rude and discriminatory. I will never spend my money in a place like that!!!! read more

Great BBQ .. get there early or call in your orders if you don't want to miss out ! Perfect BBQ pickup place w amazing smoked turkey and sliced beef.. also their bbq sauce is impressive .... ! read more

3pm on a Tuesday, hungry after a drive out from Houston. Brisket was dry and 1/2 of us had thick, chewy pieces at the bottom. They were out of jalapeño cheddar sausage, but the other sausage options were good. It's the risk you run getting local bbq. Sauce was good, but applied to the meat in our to-go boxes, and I prefer to apply as needed, not pre-sauced. We all got dessert, and I was surprised to get chocolate in my pecan pie. Not bad, but I prefer pecan pie to be just that. No bonus ingredients. read more

My fav bbq at the lake. Choc pecan pie along with a stuffed potato the size of your head... just do it. The chopped beef is really good too. The sides are fresh and tasty. read more

From the outside it lives up to it's name. Very unassuming location that we probably would not have stopped at without a recommendation from a local. We are very glad we went. We ordered the Family pack with 1/2 beef and 1/2 sausage and selected potato salad and coleslaw as our sides. The meal came with bread, pickles, onions, and plenty of BBQ sauce. We ordered a large lemonade and a slice of chocolate pecan pie. The flavor was all around delicious with exceptional potato salad. One downside is the amount of styrofoam and plastic used without a recycling container available. Taking the food to go would reduce this some. read more

Very good food. Brisket, delicious. Sausage, delicious. Green beans, delicious. Mac & cheese, not a whole lot of flavor. Pecan pie, super yummy! read more

Good little BBQ spot. Chicken was a little dry, but ribs were tasty. You get a lot of food for the price. Mac & cheese was blah, but just add bbq sauce to it and its tasty. Looks like its only to-go orders. read more

I am a local and I get BBQ from the Real Pit BBQ at least twice a week. The brisket and smoked Turkey are our favorites. We also order a smoked Turkey and all the sides every Thanksgiving and Christmas. read more

Good bbq. I am a fan of their ribs and their brisket sandwiches. Nice deep rich smoky bbq. It is convenient to my location, about 5 minutes away from me, and are at the intersection of River Road and FM 2673. Some drawbacks are they close very early (6pm) and are not consistantly open during regular posted hours. Otherwise, try them out. read more

This place was on point!!! The Mac & Cheese and tea was real good to bad I couldn't get refills on the Mac & Cheese. We will be back but I'll be bringing the rest of the hooligans. read more

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Well-executed barbecue and sides. The brisket was flavorful and had a good bark without being too greasy or dry. The turkey had a delicious pepper crust and the macaroni was delicious. And the prices were good. We paid $20 for a family meal. In Houston, you can pay that for a pound of brisket alone. read more

I cant wait to go back! Sadly both the chicken and turkey was sold out by dinner time, but I heard great things about them. My roommate loved the cheese/jalapeno sausage. All the sides we had were really good (although the mac and cheese was a bit salty). read more

I stop here to get a chopped beef sandwich which is good and a peach cobbler which is not the cobbler is served ice cold and not that it mattered I didn't eat it anyways but wasn't very much cobbler for 2.50 I would eat here again but just stick with the chopped beef read more

The Real Pit BBQ - The cobbler was not any good it's served ice cold - Barbeque Near Me - Canyon Lake, Texas

Brisket is buttery good. Sauce is amazing. Cole slaw is great. Potato salad is too runny but good. Sausage is good. Great BBQ. Always in the weeds on service. Tables are sticky. You have to sit outside. Great place. read more

The Real Pit BBQ - 2 meat plate. - Barbeque Near Me - Canyon Lake, Texas

Got he chopped sandwich. Wasn't the greatest, definitely had better. Long wait time to get your food.