{"id":210102,"date":"2026-03-18T17:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/210102\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T17:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:40:08","slug":"franklin-barbecue-remains-best-in-texas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/210102\/","title":{"rendered":"Franklin Barbecue remains best in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southernliving.com\/best-bbq-joint-every-state-2026-11916312\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Southern Living<\/a> has named Franklin Barbecue the best in Texas for the fifth straight year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pitmaster Aaron Franklin\u2019s brisket with a tangy glaze keeps drawing crowds from around the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFifteen years ago, Aaron Franklin transformed his pioneering operation from a trailer into a brick-and-mortar spot on Austin\u2019s East Side. Fans from around the world queue up for hours to experience the craftsmanship that has made Franklin a barbecue celebrity,\u201d Southern Living wrote. \u201cFlawless prime-grade brisket with a sweet, tangy glaze is still the showstopper here, and it\u2019s accompanied by the quintessential Central Texas lineup of pork ribs, turkey, and jalape\u00f1o-Cheddar sausage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Southern Living also ranked the barbecue joint No. 20 across the entire South, <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/tx\/south-texas-el-paso\/news\/2025\/08\/05\/franklin-barbecue-named-best-barbecue-restaurant-in-u-s-\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No. 1 in America<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/tx\/south-texas-el-paso\/news\/2026\/03\/18\/LoveFood.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LoveFood.com<\/a> and No. 17 on <a href=\"https:\/\/robbreport.com\/food-drink\/dining\/lists\/best-restaurants-america-21st-century-1237256635\/franklin-barbecue-austin-texas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robb Report\u2019s<\/a> top U.S. restaurants list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Southern Living has named Franklin Barbecue the best in Texas for the fifth straight year.\u00a0\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[6295,132,134,133,5604,49,30921,223,13214,27],"class_list":["post-210102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-app-food","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-austin-what-you-need-to-know","tag-food","tag-food-and-dining","tag-news","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}