{"id":418539,"date":"2026-08-27T20:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T20:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/418539\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T20:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T20:28:11","slug":"decorated-texas-barbecue-joint-announces-houston-pop-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/418539\/","title":{"rendered":"Decorated Texas barbecue joint announces Houston pop-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/kg-bbq.square.site\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">flyer<\/a>, KG&#8217;s pop-up at 1517 Alabama St. will feature a mechanical bull, step dance lessons, live music and, of course, Kareem El-Ghayesh&#8217;s signature Egyptian-Texas-style barbecue. The food is available from noon\u00a0until they&#8217;re all sold out. The free entertainment starts at 8 p.m. and ends when Axelrad closes.<\/p>\n<p>KG&#8217;s menu for the Axelrad event includes classic Central Texas-style smoked brisket ($19); lamb chops served medium rare with a mint chimichurri ($9.50); and a brisket rice bowl with Mediterranean rice, smoked brisket, baladi salad, tahini, candied nuts and pomegranate seeds ($18.50). All are available for pre-order.<\/p>\n<p>El-Ghayesh primarily operates KG BBQ in Austin, but his pop-ups have shown up in some interesting places. A year or so ago, my cousin took a vacation to the Cayman Islands and asked if she should go to one of his pop-ups there (I said yes, she should).<\/p>\n<p>A native of Cairo, El-Ghayesh made waves in the Texas barbecue scene by hosting pop-ups, starting in the 2010s. He opened KG BBQ as a permanent fixture at\u00a0Oddwood Brewing in Austin in 2022. Since, he&#8217;s racked up national media attention and accolades, including a James Beard Foundation semifinalist nod for Best Chef: Texas in 2023. He got a Michelin Bib Gourmand a year later.<\/p>\n<p>Many barbecue experts have praised El-Ghayesh&#8217;s faithful interpretation of Central Texas-style cooking, along with his incorporation of Egyptian and Mediterranean culinary traditions. There aren&#8217;t many places around that do smoked kofta, za&#8217;atar and pomegranate glazed pork ribs with a pita on the side.<\/p>\n<p>More broadly, KG BBQ is another example of the continuing fusion that goes on in Texas cuisine, particularly with immigrants and their children who&#8217;ve grown up here. Blood Bros. BBQ in Houston and Smoke&#8217;n&#8217;Ash BBQ in Arlington are among countless other examples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to a flyer, KG&#8217;s pop-up at 1517 Alabama St. will feature a mechanical bull, step dance lessons,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1703,1704,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-418539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-chronfood","tag-chronstaff","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418539","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=418539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}