{"id":444544,"date":"2026-09-22T23:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T23:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/444544\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T23:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T23:42:07","slug":"a-top-texas-barbecue-restaurant-drops-brisket-amid-soaring-beef-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/444544\/","title":{"rendered":"A top Texas barbecue restaurant drops brisket amid soaring beef prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"FUPTJRKMJNHYBI7BNS6LS3FOHM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Last week, Andrew Soto learned the wholesale price of his brisket had increased by $1 a pound, a dramatic leap even at a time of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/food\/2026\/09\/16\/soaring-beef-prices-have-put-burgers-out-reach-some-americans\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/food\/2026\/09\/16\/soaring-beef-prices-have-put-burgers-out-reach-some-americans\/\">soaring beef costs<\/a> across the country. The owner and pitmaster behind Butter\u2019s BBQ in Sinton, Texas \u2014 one of the top 50 smokehouses in the state, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/interactive\/top-50-bbq-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/interactive\/top-50-bbq-2025\/\">Texas Monthly\u2019s estimable list<\/a> \u2014 figured he would need to charge customers $51 a pound to justify keeping brisket on the menu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week, Andrew Soto learned the wholesale price of his brisket had increased by $1 a pound, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-444544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444544","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=444544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}