Finally got here early enough to eat before they run out of food. They've been closing at 3pm because they run out. The brisket and sausage here is really good. I could take a little more heat in the sausage and more smoke taste overall. Like I said, the food is really good so if you're driving through Cresson around lunch time make sure you stop by. Don't bother driving all the way from Dallas though.
Review Source:Amazing!!! Best BBQ in the area! Â
Just a short 20-25 minute drive from Fort Worth. Â Fast and friendly service. Â Brisket is too die for - great smoke ring, perfect seasoning and one of the few briskets with "good fat". The fat is perfectly rendered, buttery, and melts in your mouth. Â The ribs are slightly sweet and tender. Â Turkey is smokey , tender, and juicy. Â The sides are good - better than your average BBQ place. Â The cilantro cole slaw is different and tasty. Â The owners and pitmaster work the front counter. Â The service is extremely friendly and quick. Â
My husband and I have been four or five times now and the quality is always consistent, unlike some other small BBQ places. Â We come early enough so that we can get what we like. Â We have been out trying local BBQ and Texas Monthly's Top 50 BbQ places. Â This should be one of the top 10 if not top 5. Â Even better than #2 rated Pecan Lodge plus less of wait! Â They run out around 1pm daily and they do a lot of to go business. Â So come early!
I've noticed a curious trend lately. And maybe it's actually picked up more momentum or maybe I'm just picking up on it, but everyone's become an expert in barbecue lately- an enthusiastic expert, at that. It may just be due to the Texas Monthly compendium that was released recently, I don't know.
But what's important is that BBQ on the Brazos has been getting a lot of great press as a result and some enthusiastic word-of-mouth recommendations lately, and the fact that they sell out mid-afternoon nearly every single day and are slightly further than a stone's throw from Fort Worth doesn't hurt the mystique either.
I'll say that I'm well aware that I'm the first one to not give this place a five-star rating. I thought it was really good, but I can't say that I saw the Virgin Mary in the grain of my brisket or witnessed any other kind of meaty miracle. It's very solid barbecue, but not quite exceptional if you ask me, and of course all that can vary from sample to sample, visit to visit (reviewer to reviewer...). My brisket had a really great bark but was just a bit too fatty for my liking, and I thought the sausage a little dry.
Look at me, talking like an expert. But you don't have to take my word for it, it's definitely worth the short drive out to Cresson for something different. And if you time it right and make a day out of it, Revolver Brewing is not too far. That wouldn't be a bad day at all.
I'll keep this short and sweet - BBQ On The Brazos is amazing, second only to Pecan Lodge in DFW. Â I showed up right at 9:30 on a Monday morning and, surprisingly, I was the only person there. Â Though I didn't try any sides, the brisket and ribs blew me away. Â Especially the ribs; they were pork ribs in the dry rub style, sprinkled with spices and covered in a (what tastes like) maple glaze. Â Believe me, this place is worth the drive.
Review Source:I was home on vacation and since I live out of state now, I am always looking for good BBQ when I come home. I saw the article in the Fort Worth Star Telegram and decided we should try it on the way from Fort Worth to Fossil Rim.
I will not bore you with the info on how to get there and what the place looks like since Moto S. did such a good job.
We got there at 9am, so I figured we would be stuck with just trying breakfast, but I was excited to find out that they had slabs of brisket and ribs ready to go. Â
For breakfast they have your usual breakfast driving staples like bacon/egg/cheese sandwiches and tacos, but then they have some new stuff. Â My wife had the Brisket breakfast taco, that's right, a Brisket breakfast taco. Â It was awesome!! Â They also had pulled pork breakfast tacos, and chorizo, and ribs.... Â The tortillas are really good, but they are also really thin, so don't take them out of the foil, just unwrap and enjoy.
Since they already had lunch stuff ready to go, I had the brisket and sausage plate. Â I am a sucker for burnt ends, so I asked for some and got a heaping pile...I like to eat burnt ends with my fingers to savor the flavor and these did not disappoint. Â For me the test of BBQ is whether or not you need to put sauce on it, this brisket does not need a drop, it is tremendous on its own. Â I did try the sauce just for good measure, and it was really tasty, I sopped it all up with my giant pieces of Texas toast. Â
When I saw the sausage come out of the smoker, I immediately decided I had to have some. Â It just looked too good to pass, and it is. Â I would say it looks like a cross between chorizo and andouille sausage, but with a completely unique taste. Loved every bite.
The potato salad is really good. Â It is a mustard potato salad, but not with the usual suspects inside. Â I am not sure of the recipe, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Â Even the pickle slices were great, so much so that I refused to share. Â
My wife had been talking about getting banana pudding since we got home, so we grabbed some for desert. It is ridiculous how good this banana pudding is. Â It was only because she loves her family that she was willing to share, but we each only got one bite and then we were cut off so she could have the rest. Â It really is awesome.
The food was so good that I knew I had to take some home to my dad. Â I knew there was no way they would still be open when we came back through in the afternoon, since they close once they run out of meat, so I ordered a pound of brisket and a pound of sausage to go. Â It was smoked so well that I wasn't worried about it sitting in the car while we went to Fossil Rim. Â Believe me it was still awesome when it got home.
Before I finish, I have to say that the staff were super, just the nicest people you could meet.
If you live anywhere near Hwy 377, it is worth the drive to pick up some of this amazing food. Â If you happen to be going to Motorsports Ranch which is next door, then you are an idiot if you don't pick some up.
I promise you will love every bite.
Hasn't been open very long, heard about it and decided to make the trip south to Cresson, just north of Granbury, about 25 miles or so south of downtown Fort Worth on 377, Benbrook hwy. Took me about 25 minutes or so from there, traffic isn't bad, so no big deal.
It's part of a Texaco gas station, but more of one of those larger c-store types with a few gas pumps out front. Shares the building space, but has it's own walled off area. Has a few tables downstairs, and some upstairs. Separate outside door, but there is also a door that connects it to the store if you go in that way.
I decided to go with the rib and sausage plate. Plate with two sides and a drink was about $15. You get two pretty large helpings of side orders, and if the BBQ wouldn't have been so fantastic, I would say it was pricey. Still a little on the high side, but really, it was good enough to not worry about it.
Two good size ribs, and a good size helping of sausage. Ribs appear to have a rub on them, and they're just the right amount of sweet, with good flavor from the rub mixed in. Really good, both meats were great on their own, but the sauce available is really good as well. Pretty unique taste, nothing I've had before, and I assume homemade. A little sweet, but very light. For the BBQ snobs out there, the ribs had a "high end obvious professional smoke ring" (whatever), but for me they were tender, very little fat, mostly all meat on the bone. Very good.
The sausage was a little different, not sure how to describe it, while the appearance might make it look dry, because the casing was wrinkled, that was not the case. Once again, I'm not an expert, but it appears they are making their own sausage. Medium coarseness, very good, but not real spicy.
They even dropped me off a sample of the brisket, which I tried and while brisket isn't what I value the most that often, it was very good, tender, moist, little fat, and yes it had a nice smoke ring on it as well. I'll be making some good brisket sandwiches with it the next couple of days. Right now I hear they run out of meat on some days, get there early. They post "summer hours" open till 3 pm.
Absolutely some of the best BBQ I've had lately, seems like all the new good places are opening up in the outskirts nowadays. Worth every minute of the drive out, any BBQ nuts reading this need to try it out, if this place isn't in the next Texas Monthly best BBQ list top Q joints, something is wrong with those people.
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