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Terry Black's Barbecue
Terry Black's Barbecue, opened in 2014 by members of the Black family, who also founded the well-known Black's Barbecue in Lockhart, brought that multi-generational Central Texas barbecue lineage directly into Austin with a larger, higher-volume restaurant format than many of the city's trailer-based competitors. Its larger dining room and more traditional full-service restaurant setup, distinct from the walk-up trailer format common among Austin's other top barbecue spots, gave it the capacity to serve considerably higher volumes without the same extended wait times, while maintaining the family's traditional Central Texas technique. The restaurant's direct lineage to Lockhart, one of the towns most closely associated with the foundational history of Central Texas barbecue, gave Terry Black's a specific claim to traditional technical authenticity relative to some of Austin's newer, more independently founded barbecue operations. For an Austin BBQ list, Terry Black's is the essential "Lockhart lineage, Austin scale" entry — a Black family barbecue restaurant bringing genuine Central Texas barbecue heritage into a larger, higher-volume Austin restaurant format.
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Kerlin BBQ
Kerlin BBQ, opened by Bill and Amy Kerlin in East Austin in 2012, built its reputation around a meticulous, traditional Central Texas approach to brisket, sausage, and ribs, with Bill Kerlin's background staging at some of the region's most respected barbecue joints before opening his own trailer. Its pork ribs and boudin in particular earned consistent praise from local and national food critics, giving Kerlin BBQ a broader reputation beyond brisket alone at a time when brisket quality alone tended to dominate most barbecue rankings and comparisons across Austin's crowded scene. The trailer's continued operation as a genuinely independent, husband-and-wife-run operation, without the larger scale or multiple locations some of Austin's more prominent barbecue names have since grown into, has kept Kerlin BBQ closely associated with a smaller-scale, craft-focused approach to the city's barbecue tradition. For an Austin BBQ list, Kerlin BBQ is the essential "small-scale, technically excellent" entry — a husband-and-wife-run East Austin trailer whose ribs and boudin have earned it a reputation extending well beyond brisket alone.
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