Texas is known for its delicious cuisine, including its outstanding selection of barbecue. If you’re in the mood for barbecue so good you can’t help but lick your fingers, you’ll find a variety of places around Lewisville ready to serve. The next time you’re craving mouthwatering barbecue, make plans to bring your appetite to these best barbecue joints in Lewisville.
Big Jack’s BBQ
Big Jack’s BBQ is a family-owned restaurant that has all of your favorite barbecue meals. If you decide to order one of the sandwiches, make sure you’re hungry because the restaurant serves up Texas-sized sandwiches. Some popular menu items include the big barbecue sandwich with two sides, the extra-large barbecue sandwich with two sides, and the rib sandwich with two sides. When you’re picking out your sides, you’ll find options that include barbecue beans, fried okra, potato salad, coleslaw, green beans, and corn on the cob.
If you’re feeding your family, the Wagon Meals To-Go offerings are sure to make everyone happy. The Mini Wagon includes one pound of meat, two sides, and four rolls. You can also opt for the Family Wagon, which has two pounds of meat, three sides, and six rolls. For those really big gatherings, go with the XXL Family Wagon, which gives you four pounds of meat, four sides, and 12 rolls. Big Jack’s BBQ is open every day except Tuesday for dine-in eating. The restaurant also offers takeout options so you can enjoy your barbecue anywhere.
Fat Cow BBQ
Two friends with a passion for delicious barbecue and service with a smile started Fat Cow BBQ. The business started by offering corporate catering. However, as demand for the barbecue continued to grow, it quickly became apparent that the friends would have to open a physical space. The first Fat Cow BBQ restaurant was 960 square feet and had three small tables. Today, the popular Lewisville barbecue joint has a sit-down restaurant that can accommodate more than 100 people.
All of the meats at this award-winning restaurant are smoked to perfection on-site. When you’re ready to savor some of this tasty barbecue, consider popular options like the sliced or chopped brisket, jalapeno sausage, beef sausage, hot links, sliced ham, pulled pork, smoked chicken, and baby back ribs. For the perfect ending to your meal, go with the peach cobbler, banana pudding, slice of pecan pie, or slice of apple pie for dessert.
Sullivan Texas BBQ
Sullivan Texas BBQ smokes its meat the old-fashioned way. That means the restaurant smokes in a pit using only post oak wood. This creates a clean smoke that makes the meat juicy, tender, and full of flavor. If you’re stopping by for lunch, consider the pulled pork sandwich or prime brisket sandwich. Another popular option is the Texas Sandwich, which includes prime brisket, sausage, and pulled pork topped with jalapenos and coleslaw.
If you’re in the mood for something specific, the one-meat plate lets you choose from prime brisket, turkey, pulled pork, or sausage. Can’t decide which delicious meat you want to enjoy? Then order the two-meat plate and select two of your favorites. If you’re ordering for a big group, you can also get your meat by the pound. The smoked turkey breast and smoked prime brisket come in sizes that range from five pounds to 10 pounds. Sullivan Texas BBQ is open Wednesday through Sunday.
Old House BBQ
Old House BBQ is a traditional pit barbecue restaurant that carefully prepares and cooks its meats each day to deliver the best quality and flavor. The cooks use only choice cuts of meat that come directly from local ranches and farms, including the best cuts for their award-winning brisket, open-range pigs for the ribs and ham, and free-range turkeys and chickens.
Some of the popular menu items at the restaurant are the barbecue rib plate, Big Tex sandwich, barbecue sliders, three-meat platter, and pulled pork sandwich. Your meal also includes your choice of two sides, with options like onion rings, smoked beans, pasta salad, potato salad, coleslaw, jalapeno pinto beans, and a twice-baked potato. Make sure you save room for dessert so you can savor some of the peach cobbler, banana pudding, or a slice of homemade pie.
If you’re feeding a group, consider one of the family packs. Your options include everything from the Mini Pack that has one pound of meat, two sides, and four rolls to the Large Pack, which has three pounds of meat, four sides, and eight rolls. Old House BBQ is open seven days a week for dine-in eating. You can also call ahead to place a takeout order.
Hard Eight BBQ
Hard Eight BBQ is a family-owned and operated barbecue spot that first opened in Stephenville in 2003. The Texas-style barbecue that comes straight from the pit became so popular that the restaurant soon expanded to other locations in the area, including a spot just 7 miles east of Lewisville in The Colony.
Some of the outstanding barbecue items on the Hard Eight menu include pork ribs, brisket, pulled pork, chicken half, regular or jalapeno sausage, turkey, and ham. You’ll also find a nice variety of side dishes, such as the jalapeno sweet corn, coleslaw, potato salad, and potato stuffed with brisket, sausage, ham, or turkey. You’ll even find a variety of other menu offerings, including shrimp poppers, chicken poppers, a 16-ounce rib-eye, and pork chops.
Plus, everyone will be able to satisfy his or her sweet tooth with one of the restaurant’s decadent desserts. You can treat yourself to banana pudding, strawberry cheesecake, chocolate pecan pie, Oreo mud pie, whiskey buttermilk pie, or cherry, apple, blackberry, or peach cobbler. Hard Eight BBQ is open seven days a week for dine-in eating. The restaurant also has to-go and curbside takeout options available.
When those of us at Huffines CJDR Lewisville are craving incredible barbecue, these are the restaurants around Lewisville we like to visit. Did we miss one of your favorite barbecue joints? Let us know so we can add it to our list!
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