This story was originally published in January 2022 and has been updated. The Metroplex is too big for just one barbecue guide. The Fort Worth area already got its own, so this one is dedicated to Dallas and its many suburbs, which are packed with smoked-meat stops both old and new. We have our favorites, of course. In the June 2025 issue, we published our list of the top fifty barbecue joints, along with fifty more honorable mentions, but our barbecue recommendations don’t stop there. You can get a great meal at any one of the joints below.In the City of DallasHeim BarbecueThe Heims ushered Fort Worth into the modern barbecue movement with their tender brisket, colossal beef ribs, and famous bacon burnt ends, though…

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Todd David has found that when professional pitmasters seek advice, it’s rarely about smoking meat. “No one asks about cooking barbecue,” he says of the conversations he’s been having through his new resource, Nextep Q. David launched the site to give back to the barbecue community that helped him build Cattleack Barbeque, in Farmers Branch, a suburb of Dallas, into a successful business. Think of it like a free hotline for barbecue joint owners in need of advice, with David always on the other end of the line.David opened Cattleack with his wife, Misty, in 2013 and sold it to longtime employee Andrew Castelan a decade later. The restaurant has been on our Top 50 barbecue joints list every time it has been eligible. What…

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