Vital Stats
Date: 22 May 2016
Location: NRG Park, Green Lot
BBQ Joints: 26
Guests: 2500
Food Trays used: 50,000
Square feet of tents: 15,000
Incredible time lapse video from our friends at Blood Bros. BBQ!
"Last week we made it 3 for 3 at the Red Dirt BBQ Festival in Tyler. This week we made it 4 for 4 at the Houston BBQ Festival.
The folks in Houston seem to have organized the smoothest running event we have been to yet. Even Texas Monthly could learn some tricks here."
Don O's Texas BBQ blog - 23 May 2016
Participants
BBQ Godfather
Brisket, turkey, sweet potato casserole, burnt ends mac-n-cheese
Blake's BBQ & Burgers
Brisket & homemade sausage
Blood Bros. BBQ
Gochujang beef belly, beef ribs, creamed corn
The Brisket House
Brisket & beef ribs
Brooks' Place BBQ
Smoked oxtails, onion bomb
CorkScrew BBQ
Brisket, turkey, sausage
El Burro & the Bull
Smoked pork tamalito on a bed of roasted corn
Fainmous BBQ
Brisket & pulled pork
Feges BBQ
Whole hog & steamship beef round
Gatlin's BBQ
Brisket & baby back ribs
Gerardo's Drive-in
Barbacoa tacos
Harlem Road Texas BBQ
Pork belly & beef rib
Jackson Street BBQ
Jalapeno cheese biscuit slider with brisket
Killen's Barbecue
Brisket, turkey sausage, pork short ribs
Lenox Bar-B-Que
Brisket & sausage
Louie Mueller Barbecue
Beef ribs & jalapeno sausage
Pappa Charlies Barbeque
Short rib burnt ends, prime rib, brisket, sausage
Pinkerton's Barbecue
Smoked alligator, brisket, smoked & fried boudin balls
Pizzitola's Bar-B-Cue
Pork ribs, pulled pork, chopped beef slider
Ray's BBQ Shack
Brisket, pork ribs, boudin & fried corn on the cob
Roegels Barbecue Co.
Reuben sandwich bite (pastrami), brisket & sausage
Southside Market & BBQ
Sausage slammers, Elgin sausage, brisket
Spring Creek Barbeque
Brisket, pork ribs, bacon-wrapped jalapeno poppers
Tejas Chocolate (& BBQ)
Brisket, pastrami, carrot souffle, chocolate panna cotta
Tin Roof BBQ
Smoked sirloin, brisket tacos, baby back ribs
The Wooden Spoke
Jalapeno & cheese sausage and pulled pork slider
"It wasn't just all the excellent BBQ that was celebrated last weekend, but something much more worthy. Long lasting friendships and relationship were the star of the festival. That's what makes The Houston Barbecue Festival so special."
The Barry Farm blog - 28 May 2016
"With the support of donors and supporters like Burnt Brisket LLC for the residents of Vita-Living, we were able to create a unique social activity and interaction space for the residents, open now as the Vita-Living Center."
Joseph Cooper, Chief Executive Officer, Vita-Living, Inc. - 9 June 2016
On behalf of our volunteers, sponsors, partners, and the barbecue community, the Houston Barbecue Festival is honored to support the activities of Vita-Living in their care for developmentally disabled adults.
Please consider contributing at www.vitaliving.org
Burnt Brisket LLC
Organizer of 4th Annual Houston Barbecue Festival
We are a grassroots, Houston-local organization committed to recognizing and promoting the hard work and dedication of Houston's barbecue pitmasters and restaurants. We believe Houstonians and Houston barbecue lovers deserve a world-class festival worthy of our city and our barbecue.
We thank the volunteers, partners, sponsors, guests, media, and barbecue restaurants for helping us to make this happen.