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Beef ribs were my go-to at County Line in the 90s.  They were decent, the sides were good, the place wasn't a dump, and it was just about as good as it got in Austin.  Certainly better than Ruby's (Rudy's didn't exist).  Maybe below House Park or a couple of east side joints, I didn't really get much of a chance to try those.  Had a couple of OK plates from Sam's.  What else was there w/o going out of town?  Oh yeah, Logan's.  That was hangover food.  Bert's, that was better.

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3 hours ago, utee94 said:

and various locations of The Pit.

My then-girlfriend worked at The Pit on 5th.  It had a common hallway with some politico bar -- O Henry's? -- and we'd go back there and drink boilermakers and other old politician drinks with famous Capitol dudes cheating on their wives.

The bbq was not good.  The girlfriend?  Much better.

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Since we're waxing 90s BBQ nostalgia, the best BBQ I remember eating during my time at UT in the early 90s is the brisket and sausage my mom would pick up from that little roadside shack on the Austin side of the 71 overpass in La Grange.  It was pretty great by early 90s standards.  He died a few years after I graduated, but that became a regular stop on my Austin--Houston travels.  

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8 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

Beef ribs were my go-to at County Line in the 90s.  They were decent, the sides were good, the place wasn't a dump, and it was just about as good as it got in Austin.  Certainly better than Ruby's (Rudy's didn't exist). 

so in the aughts did CL get worse or did Ruby’s get better? 

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22 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

My then-girlfriend worked at The Pit on 5th.  It had a common hallway with some politico bar -- O Henry's? -- and we'd go back there and drink boilermakers and other old politician drinks with famous Capitol dudes cheating on their wives.

The bbq was not good.  The girlfriend?  Much better.

The Pits were all franchised with very little oversight and had wildly different quality from site to site.  Richard Jones owned a few but most of the others were single-owners.  Some of them were actually pretty good.

 

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23 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

My then-girlfriend worked at The Pit on 5th.  It had a common hallway with some politico bar -- O Henry's? -- and we'd go back there and drink boilermakers and other old politician drinks with famous Capitol dudes cheating on their wives.

The bbq was not good.  The girlfriend?  Much better.

Did she smell like hickory smoke all the time?  ThaT might get old after a while. 

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1 hour ago, Lhorn said:

Did she smell like hickory smoke all the time?  ThaT might get old after a while. 

She probably tasted like hickory smoke, which could be adverse depending on the day. 

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On 3/17/2025 at 10:43 AM, jimmyjazz said:

Beef ribs were my go-to at County Line in the 90s.  They were decent, the sides were good, the place wasn't a dump, and it was just about as good as it got in Austin.  Certainly better than Ruby's (Rudy's didn't exist).  Maybe below House Park or a couple of east side joints, I didn't really get much of a chance to try those.  Had a couple of OK plates from Sam's.  What else was there w/o going out of town?  Oh yeah, Logan's.  That was hangover food.  Bert's, that was better.

Ben's. Used to go often at lunch or to grab dinner to take home. 

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