Tell me About Brenham

[MaybeACoordinator 8350]

Beyond Blue Bell, baseball and craft beer and Truth BBQ and what seems like a higher than desirable quantity of Aggies. 

The downtown seems cool for a town of its size. 

Did you grow up there? Do you live there? Would you consider moving there?

[BottleRocket 659]

No.
No.
Hell no.

[BigHorn'13 3480]

The cops are aggressive and ticket happy. Just driving as normal will make you feel like a drug mule just trying to make it up the block.

Oh and fuck Blue Bell in their listeria ridden assholes. 

[4th&Five 41904]

It’s fine for 12 hours. Move there? You crazy?

[6th Street 6655]

Dude are you like 80 years old?

[Judge Roybeanbag 11856]

You do the crime you do the time.   They actually had that on billboards. Back in the day. 

[Judge Roybeanbag 11856]

Oh and if you’re black, get outta town and don’t come back. I forgot that one.  

[billfromlaketravis 11784]

Truth BBQ is worth the drive from Houston. The owner told me they're opening a new location in Houston at the site of the old J. Black's on Washington and Waugh. They appear to be taking their time, but it'll be the best BBQ spot Inside the Loop. 

The Blue Bell tour sucks now and they don't serve any rare flavors. You'll find better at HEB. 

96 West is pretty respectable restaurant for a town of its size. 

Brenham is a good day trip. Nothing more. 

[MaybeACoordinator 8350]

There has been a hipster invasion in the last couple of years. I think the aging old Krauts who run the place realized they needed to do something other than ticket tourists and pig out on Blue Bell. There's a really cool biergarten behind Home Sweet Farm restaurant (run by a couple who escaped Plano / McKinney and really love Brenham.) That's right across the street from Brazos Valley Brewing Company -- every county seat worth its salt malt now has one, and this one seems pretty good. Adjacent to all that they are remodeling a whole street of small warehouses into an arts district. It's loosening up, little by little. 

If you are sick of the city it doesn't seem like such a bad place to be -- in beautiful countryside, halfway between Austin and Houston. 

[kevwun 16269]

Must Be Heaven has really good sandwiches and pie.  It's downtown.

[Thetexashammer 1062]

People bag on small towns but I absolutely love being on the front porch at night looking out across the pasture and not hearing anything at all. I mean once in a while you hear a car or truck come down the highway. Crickets. Cows maybe mooing. There's just something very calming about it.

[Dark Horse 2407]

Must Be Heaven has really good sandwiches and pie.  It's downtown.

Must Be Heaven is still around? I ate there many times after baseball tournaments in the 90s.

[kevwun 16269]

Yep

[RPM 26560]

Is the Listeria Museum open yet?

[SydneyCarton 49325]

20 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Truth BBQ is worth the drive from Houston. The owner told me they're opening a new location in Houston at the site of the old J. Black's on Washington and Waugh. They appear to be taking their time, but it'll be the best BBQ spot Inside the Loop. 

Pinkerton's and Champ Kind say you need to tap the breaks there, guy. 

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

Pinkerton's and Champ Kind say you need to tap the breaks there, guy. 

And Willow’s.

[SydneyCarton 49325]

10 minutes ago, Patricio Swayze said:

And Willow’s.

Can't speak to that place, I haven't been yet, which is dumb considering Big Star Bar is a mile from my house. 

[ChampKind 1314]

21 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Truth BBQ is worth the drive from Houston. The owner told me they're opening a new location in Houston at the site of the old J. Black's on Washington and Waugh. They appear to be taking their time, but it'll be the best BBQ spot Inside the Loop. 

 

I've been hearing for almost a year that they are "about to open". Yet they just started actual construction at that site two weeks ago. And as to your proclamation that they'll be the best inside the loop, well, they'll be cooking on different style pits, in a different environment, with new guys running said pits, with an entirely different level of demand.  Might wanna slow your role until they've had the doors open for, I dunno, a day or two.  Meanwhile there are already three guys inside the loop turning out que that has been lauded by more than a few bbq experts

[ChampKind 1314]

37 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

Can't speak to that place, I haven't been yet, which is dumb considering Big Star Bar is a mile from my house. 

You need to check it out. Willow is a good dude and a damned fine bbq cook

[Chopper 17429]

Wife and I took a trip out to Antique Rose Emporium a few years ago. Even if you don't plan to buy anything it's an awesome plant nursery.