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Locals Know BBQ Food Tour in Austin Texas 2
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Austin BBQ Tour: 6 Tastings, Michelin Stops & Skip the Line

By Locals Know Barbecue Tour
10.0 out of 10
Exceptional
Free cancellation available
Price is S$224 per adult
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 3h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation

Overview

Six barbecue stops in East Austin — including a MICHELIN One Star joint and two Bib Gourmand smokehouses — with skip-the-line access at every one and an air-conditioned ride between them. No walking in Texas heat, no three-hour queue, and enough food that most guests tap out before the last plate.

la Barbecue holds a MICHELIN One Star and a line that wraps the building. Micklethwait Craft Meats is a Bib Gourmand honoree and one of Food Network's 25 Best Food Trucks. KG BBQ is chef Kareem El-Ghayesh, a James Beard semifinalist, smoking lamb with Middle Eastern spice. Mum Foods makes the pastrami Texas Monthly's barbecue editor calls the best in the state. Parish Barbecue brings Louisiana heat from a pitmaster who cooked at Franklin.

Then a sixth stop we don't announce. It's sweet. You'll think you're finished eating. You aren't.

Between plates, your guide tells you how East Austin was built and why these blocks became America's most argued-about barbecue.

Come hungry.

Activity location

  • KG BBQ
    • 3108 Manor Road
    • 78723, Austin, Texas, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • KG BBQ
    • 3108 Manor Road
    • 78723, Austin, Texas, United States

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Locals Know BBQ Food Tour in Austin Texas

  • Activity duration is 3 hours3h
    3h
  • English
Language options: English
Starting time: 10:45
Price details
S$224.47 x 1 AdultS$224.47
Total
Price is S$224.47
Until Fri, 7 Aug

BBQ Tour + Elevated Drink Pkg

  • Activity duration is 3 hours3h
    3h
  • English

Elevated Drink Pkg Add On: Upgrade your tour and sip your way through Austin’s finest with FIVE local small batch brews and smoky concoctions.

Language options: English
Starting time: 10:45
Price details
S$275.78 x 1 AdultS$275.78
Total
Price is S$275.78
Until Fri, 7 Aug

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    Luxury SUV for groups of 8 or fewer; minibus for larger groups
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Skip-the-line access at participating barbecue stops
  • What's includedWhat's included
    All restaurant taxes and service charge at tour stops
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Air-conditioned vehicle
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Local guide with East Austin food and area history
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Six food stops with generous tastings — enough for a full meal
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Service charge for your guide
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Alcoholic drinks (optional $35 drink package available at booking)
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Pick up and Drop Off

Know before you book

  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Guests using a wheelchair are welcome. All tour stops have wheelchair- and stroller-accessible surfaces, but our vehicle is not lift-equipped, so wheelchair users will need to follow the route in their own accessible transport. Contact us before booking and we'll share the full stop list and timing.
  • Children who require a car seat are welcome, but families will need to provide their own car seat and transport between stops.
  • Every guest who will be eating requires a ticket.
  • Some dietary needs can be accommodated with advance notice. Because our stops share kitchens and prep surfaces, we cannot safely guarantee accommodation for severe allergies. Please contact us before booking.
  • Please arrive 10 minutes before departure. Tours run on restaurant reservation times and cannot wait for late arrivals.

Activity itinerary

KG BBQ

  • 35m
Smoked lamb with Middle Eastern spice from chef Kareem El-Ghayesh, who took his Cairo upbringing into Central Texas barbecue. A MICHELIN Bib Gourmand honoree and a James Beard Award semifinalist for Best Chef: Texas.

Mum Foods Smokehouse And Delicatessen

  • 25m
Texas pastrami on house-made rye — called the best pastrami in the state by Texas Monthly barbecue editor Daniel Vaughn, at a deli USA Today named to its Restaurants of the Year list. Queens deli technique, Central Texas smoke.

la Barbecue

  • 25m
The MICHELIN One Star stop, and the reason the line wraps the building. You walk past it. Sausage ground and stuffed in-house, plus brisket from a joint that has held a place on Texas Monthly's Top 50 Barbecue Joints in Texas.

Micklethwait Barbecue

  • 25m
Start with brisket-stuffed kolaches and house-made sides at a MICHELIN Bib Gourmand smokehouse that Southern Living named a Top 50 barbecue joint and Food Network ranked among America's 25 Best Food Trucks. Owner Tom Micklethwait makes nearly everything by hand, down to the pickles.

Parish Barbecue

  • 25m
Louisiana flavour meets Texas tradition. Pitmaster Holden Fulco cooked at InterStellar Barbecue and Franklin Barbecue before opening his own lorry, and the menu shows both lineages.

Austin

  • 10m
A secret sweet stop: We don't announce this one. You'll think you're finished eating. You are not finished eating.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIES
    KG BBQ
    • 3108 Manor Road
    • 78723, Austin, Texas, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    KG BBQ
    • 3108 Manor Road
    • 78723, Austin, Texas, United States

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