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Food
7.7
Feel
5.0
Price
$15
Rudy’s Country Store
The best gas-station barbecue around, with particularly good breakfast tacos
Barbecue
Counter service

Hours
Sun–Thu 6:00am–9:30pm
Fri–Sat 6:00am–10:30pm

Features Kid-friendly, outdoor dining
Bar Beer
Credit cards Visa, MC, AmEx

www.rudys.com

Northwest Houston
14620 Northwest Fwy.
Houston, TX
(713) 462-3337

Spring
20806 IH-45 North
Spring, TX
(281) 288-0916
Hours
Daily 7:00am–10:00pm

It sure doesn’t look like a barbecue joint—never mind a barbecue chain. It doesn’t even look like a “Country Store.” Really, Rudy’s just looks like a gas station complete with convenience store. And yet it is a growing barbecue-and-gas empire that has proliferated not only across Texas, but even into…

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