Fearless Critic restaurant review
Virgie’s
Expletive-inducing barbecue at Houston’s most Hill Country-esque smokehouse
Barbecue
Counter service
Hours
Wed–Sat 11:00am–6:30pm
Bar None
Credit cards Visa, MC, AmEx
www.virgiesbbq.com
Northwest Houston
5535 North Gessner Rd.
Houston, TX
(713) 466-6525
Houston’s got a wide array of cuisines to choose from, and many are done extremely well. But barbecue has remained a divisive issue—citing Houston’s clean-air laws (we have those?), purists insist smoked meats can never be as good here as in the Hill Country; loyalists, on the other hand, refuse…
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