Goode Co. Texas Bar-B-Q

5109 Kirby Dr., Houston, TX - (713) 522-2530

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Posted By Michael Stern on January 26, 2005 8:47 AM

Goode Co. isn't exactly a little-known name in the Houston food world. Driving south on Kirby from the city center, you pass Goode Co. Seafood and Good Co. Tacqueria, and there is another branch of Goode Co. Bar-B-Q on Katy Freeway. The place on Kirby is a large eating barn (with a nice covered outdoor patio) surrounded by stacks of wood and the perfume of smoldering mesquite. Inside, there's always a line leading to the cafeteria-style counter; but the line moves fast, because nearly everyone knows exactly what they want when they come here. Once you've eaten to Goode Co. barbecue, chances are good you will return for more.

Goode Co.'s fame is well deserved, especially for its brisket. This long-smoked meat is velvet-soft and radiant with essential beef flavor. It is so moist and delicious that sauce is superfluous, although Goode Co. does offer fairly spicy red stuff to pour on it if you wish. You can get this beef as part of a platter with superb, slightly sweet baked beans, potato salad, and jambalaya; or you can have it in a sandwich. While blah bread is de rigueur in most great barbecue parlors, Goode Co. offers a fantastic alternative: thick slices of fresh, soft jalapeno cheese bread that make a first-rate mitt for the smoky beef.

Other than brisket, the smoke pit menu lists Czech sausage, pork sausage, lean pork ribs, ham, chicken, sweet water duck, spicy pork, turkey breast, and turkey sausage. The pecan pie served for dessert is legendary.

Mesquite, pecan and oak wood are available by the bundle, in chunks or logs, for do-it-yourselfers to take home.

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Posted By Kathleen Kennedy on March 27, 2005 4:32 PM

We live about 60 miles from Goode's and it's never too far to drive for dinner there. The service is efficient. The ambience is charming and the food is heavenly. There's nothing like sitting outside in front of the fans with a hoard of other customers people watching and enjoying succulent BBQ.

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