Southside Market

1212 Highway 290, Elgin, TX - (512) 285-3407

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Posted By Michael Stern on October 22, 2008 4:55 PM

Elgin sausage is known far and wide as the best in the west. For more than a century, the town of Elgin (say it with a hard G, as in gut) has been famous for all-beef links that are pit-cooked, smoky, and succulent. The Southside Market has been Elgin's primary meat market since 1882.

It used to be a creaky, sawdust-floored store downtown, but about five years ago the Southside Market moved to a huge, spanking clean, barn-size building on the outskirts of town. While the new place lacks the charm of a well-aged and charmingly dilapidated house of barbecue, it still has a working butcher shop on premises, and it still smokes sausage and beef brisket the old-fashioned way, in big iron pits over slow-smoldering post oak wood. Order your meat by the pound at the pit and carry it to a table.

The sausage is spectacular – vividly spiced, taut, and moist beyond description; but don’t ignore the sliced beef; it too is luscious and flavorful, needing no companion other than a few slices of white bread just to mop its juices.

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Posted By don harmon on January 5, 2011 12:33 PM

I just completed a 10 day tour of the Texas BBQ Trail. I rated Southside as the second best...just behind the Salt Lick witch took the top honors because of their sauce. Southside was my first stop and it was truly impressive. And the brisket was tender, juicy and tasty. Just right in my book. I added some of their BBQ sauce which I found just average. Their setup and handling of crowds was what blew my mind. Like a state fair set up to handle the crowds. Would definately stop again when in that part of Texas. Would not say the same for all of the Texas BBQ places that I ate at.

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