Slaughter’s BBQ joins Texas BBQ Trail, first in NE Tex
Fame continues to grow for Slaughter’s BBQ Oasis in Sulphur Springs as this year they join the prestigious Texas Barbecue Trail.
“A culinary road trip of the most delicious kind… the Texas BBQ Trail is an intimate experience that allows you to see the wonderful small towns sprinkled across Texas,” Texas BBQ website boasts.
Previously restricted to central Texas, this year Slaughter’s puts Northeast Texas on the map for the first time.
“We are the only BBQ spot in Northeast Texas that’s featured,” owner David Slaughter noted.
The self-guided road trip meanders from Austin to Sulphur Springs, where every year hundreds of tourists eat their way across Texas’s best BBQ joints.
“I’m extremely excited to be a part of the BBQ trail,” Slaughter enthused.
This is not the first top tier accolade Slaughter’s has garnered recently.
The local eatery was featured in Texas Monthly in 2018, and was named a Texas Monthly Top 10 BBQ Joint. In 2021, Slaughter’s made it to the Dallas Observer’s summer BBQ road trip series and end-of-summer retrospective.
This is not to mention local awards and cookoff prizes: two spots on WFAA including Trey’s Chow Down, two write ups in County Line Magazine, features in local media and local cooking prizes such as the Back-to-School Burger Bash in 2019, Grill Boys in 2020, the Salute to Veterans cookoff in 2020 and Cowtown Burger Showdown in 2021.
However, for Slaughter and the crew at the BBQ oasis, more important than prizes is recognition and service to their hometown.
“We hope to draw in BBQ fanatics to Sulphur Springs, TX,” Slaughter said.
“At the end of the day, what means everything is representing Sulphur Springs,” he said in 2022.
The 2023 Texas BBQ Trail debuts January 19 in Sulphur Springs, Austin, Taylor, Elgin and more.
Visit Slaughter’s BBQ Oasis at 1000 Gilmer Street, Sulphur Springs, TX, call 903-243-7187 or email sbbqoasis@gmail.com to learn more. Slaughter’s is open daily from 10 a.m. until the food is gone and includes BBQ and daily specials.
By Taylor Nye. Photos from Slaughter’s BBQ on social media
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