After helping run the original Schulze’s Bar-B-Que, in Rosenberg, the second-generation restaurateurs opened Schulze's Pit Room near San Antonio.

Daniel Vaughn, Texas Monthly's barbecue editor, visited 37 states and nearly 150 barbecue joints in search of the best.

Co-owners Brad Doan and his mother Belinda have turned 1775 Texas Pit BBQ into one of the best smoked meat purveyors in ...