Texas and Oklahoma.
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10 places
Rooms you can walk into, ranked the way I would send you.
Key: what the badges mean
★ Michelin star · Bib Bib Gourmand · Green ★ Michelin Green Star · Michelin in the Michelin guide, no distinction · J Jeff's own note · Jeff ★★★★☆ 2019 his own rating out of five, and the year he gave it · new the venue itself opened recently · just added recently added to Jeff's list, whatever its age · 2◆ independent chef/industry recommendations · ! hygiene caution in force · ? no current public hygiene record, not a caution · keep walking Jeff has been and would walk past it · the line under a name says when to go: Destination (plan around it) / Solid (the dependable send) / Listed (on the radar). Under it, where the entry states one: how the room takes bookings, and the date I last checked the entry.
The whole list.
Every room saved here, by where it is. 10 of them.
East Texas4
Texarkana keeps a brewery, Bryce's cafeteria line and Naaman's pit on the Arkansas line, and Bryan grills burgers at Top of the Hill.
Bryan · 1
West Texas2
Bordo sells Italian goods in Marfa out in the Big Bend, and Evie Mae's smokes brisket at Wolfforth on the edge of Lubbock.
Marfa · 1
Wolfforth · 1
The Rio Grande Valley2
Ana Liz griddles tacos in Mission and CastleHill cooks at Edinburg, down where the river turns for the Gulf.
Edinburg · 1
Mission · 1
Oklahoma2
Bricktown Brewery pours in downtown Oklahoma City, and Oklahoma Joe's smokes at Broken Arrow outside Tulsa.