When I walk into most of the BBQ places near me in Austin, I pretty much know what to expect. A good variety of meats and the three standard BBQ sides: potato salad, coleslaw, and pinto beans. Don’t get me wrong, these three sides are great and are a big part of the tradition of Texas BBQ, but sometimes I’m just looking for a little something more. If only there was a place that I could go where the options of the sides to go with my sumptuous smoked meats are more than 3…
Oh, but what about Pok-e-Jo’s! With 5 locations around the Austin area, one of the BBQ places near me in Austin is almost always a Pok-e-Jo’s, and with 16 side options, I can go every day of the year and not get the same combination of items if I so choose. In fact, with 7 meat options and 16 side options, there are 10,752 combinations I could make on the two-meat plate. How is that for variety?
The variety of options at Pok-e-Jo’s doesn’t end with the sides. Feeling like going healthy, but still want that smoked meat taste? The Chef Salad gets you a big old salad with hard-boiled egg, tomato, cheese, Texas Toast as the croutons, a dressing of your choice, and a quarter pound of whatever meat you want. What about something a little off the wall or unexpected? Try one of the turkey pot pies with smoked turkey breast, carrots, and green beans in gravy beneath a flaky crust. You could even go with a BBQ sandwich or a baked potato with one the meats added. If there is a BBQ place near me in Austin with more variety, I haven’t found it. Stop in and try to count side options yourself–you’ll need both hands and to take off both shoes to get them all!
Choosing the Right BBQ Restaurants Near Me
When you live in Central Texas, it seems like you can’t round a corner without running into BBQ restaurants near me. When faced with so many choices, how could anyone possibly choose? We’re here to help lay out the factors and show you that all signs point to you chowing down at the nearest Pok-e-Jo’s!
1. The Variety of Options
Let’s say you’re heading out to dinner with a significant other who only kind of likes BBQ (*gasp*), some kids who are looking to eat kid things, and your macho cousin who says he can eat two pounds of meat by himself. Come to Pok-e-Jo’s and we’ll set you up with a Super Spud with chopped beef, a couple kids meals (one mac and cheese plate, one kids brisket sandwich, naturally), and a Five Pack for your cousin to try to tackle all by his lonesome. This is all a long-winded way of saying that out of all the BBQ restaurants near me, Pok-e-Jo’s is the one that is ready to accommodate the whole family. So, bring it on, macho cousin… and significant other and kids.
2. Certified Fresh
No, we’re not talking about our Rotten Tomatoes score. We’re talking about all of our meats and sides, made fresh in each of our locations every day. Just ask any of our employees when you walk in and they’ll tell you about how that meat came off the pit just minutes or hours ago, never days! And the only Pok-e-Jo’s trucks you see out on the road will be delivering some BBQ straight to our customers, not from a production facility to a store. So, follow that truck to the BBQ restaurant near me that you need to know: Pok-e-Jo’s!
3. BBQ Within Reach
No matter where you live in Austin, you are only a short drive away from a Pok-e-Jo’s. With 5 locations, you won’t have to drive or wait long to scratch that smoked meat itch. Go ahead, search the map for BBQ restaurants near me.
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And now you see, you are near a Pok-e-Jo’s!
We could continue on, but we think you notice the trend… All roads lead to Pok-e-Jo’s.
FINDING THE POK-E-JO’S BBQ RESTAURANTS NEAR ME IN AUSTIN
If you’re looking for help finding all of the Pok-e-Jo’s BBQ restaurants near me in Austin, you’ve come to the right place–the right website even!
Just scroll up to the top of the page to the top menu of the website and check out our BBQ Locations page. From there, you can see all of our spots in one map and enter your ZIP code to find the Pok-e-Jo’s BBQ restaurants near me here in Austin.
And once you find us, we will make sure some of our BBQ gets near you. On a plate. What you do from there is up to you!
5 Simple Steps To Locate The BBQ Restaurant Nearby In Austin
1. Walk outside your house.
Presumably one of the BBQ restaurants nearby in Austin is not inside your house. If so, kudos to you. You have achieved peak Texan.
2. Close your eyes and search for the smell of smoke coming from the pit.
If that BBQ restaurant nearby in Austin doesn’t have smoke coming out of it somewhere, you may be better off going to the next closest one, which admittedly is likely only another couple minutes down the road. If you smell the smoke, skip straight to number 4. Don’t smell smoke? Proceed to number 3.
3. Since you can’t smell the smoke, the wind must be blowing in the wrong direction. Open your eyes and look for that smoke.
You can probably see either the crowd gathering or the smoke in the air. Walk towards that and you’ll be getting closer to that BBQ restaurant nearby in Austin.
4. Walk, bicycle, drive, run, gallop, do whatever you have to do to get yourself there.
5. Grub down on some of Texas’s signature cuisine–some smoked BBQ meats!
Considering our 5 locations, there’s a good chance that BBQ restaurant nearby in Austin is a Pok-e-Jo’s. That means you’re in luck, because we’ve had 39 years to work on our craft and I can say from personal experience that it’s pretty dang good.
