Central Texas BBQ · Portland

Brisket. Ribs.
Sausage.

Smoked over post oak for fourteen hours. Sold out by 4, usually.

Sundays only11 till sold out Next locationRuse Brewing
[ Photo · brisket on butcher paper ]

Sundays only.

We're a one-man operation working out of a 500-gallon offset smoker. We do Sundays only because that's what one smoker can do.

May 25
Wayfinder Beer
304 SE 2nd Ave
11am — sold out
Jun 1
Great Notion (NW)
2444 NW 28th Ave
11am — sold out
Jun 8
Ruse Brewing
4784 SE 17th Ave
11am — sold out
Jun 15
Off — Father's Day
(Smoker needs a day too.)

The smoker.

I built it in 2019 in a friend's garage in Tigard. It's a 500-gallon propane tank cut in half, set on a trailer, with a firebox welded onto the right side. It runs on post oak that comes from a guy in Camas who drops a cord on my driveway every other month.

The fire starts at 9pm Saturday night. I sleep next to it. Service starts Sunday at 11. We sell what we have until we don't have it.

I'm Dan. I do this alone, mostly. If you see somebody else slicing, it's my brother Mike — he helps when he's in town.

[ Photo · the smoker, smoke coming off ]

Four rules.

  1. Get there early.

    Brisket goes first. By 1pm on a good day there's nothing left but ribs and beans.

  2. Don't ask for sauce.

    It's on the table. Try the meat first.

  3. Bring cash if you can.

    Card works. Cash is faster, and the line is long.

  4. Eat it within an hour.

    Brisket waits for no one. Bark gets sad in the fridge.

Bigger jobs.

We do whole-hog and brisket-for-30 events on Mondays and Tuesdays. Minimum four weeks notice. Tell me about it.