About Best of Texas
Independently reported, obsessively ranked guides to eating, swimming, driving and wandering across all 254 Texas counties.
Best of Texas started in 2019 as an argument about barbecue that got out of hand. Six years later it is a small newsroom that ranks things across all 254 counties, funded entirely by readers.
We are not a listicle farm. Every guide is reported in person, every place is visited twice, and every ranking has a stated method you can read and disagree with. Here is exactly how we work.
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Corrections and closures: corrections@bestoftexasguides.com. Nominations for a future guide go through Nominate a Spot. We read everything; we cannot reply to everything.