Restaurant
Franklin Barbecue
Backyard-smoker-turned-institution serving slow post oak brisket after hours-long lines.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Franklin Barbecue in Austin follows Aaron Franklin from a would-be rock musician working construction jobs in the mid nineteen-nineties to the pitmaster behind the trailer that opened here in two thousand nine. It traces backyard cookouts with his wife, Stacy, and years of tinkering with a smoker before the business grew into brick and mortar. You will hear about the line that still forms outside. Notice the building's paint job, a quiet callback to where it all started.
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