Lockhart Sausage appears as a signature dish in 1 United States cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Lockhart-Style Sausage · Austin
Coarse-ground beef and pork sausage, garlic-heavy and black-pepper-blasted, smoked over post oak alongside the brisket and sold by weight by the ring. The Central Texas BBQ joint side dish that travels home.
Lockhart-style smoked sausage traces to the Czech and German immigrant meat markets that anchored Central Texas BBQ from the 1880s onwards. Kreuz Market, Black's and Smitty's (all 50km from Austin in Lockhart) defined the style. Austin's modern BBQ wave, from Franklin to La Barbecue and Micklethwait, all run a defensible ring sausage in the same tradition.
Where to eat in Austin:
- Franklin Barbecue
- La Barbecue
- Micklethwait Craft Meats
- InterStellar BBQ