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I dunno Handymike. I make every effort to avoid Houston, which has it all: Too many people, too much traffic that is even worse than LA, high crime, and high humidity. And Dallas is not much better, if any.
From Union Station in Dallas, you can take the TRE train to downtown Fort Worth and then pick up a city bus at the Fort Worth Intermodal Station to the Fort Worth Historic Stockyard. Walk around the eclectic area. Visit ML Leddy's store. Eat at Joe T Garcias Mexican Restaurant or the Cattlemen's Steak House. Fort Worth is truly a Texas city, but Dallas is basically a lesser version of NYC located in the heart of N Texas. 
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If you are looking for a nice restaurant to entertain clients, one of our favorite places is Maguire's in N Dallas just off the Dallas North Tollway if you are in that part of town.
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Sonny Bryan's with several locations in the DFW metroplex, including downtown Dallas at the West End. The original Sonny's was just down the street from Parkland Hospital where I was an ENT surgery resident in the early 1970's, and it was the responsibility of the junior resident to get take out BBQ for himself and the intermediate resident also on call at Parkland.
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Memphis! Cannot recall the name of the place, but it's within easy walking distance of the famous hotel ducks.
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The name of the BBQ place in Memphis is the Rendezvous that is in the basement of a building in an alley across the street from the Peabody Hotel, and was a frequent haunt of mine while I was in medical school there. IMHO the best BBQ places in the world are the Rendezvous in Memphis and Sonny Bryan's in Dallas.
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It is, particularly at the original Sonny's on Inwood Road where there are chairs on the inside like the ones used during grammar school and large picnic tables outside. When I was in medical school in Memphis, the Rendezvous was just a hole in the wall place then but has become a huge tourist attraction over the years, much like the Peabody Hotel ducks.
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I've been to Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Missouri, and New Mexico, but still not Texas for some reason.
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The name of the BBQ place in Memphis is the Rendezvous that is in the basement of building in an alley across the street from the Peabody Hotel, and was a frequent haunt of mine while I was in medical school there. IMHO the best BBQ places in the world are the Rendezvous in Memphis and Sonny Bryan's in Dallas.
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That's the place! I almost mentioned that it was in the basement, but decided to leave that out.
My wife, who is from NYC, went in there with my family and myself saying that she really isn't a BBQ person. However, when they brought her ribs and put rolls on the table, she did not resurface for, at least, a half an hour.
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Texas rocks. It's one of my favourite states, and I've been fortunate to visit a great many.
The food is superb. I went on a food tour of various restaurants and had the best southern fried chicken ever! Then it was to another place and it was the best pulled pork BBQ I've ever had! Then superb tacos. It ended with the biggest, best DIY S'mores that I had no idea could be a dessert unto themselves! Gorged. I'm no glutton but it was just a shame to be be full so I couldn't enjoy tasting more. And the people are so nice. Southern Hospitality isn't just a term of days gone by. It's alive and well.
The food is superb. I went on a food tour of various restaurants and had the best southern fried chicken ever! Then it was to another place and it was the best pulled pork BBQ I've ever had! Then superb tacos. It ended with the biggest, best DIY S'mores that I had no idea could be a dessert unto themselves! Gorged. I'm no glutton but it was just a shame to be be full so I couldn't enjoy tasting more. And the people are so nice. Southern Hospitality isn't just a term of days gone by. It's alive and well.
One of the main differences between ribs at the Rendezvous in Memphis and Sonny Bryan's in Dallas is that the ribs at the Rendezvous are "dry" whereas the ribs at Sonny's are "wet" at least before adding BBQ sauce that is unique to each place. I will say that if I were pressed to make a choice between the two, I prefer dry ribs served at the Rendezvous over Sonny's, although both are great!
Does anyone recall the movie "Fried Green Tomatoes" and the statement "the secret's in the sauce" when a really nasty, bad guy was the recipe?
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Man I tried to do my own dry rub on some ribs...absolute disaster and a real shame. Tasted like eating the contents of a vacuum bag. And I can grill to the nuts. Ribs are a different animal though. You need to finesse the Hell out of them. I love dry ribs but can't get it right to save my life.
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