City Market
Luling's smoke-room sausage, sold on butcher paper
City Market is a barbecue restaurant in Austin, Texas.
City Market anchors Luling, a storied stop on the Central Texas barbecue belt where the ritual is half the meal. You order through a separate, smoke-hazed back pit room, meat gets sliced onto butcher paper, and the front counter runs on a cash-friendly, no-nonsense tradition older than most of the trailers now famous in Austin.
The house sausage is the legend — a coarse, juicy link with a snap and a spice profile that regulars drive out for by the ring. Brisket comes market-style with a firm bark, pork ribs bring the pork side of the board, and the white bread and pickles are the only garnish the place thinks you need. This is barbecue as a small-town meat market has always practiced it: unhurried, unadorned, and entirely sure of itself.
- Style: Central Texas Style
- Price: $
- Neighborhood: Luling
What to order
- House Sausage
- Brisket
- Pork Ribs
- White Bread and Pickles
How it scores — 8.4/10 overall
Visiting
- Address: 633 E Davis St, Luling, TX 78648
- Phone: (830) 875-9019
- Website: https://www.citymarketluling.com/
Hours: Mon–Sat 10am–6pm
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