2020 was the year that I loved restaurants — and the people who run them — more than ever. Restaurants also opened during the pandemic, sometimes because they could no longer afford to wait. 2Fifty Texas BBQ2Fifty Texas BBQ has to be the greatest success story of the pandemic. The meats pulled from Gonzalez’s 500-gallon, indirect-flow smoker are the best in the area, period. The co-founder might have been exaggerating a tad because, as best as I can tell, Spelunker’s is beloved throughout the region.

Source: Washington Post December 29, 2020 14:26 UTC