Restaurant and barbecue joints often go through growing pains, but 2M Smokehouse is an outlier. Once childhood friends Joe Melig and Essaul Ramos opened the doors to their small barbecue temple in ...

Brisket like this comes just a few times every generation: full-fat, velveteen, salt-and-pepper brisket, the kind that made Texas barbecue famous. Native San Antonians Esaul Ramos and Joe Melig opened ...

On the menu: Brisket, pork spare ribs, pulled pork and turkey, $9-$10 by the half-pound; sausage, $5.50 a link; two-meat plate with two sides, $15; tacos, two for $8; sandwiches, $8-$10; sides, $3; ...

For great barbecue, there’s a price to pay. Standing in line. The prospect of the “sold out” sign. Thirty dollars for a single beef rib. ★★★★ Superior. Can compete nationally. ★★★ Excellent. One of ...

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At 2M Smokehouse in San Antonio, Esaul Ramos, and Joe Melig choreograph their bedtimes like tag-team wrestlers: one goes in, one comes out. It’s the only way to get any sleep when your barbecue ...