Many of you have probably read about the recent fire at Boogies via Chili Bob's Houston Eats or the Robb Walsh Blog. I went last week to see how things were progressing. I spoke with Boogie late last Tuesday afternoon. The bad news is that he is still not smoking.
His plans for the addition to the pit are at the city. Once they are approved, he should finish the pit and get inspected. I was not going to walk out of there empty-handed, and I really don't want to see this guy go under. I felt compelled to buy something, so I settled for a hamburger/fry/drink combo, which was $7 and change.
Fortunately, the hamburger I had was worth the drive. It was a massive, hand-formed patty cooked on the griddle. He toasted the buns on the griddle as well, and they had a nice brown glaze. I had him add just mustard, lettuce and tomatoes to it. Apparently cheese was standard as it was put on there as well. The burger was quite juicy, but not a mess. That made consumption in the car tolerable, as he is take-out only these days. The fries appeared hand-cut? If not, they are better than average. The meat was cooked til it was just a bit pink in a several places.
I asked him if he thought it would be a month or so until he was smoking on the new brick, wood-only pit. He said that he couldn't really wait that long,
as the lack of business from the trailer burning was really hurting him. When I asked him about the trailer, he did affirm that it was being rebuilt, and he would have both the brick and mortar and the trailer in operation soon. He said that quality would be top notch, as everything would be done in-house. He took my name and number, remarking that he had about 400 email addresses so far of people that wanted to know when he would be smoking again. He flipped through a big notebook to oneof the last pages to write down my name and e-mail address by hand. I told him that I would get the word out once he was smoking again, but he asked me to "twitter that burger" if you can. Here you go Boogie. I hope that your awesome cue is available soon.
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