The closing comes as the partners behind San Antonio’s Michelin-recognized BBQ joint are parting professional ways.
The Castroville barbecue restaurant Blu Lacy Smokehouse, a spinoff of the Michelin -recognized 2M Smokehouse in San Antonio , is closing and rebranding as Castroville Barbecue Co . on Saturday. The change comes as 2M Smokehouse founders and high-school buddies Esaul Ramos Jr.
and Joe Melig IV are parting ways as business partners. Melig and his wife, Selah Melig, will own and operate Castroville BBQ. Ramos and his wife, Grecia, will continue to own and operate 2M Smokehouse. Ramos and Melig each characterized the split as a crossroads, not a conflict. “All the experience that Joe's gained working working together at 2M, everything that we did there, what we did at Blu Lacy? I don't see it going anywhere else but up,” Ramos said of Castroville Barbecue Co. BBQ REVIEW: Barbecue worth a road trip at Blu Lacy Smokehouse “On the other hand, I want to focus on what I’m most passionate about,” he said. “ is my baby. It's something that I don't want it to be neglected for longer than it was. So as of right now, I'm back on the pits. I'm back on the fires.” Melig set the same tone for the new arrangement. “There's no bad blood,” he said. “We've had a great run as a team. His family and everybody at 2M still have all my support with whatever they need, and I know I have theirs. I'm excited for the future of 2M, and I'm excited for the future of Castroville Barbecue Co.” Ramos and Melig opened 2M Smokehouse on South W.W. White Road in 2016 after two years of doing barbecue pop-ups together. Their style of Texas Hill Country barbecue with Tex-Mex flair caught on quickly with San Antonio and Texas barbecue hounds, rising to the top of my list Top 10 San Antonio barbecue joints. The nation followed, with two James Beard Award nominations for Ramos as Best Chef Texas, building to last year’s recognition of 2M Smokehouse by the first-ever Texas Michelin Guide as a Bib Gourmand destination for great food and good value. TOP 10 BBQ: San Antonio’s best barbecue They opened Blu Lacy Smokehouse in 2023 in Castroville, 35 miles to the west of San Antonio. Blu Lacy earned a four-star review in the Express-News, where I praised the shop for forging its own identity: “Blu Lacy is not 2M2, not 2MSquared, not 2M: The Empire Strikes Back. A cutter at the new shop put it to bed like this: Blu Lacy is ‘country barbecue.’ 2M is ‘Tex-Mex barbecue.’ ” Once Castroville Barbecue Co. officially rebrands with a party on Saturday, Melig said the restaurant will keep the same hours, with a menu that will continue to feature oak-smoked brisket, ribs and sausage by veteran pitmaster Marcus Cruz. The restaurant will evolve in three stages, Melig said, focusing first on new side dishes, then fine-tuning the meats, then concentrating on growing the bar program. The Castroville bakery called Baked By Chef Grecia Ramos, founded by Culinary Institute of America graduate Grecia Ramos at the same time as Blu Lacy, will continue to operate. Castroville Barbecue Co., 1303 Lorenzo St., Castroville, 830-359-8720, Facebook: Castroville BBQ Co. Instagram: @castrovillebbqcompany 2M Smokehouse, 2731 S. W.W. White Road, 210-885-9352, 2msmokehouse.com
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