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Fire Couldn’t Stop This Dallas Barbecue Boss. Baby Back Shak Is Back.
When Baby Back Shak caught fire in February 2024, it was nearly catastrophic. In the Cedars, the neighborhood where it resides, the smell of smoking meats often wafts through in a white plume, but that day, something was different.
-Eater Dallas | March 5, 2025
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9 Black-Owned BBQ Restaurants in Dallas
The small joint focuses on a Memphis-style barbecue with southern influences in offerings like Cajun Boudin ... [and] award-winning ribs...
-Central Track | June 12, 2020
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100 Best Dallas Restaurants of 2020
-A half slab at this 23-year-old Cedars barbecue joint means seven baby back ribs kissed with smoke, spiced with pepper and just-right tender...
-Dallas Observer
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Top 100 Restaurants 2019
-Great Neighborhood Spots
-Dallas Observer
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2016 Best Barbecue
-We examined rings, pinched bark, and eschewed sauce to find the purveyors of the tastiest smoked meats in the city.
-D Magazine
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The Real Pitmasters of Dallas, 2016
Meet some of the city's best smokers...
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SPIKE TV's Hungry Investors, 2014
-The Baby Back Shak in Dallas, TX has some of the best ribs that our Hungry Investors have ever tasted...
-Hungry Investors
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Best BBQ in North Texas, 2014
-The Dallas Morning News’ BBQ Posse includes Baby Back Shak in its top picks...
-KERA News
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Dallas' Five Best Barbecued Pork Ribs, 2014
-These ones will give you a spicy mouth-punch that you're not ready for, and then crumble off the bone in a most appealing fashion. Top marks.
-Dallas Observer
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100 Favorite Dishes, No. 57: Rib "Sandwich" at Baby Back Shak
...when all those flavors danced together as one it was phenomenal.
-Dallas Observer, 2014
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2010 Best Barbecue
-We examined rings, pinched bark, and eschewed sauce to find the purveyors of the tastiest smoked meats in the city.
-D Magazine
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2008 Best Ribs
-What started out as a backyard barbecue for family on Sundays has emerged into the best place to gnaw on a slab of ribs in Dallas....
-Dallas Observer
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