Darrell and Candi Boatman took a seven-year hiatus from the barbecue business. The couple closed Boatman’s BBQ in Tolar, near Granbury, in 2017, and moved to Red Oak, just south of Dallas, to open a different restaurant. When the taco shop next door to their Wicked Good Chicken closed, Darrell thought the layout looked right for a barbecue joint. They started the renovations earlier this year, and in June jumped back into the scene with the opening of Brisket City Craft BBQ.Barbecue just sort of found the Boatmans. Darrell and Candi were serving burgers out of a bar in Granbury in 2012 when they discovered an old smoker behind the place. It took two months of smoking briskets to make one good enough to sell…
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