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Texas Monthly – A Texas Pitmaster Started a Barbecue Hotline, but His Callers Don’t Talk About Meat

Texas Monthly – A Texas Pitmaster Started a Barbecue Hotline, but His Callers Don’t Talk About Meat

Posted on June 20, 2025

Illustration of a phone on a red checkered tableclothTodd David has found that when professional pitmasters seek advice, it’s rarely about smoking meat. “No one asks about cooking barbecue,” he says of the conversations he’s been having through his new resource, Nextep Q. David launched the site to give back to the barbecue community that helped him build Cattleack Barbeque, in Farmers Branch, a suburb of Dallas, into a successful business. Think of it like a free hotline for barbecue joint owners in need of advice, with David always on the other end of the line.David opened Cattleack with his wife, Misty, in 2013 and sold it to longtime employee Andrew Castelan a decade later. The restaurant has been on our Top 50 barbecue joints list every time it has been eligible. What…

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