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Terry Black's BarbecueH★
“4.7 across 27k Google reviews, and Yelp lands in the same place; named by Michelin Guide and James Beard Foundation.”
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Terry Black's BarbecueH★
bbq · Austin
Michelin GuideJBF · Best Chef: Texas '26
4.7 across 27k Google reviews, and Yelp lands in the same place; named by Michelin Guide and James Beard Foundation.
89/100Harry HungryScoreHarry's headline verdict, 0–100. How good the place actually is, once the loud reviews and the timid critics have cancelled each other out.
79/100Worth ItScoreWorth-It Score, 0–100. Whether the bill is fair for what lands on the table. High means good value; low means you're paying for the postcode.
Smart Spend. Harry scores Terry Black's Barbecue 89/100 for quality and 79/100 on the Worth It scale for Austin. No paid placements, no affiliate links — just the arithmetic.
Three sources, three big review counts, and they all land in the same narrow band — 4.7 on 26,645 Google reviews down to 4.5 on Yelp and Tripadvisor, which for a $$ barbecue joint with this kind of volume is a genuine crowd-pleaser signal, not a fluke. The Michelin listing and a 2026 JBF semifinalist nod for Best Chef Texas back that up with actual critical attention, so this isn't a case of a big tourist number papering over a shrug from anyone paying closer attention. No Tripadvisor rank given, so it's hard to say how it sits against Austin's other pits specifically, but the agreement across nearly 40,000 combined reviews is the real story here.