The Best Beer Garden In Texas & the whole USA, because it is. Nothing comes close!
The Ice House is an Austin style beer garden and restaurant, located in the heart of uptown Dallas on the Katy Trail. A fifty foot long bar boasts fifty beers on tap, ranging from Texas Domestics to Regional and International Imports on the draw. We have been awarded the best patio in Dallas with our open seating communal beer garden.
Our BBQ Story
The day Katy Ice House opened its doors in 2011 with a simple philosophy —Sell ICE COLD BEER! We knew that to accompany our frosty schooners we would need to serve outstanding TEXAS BBQ. Slow smoked fresh daily and never carried from day-to-day, our pit-masters work endlessly to bring to our customers’ tables the best BBQ in Texas in the old Central Texas style using only aged post oak wood. At first starting on a homemade smoker, our quest for great BBQ led us to world class pit builder and international BBQ judge, David Klose. In 2013, our pit-masters began working with Mr. Klose in order to really perfect our BBQ and our original pit was replaced with a custom Klose designed smoker… affectionately referred as “The Beast.” Today you will find our pit-masters utilizing all they have learned to make some of the best BBQ around.
Why We Run Out... On Purpose
Fresh BBQ and long smoke times have become foreign to North Texas. It is just too expensive and labor intensive for most places to make Real Texas BBQ. It is the rule that most “‘so-called” BBQ restaurants carry their products from day-to-day, use natural gas with very little wood and use an automated process cooking a brisket in about 5 hours. This produces that tasteless dry BBQ that we are all familiar with. NOT AT THE Ice House! We stay up all night to make our BBQ. It takes us up to 18 hours. We use only aged post oak wood—no gas. Once made, after 6 hours or so, BBQ begins to decline like a fine wine that has passed its peak. We wish to serve only the finest BBQ available in the State of Texas and only at its peak. This is why the legendary BBQ joints in Texas all run out... On Purpose.
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