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Chuck Charnichart is an American restaurateur and pitmaster.

Early life and education

Charnichart's parents, Bethoven and Francisca Charnichart, emigrated from San Luis Potosí, Mexico, to Brownsville, Texas in 1997. Her father was a restaurant cook on South Padre Island. Charnichart was their first child born in the US. She has three siblings. The family lived in a trailer park. She worked at a Taco Bell.

Charnichart attended the University of Texas at Austin, where she studied marketing. She first tasted Central Texas-style smoked brisket while in Austin.

Career

While in college Charnichart worked front of house at Franklin Barbecue. While studying abroad in Norway she worked in an Oslo smokeless barbecue restaurant. When she returned from Norway, she worked at Fort Worth's Goldee’s BBQ, which in 2021 was named the state's best barbecue restaurant by Texas Monthly; owner and pitmaster Jonny White became a mentor. When White temporarily closed Goldee's while on vacation, he offered her the opportunity to use the space for a concept of her own, and she created a pop-up version of her vision for Barbs B Q.

Charnichart is the pitmaster of Barbs B Q in Lockhart, Texas, which she opened with partners in 2023.

Recognition

In 2022, Texas Monthly's taco editor Jose Ralat wrote that Barbs B Q's version of green spaghetti, which Charnichart created based on her mother's recipe, "might be the single best dish I ate all year". The restaurant was named one of the twelve best new restaurants in the U.S. by Eater in 2023. In 2023 Garden & Gun called her "arguably the top brisket cook working in Texas today".

In 2024 Bon Appetit named Charnichart their 2024 "Chef of the Moment", saying she was "reshaping barbecue". In 2024, Barbs B Q was named one of the best new restaurants of 2024 by Bon Appétit one of the best restaurants in the country by The New York Times, and was a semifinalist in the Best New Restaurant category of the James Beard Foundation Awards.

See also

• Barbecue in Texas

References

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2. ^ Portman, Jed (February 2023). "Meet the Young Texas Pitmaster Cooking Up a Dynamic Future for Barbecue". Garden & Gun. Retrieved 2024-12-12.
3. Torres, Anthony; Zamora, Esmeralda (2024-09-30). "Lockhart BBQ joint makes list of best US restaurants, blends Mexican flavors to create unique Texas taste". KXAN Austin. Retrieved 2024-12-13.
4. ^ Sontag, Elazar (2024-12-09). "6 Rising Chefs on Their First Year in Business". Bon Appétit. Retrieved 2024-12-12.
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9. Chaudhury, Nadia (2023-11-07). "The 12 Best New Restaurants in America". Eater. Archived from the original on 2023-11-08. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
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11. "The Restaurant List 2024". The New York Times. 2024-09-24. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-12-13.
12. "These Are the James Beard Awards Restaurant and Chef Semifinalists, 2024". Bon Appétit. 2024-01-24. Retrieved 2024-01-25.

• 1990s births
• American women restaurateurs
• People from Texas
• Barbecue chefs
• Living people