Spencerport · Rochester, New York · Est. 2007
Low & Slow Since 2007
Fourteen hours over post oak. Bark like midnight, a smoke ring you can see from the door, and sides made from scratch every morning. Real Texas barbecue, two miles off the Erie Canal.
The Pit
You can't rush
a brisket
Every morning starts the night before. Whole packer briskets get trimmed by hand, hit with nothing but coarse black pepper and salt, and set over a post-oak fire that somebody has to stay up and feed.
Fourteen hours later they come off wrapped, rested, and sliced to order. Never held, never reheated. When it's gone, it's gone. That's how Texas does it, and that's how we've done it in Spencerport since 2007.
The Legends
Order these first
Three plates people drive across Monroe County for. Everything else on the menu is worth your time too, but start here.
$16
Signature Sandwich
The Smoke Stack
Sliced brisket, coleslaw and pulled pork stacked between two slices of sharp cheddar. Bring both hands.
$17.50
The One We're Known For
Famous Outlaw Potato
A full pound of potato under butter, cheese, sour cream, bacon and your choice of meat. Sixteen years and still undefeated.
$36
Full Rack
Baby Back Ribs
Smoked and seasoned until they pull clean off the bone but still hold a bite. Half racks available if you're feeding one.
The Menu
Pick your lane
Catering
Twelve people or twelve hundred
Graduations, weddings, company picnics, firehouse fundraisers. We bring the pit, the pans and the people, and we've never once run a table short.
Word of Mouth
What the regulars say
200+ reviews · Spencerport, NY
“Outstanding food and delivery. I will take them any day over some of the more well-known local BBQ places.”
“The price, quality and quantity was spot on. That cornbread alone is worth the drive.”
“Catered our whole event. Staff were friendly, knew every question we had about allergies, and everything showed up hot.”
Find Us
Two doors, one pit
Dine-In · Take-Out
Texas Bar-B-Q Joint
122 S Union St
Spencerport, NY 14559
(585) 352-4227
- Mon – Thu
- 11:00 AM – 8:00 PM
- Friday
- 11:00 AM – 9:00 PM
- Saturday
- 12:00 PM – 9:00 PM
- Sunday
- 1:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Drive-Thru · Greece
Outlaw Potato Shack
3160 W Ridge Rd
Rochester, NY 14626
(585) 227-6474
- Mon – Thu
- 11:00 AM – 8:00 PM
- Friday
- 11:00 AM – 9:00 PM
- Saturday
- 12:00 PM – 9:00 PM
- Sunday
- Closed
The Smoke Signal
Know when the good stuff drops
Brisket-day alerts, holiday pre-orders, and the occasional coupon. One email a week, tops.
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Smoked Fresh Daily
The Menu
Everything below comes off our own pit. Meats are sliced to order, sides are made from scratch every morning, and when a meat sells out for the day, that's the day.
Off the Pit
Meat Platters
Every platter comes with two sides and a piece of our cornbread. Choose from beef brisket, pulled pork, BBQ chicken, smoked sausage or ribs.
Your favorite meat, two sides and a piece of cornbread.
Two meats, two sides, cornbread. The one most people land on.
Three meats, two sides, cornbread. Bring a friend or don't.
Meat, side and cornbread, plated the way we'd eat it ourselves.
Low and Slow
Baby Back Ribs
Smoked and seasoned until they pull clean but still hold a bite.
The lunch move.
A full rack of perfectly smoked and seasoned baby back ribs.
The One We're Known For
Texas-Size Potatoes
A full pound of potato, loaded until the foil complains. If you've only got one meal here, make it an Outlaw.
One-pound potato filled with butter, cheese, sour cream and bacon, topped with your choice of meat.
The Outlaw with double everything. Bring reinforcements.
The Famous Outlaw, loaded and combined with our mac and cheese.
Butter, cheese, sour cream and bacon. No meat, no complaints.
Texas-size potato with butter only.
Handhelds
Sandwiches
Add any side for $6.
Sliced brisket, coleslaw and pulled pork between two slices of sharp cheddar.
Fridays around here are still Fridays.
Double Portions
sMash & Mac Bowls
Built for the days you skipped lunch.
A double serving of mashed potatoes with your choice of toppings, finished with one of our signature meats.
A double portion of our mac and cheese, topped with the meat of your choice.
A double bed of mashed potatoes topped with corn, country-fried and finished with meat.
From the Fryer & the Pit
Wings & Fish Fry
Wings are smoked first, then finished to order.
For the Table
Tenders & Texas Pizza Logs
Three chicken tenders, one side and cornbread.
Five chicken tenders, one side and cornbread.
Greens
Salads
A Texas-size garden salad, made the way you want it, topped with smoked meat.
Made From Scratch
Sides & Cornbread
All sides $6 unless noted. Four-side deal: $20.
Save Room
Sweets
Feed Everybody
Family Deals
Three pounds of meat, four large sides and a dozen cornbread. The whole table, handled.
Any four sides. Good for a potluck, better for a Sunday.
Feeding more than eight?
Our catering kitchen handles graduations, weddings, company picnics and firehouse fundraisers across the Rochester area.
To Wash It Down
Drinks
Menu and pricing subject to change. Please tell us about allergies when you order and we'll walk you through what's safe.
Catering Across the Rochester Area
We bring the whole pit
Graduation parties in Spencerport. Weddings in Brockport. Company picnics, firehouse fundraisers, and the kind of Sunday where forty people show up. Twelve guests or twelve hundred, we've never run a table short.
How It Works
Three steps, no surprises
Tell us the details
Head count, date, address, and whether you want it dropped off or served. Two minutes on the form below is usually all it takes.
We send a real quote
A written quote inside one business day with everything itemized. No per-head guessing games, no fees that appear later.
We show up hot
Meats come off the pit the morning of, travel in warmers, and land on your table ready to eat. Setup, serving and cleanup available.
The Packages
Pick a spread
Every package includes disposable plates, utensils, napkins and serving equipment. Twenty-guest minimum.
The Tailgate
Drop-off, ready to serve
- One smoked meat, your choice
- Two scratch-made sides
- Cornbread and house BBQ sauce
- Delivered hot in warming trays
The Round-Up
Our graduation-party standard
- Two smoked meats, your choice
- Three scratch-made sides
- Cornbread, pickles and onion
- Dessert tray
- Setup and warming equipment included
The Whole Hog
Full-service, staffed
- Three smoked meats, your choice
- Four scratch-made sides
- Cornbread, dessert and all the fixings
- Our team on site to serve
- Setup, service and cleanup handled
Something else in mind?
Boxed lunches for the job site, a taco bar, breakfast for a 6 a.m. crew, or a whole hog for the backyard. Tell us what you're picturing and we'll build it.
Why People Rebook
Nobody has ever left our table hungry
Request a Quote
Tell us about your event
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Spencerport, New York
Our Story
How a Texas pit ended up two miles off the Erie Canal, and why we still do it the slow way.
Chapter One
A Texas pit in western New York
Spencerport wasn't exactly barbecue country. Rochester had garbage plates and white hots and about a hundred years of opinions about both. What it didn't have was somebody willing to stay up all night feeding a wood fire.
That changed in 2007. The doors opened on South Union Street with a pit out back, a family running the counter, and a stubborn idea that if you smoked brisket the way Texas smokes brisket, people around here would drive for it.
They did. They still do.
What We Believe
“Barbecue isn't a recipe. It's a decision you make at four in the morning, every morning, whether anybody's watching or not.”
Chapter Two
New hands on the same pit
Every good place eventually has to answer a hard question: what happens next. Ours got answered by people who'd been eating here for years and couldn't stand the thought of Spencerport losing it.
So the pit stayed. The recipes stayed. The cornbread that people order by the dozen stayed exactly as it was. What's new is the room, the online ordering, the catering operation, and a plan to make sure this place is still smoking twenty years from now.
If you've been coming here since 2007, nothing you love is going anywhere. If you've never been, you picked a good year to start.
The Method
Rules we don't bend
Post oak, never gas
One wood, split and stacked. Gas assists are faster and every pitmaster worth listening to can taste the difference.
Nothing to hide behind
Coarse black pepper, kosher salt, and time. If the meat needs a sauce to be worth eating, we didn't do our job.
Never held, never reheated
Your brisket gets cut when you order it. That's also why a meat sells out some days, and why we won't fake it.
Come Hungry
122 South Union Street
The pit's already going. Pull in, order at the counter, and find a table.
Two Doors, One Pit
Find Us
Sit down in Spencerport or roll through the drive-thru in Greece. Same smoke, two very different moods.
Dine-In · Take-Out · The Original
Texas Bar-B-Q Joint
122 S Union St
Spencerport, NY 14559
(585) 352-4227
- Monday – Thursday
- 11:00 AM – 8:00 PM
- Friday
- 11:00 AM – 9:00 PM
- Saturday
- 12:00 PM – 9:00 PM
- Sunday
- 1:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Drive-Thru · Greece
Outlaw Potato Shack
3160 W Ridge Rd
Rochester, NY 14626
(585) 227-6474
- Monday – Thursday
- 11:00 AM – 8:00 PM
- Friday
- 11:00 AM – 9:00 PM
- Saturday
- 12:00 PM – 9:00 PM
- Sunday
- Closed
Good to Know
Before you head over
We cook what we can smoke
Meats occasionally sell out before close, especially on weekends. Ordering ahead is the surest way to get exactly what you came for.
Twenty or more? Call us
Big take-out orders go smoother with a day's notice. Anything over about twenty people is a catering conversation.
Just ask at the counter
Our staff know the menu inside out and will walk you through what's safe. Tell us when you order and we'll handle it.