Zachary S.
Yelp
Through my BBQ awakening and journey to try all the best spots in Texas, I was most intrigued by the breakfast barbecue concept of Briscuits. I've always had a soft spot for barbecue sandwiches, and to see Briscuits hold that proudly as their purpose in the saturated craft BBQ market made them remain high on my bucket list.
Now, I gate-kept myself from going to Briscuits until I could get up in the morning. If they pride themselves on meat served in a biscuit, it's not a lunch restaurant. It is a tried-and-true breakfast and brunch restaurant. Agreeing to pick a friend up from the airport was enough to motivate me to go to Radio and order some Briscuits.
I got to Radio and scored a parking spot like a champion, scanned the QR code outside Briscuits, and easily placed an order through my phone. I'm so used to the extensive, never-ending, hour-long planning ahead of many of the BBQ joints I've been to, so scanning a QR code and getting my food 20 minutes after I ordered felt surreal. Briscuits opens early at 8 am, and by 10:40 when I placed my order, a majority of their food was still available. My order was ready 15 minutes later.
The haul?
The main choice in the Briscuits experience was to choose between a biscuit with egg and cheese or a biscuit with jelly. I could have gone for both, and maybe I would have if I had a little more courage in my heart, but I chose the brisket, egg, and cheese, which seemed to me the titular item that represented the ethos and essence of what Briscuits is trying to do as a concept.
It was a heater. Breakfast sandwiches seem to peak with sausage, egg, and cheese, but if you replace the sausage with fine brisket and the bun with a mouthwatering, buttery biscuit, you learn society has reached a new level in the hierarchy of breakfast sammys. The thing looks like it's going to bust out of the damn wrapper, and the huge chunk of scrambled eggs really brings it together. The wrapper tries its best to keep the sandwich composed because without its structure, you start getting bites of just egg and have half of the brisket still to eat without the biscuit. Blessed.
In addition, I ordered a link of their Blueberry Gouda sausage. I've talked many times about how a specialty link is an essential addition to a modern barbecue restaurant, so for a breakfast BBQ restaurant to infuse blueberry in the sausage is an A+ in conception. As for the link itself, it's very unique. The berry profile complements the meat very well. I had a few bites with their provided sauce, but I fear the blueberries and the BBQ sauce clash. It's great on its own. No need for sauce.
The last thing I ordered was a side of their hash browns. They were a lot more peppery than a typical hash brown patty, but I really liked the kick, and it was super crispy on the outside.
I think Briscuits and Radio really benefit from each other's existence on a shared ground because I got a great latte to mesh with my breakfast, which really tied the experience together in a nice bow and puts Briscuits in a really excellent space. I've been to Radio many times but never when Briscuits was open, so it was nice to hit both in one go.
As a whole, Briscuits is the best way to eat BBQ before 11 am. I find myself, as I write this review in the evening, still yearning for another breakfast sammy because they reinvented what makes a morning magical.
To wrap it up, I showed my friend a picture of the brisket, egg, and cheese I got, and he made me go back to Radio so he could get one himself. That's how good Briscuits is.