A San Antonio-area barbecue restaurant has earned a slot on a newly-released best BBQ list. The list, Top BBQ Joints in the South , is from Southern Living magazine, a magazine fond of lists, and features 17 restaurants in Texas overall, including Seguin's Burnt Bean Co.
Despite taking home the coveted No. 1 spot in Texas Monthly 's 2025 list of the 50 Best Barbecue Joints in Texas , Burnt Bean was in the middle of the pack at No. 31. San Antonio's Reese Bros. Barbecue and 2M Smokehouse , which were also in the top 50, did not make the Southern Living cut.
The list was compiled and ranked by Southern Living ’s Contributing Barbecue Editor, Robert F. Moss, who is based in Charleston, South Carolina. It's probably completely unrelated but the No. 1 "joint" on the list is C