The New Location of Vaqueros Texas Bar-B-Q Improves the Popular North Texas Joint

Glance into the pit room at the new Vaqueros Texas Bar-B-Q, in Allen, and you might think you’re looking at an art installation. From the sidewalk of the Watters Creek development, a pair of custom-painted, thousand-gallon smokers are visible behind the storefront windows. Backline Fabrication, in Austin, built the smokers and finished them with a striking Aztec-inspired paint job based on images owner and pitmaster Arnulfo “Trey” Sánchez had supplied. “I wanted to include Huehueteotl, the Aztec god of fire,” Sánchez told me. You’ll find him represented in backlit steel cutouts at the feet of the smokers. What you won’t find is grease and ash on the floor or smoke in the air.“Multiple people said they didn’t want to bring their crew in here and…

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