Big Al's Smokehouse BBQ
In the late 60s, as a meat salesman for Farmer’s Meat Market in downtown Dallas, Al Plaskoff sold briskets, hams and other meats to just about every barbecue restaurant in town. “Travis Dickey, Red Bryan, Bob White – you name it. I sold to all of them,” Plaskoff recalls. Plaskoff spent time with these original Dallas Pitmasters, getting to know them and their craft. When Al was offered the opportunity to buy his own restaurant from Loren Brown in 1973, he had the encouragement and support of his old customers – who both shared their secrets to great barbecue and continued to buy their meat from him for the next decade even after Big Al’s Smokehouse Barbecue opened its doors.