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Authentic Central Texas style pit-smoked BBQ for catering, events, fairs/festivals, farmers' markets

24/07/2025

Thank you to Christine, Sarah, and the rest of the crew at for having us out recently to serve up lunch to your great group at the South San Francisco campus! It was our pleasure, and we hope to see you all again! For the rest of you out there shopping for a BBQ caterer, just know that no matter whether your venue is outside or inside, you’re wanting lunch or dinner, and you have a significant number of vegetarians or you’re 100% brisket-loving carnivores, we’e got you all covered with smoked goodness!

28/06/2025

Beef Brisket Tallow is coming! A nice amber one like the one shown here that you can use as a replacement for vegetable/seed oils, lard, or shortening in your kitchen creations. And a really special “clear” one for biscuits and when making your own soaps. No, that one won’t make you smell like a cooked brisket after your nightly facial routine. Although depending on how your partner rolls, that might not be a bad thing. Hmm. Watch for them coming to the L&S online store soon! And note the tag following that foreshadows another product or two in our future.

27/06/2025

Attention all upcoming Burning Man travelers! It might still be almost two months until you make the trek to Black Rock City, but it’s never too early to be thinking about what you’re going to eat when you get there. Last year, one of the festival organizers hit us up for some of our vac-sealed smoked brisket and rib packs for the week, and she said they turned out to be a rousing success! Imagine being able to take iced-down smoked meat packs to your mecca and be able to fire up your propane stove, plop a sealed pack or two of our smoky goodness into a pan of hot water for about 15 minutes, and then serve up the best sliced brisket and ribs in all of Elysium. You’ll be the envy of every nymph and flying cyclist for miles. Check out our online store or give us a call and we’ll tell you what to do! Otherwise, you might end up smack-dab in the middle of the desert trading away your last possession of value for a bag of potato chips. Peace.

18/03/2025

May you also be blessed with clients who present a bouquet of flowers to your wife at the completion of a catering event.

06/03/2025

Refrigerator magnets have landed! And available with a la carte orders while supplies last! (Or until we order more!) 😉 (A la carte orders link in bio)

04/03/2025

Ahh, on this Taco Tuesday, let’s celebrate the joy of freshly smoked brisket right after it comes off the smoker! Well, kinda. This delicious smoked lean section was actually smoked 6 months ago, then vacuum-sealed and stored in an air-tight pack in the freezer until a few days ago, slow-defrosted for a day in the refrigerator, placed in a pot of hot water for about 20 minutes, and sliced to-order like you see here. And yes, it tastes like it just came off the smoker! Maybe better! Because you want it when you want it. And you never know when the gang is going to show up wanting brisket tacos on . Now THAT’S beautiful! Hit us up at the Love and Smoke online store! (Link in bio)

13/01/2025

Happy National Smoked Meat Day! Was thinking of what to post for such a special day, and I thought I’d share a story about smoked beef ribs. We don’t currently have them on our catering or a la carte menus - no particular reason up til now other than we just haven’t decided to do so yet. But after having a good one in Texas recently (yes, one - you’ll understand why in just a minute), that sabbatical might last a little longer. After being told by many that Louie Mueller’s in Taylor was the place to go for the best smoked beef ribs around, I gave it a shot. And yes, IT was delicious with a gorgeously rich flavor, but just look at that monster. Truth be told, I’m not embarrassed to say I got four meals out of that thing. Look at the second picture showing the fully finished bone next to an equally cleaned pork baby-back rib, and you understand why the usual reply from servers at Mueller’s when a couple steps up and asks for two of them is “Uh, you might want to rethink that choice.” Funny thing is they’re apparently not a very profitable item for restaurants, even though they cost the diner an arm and a leg. When I told a pitmaster friend of mine whose opinion I value greatly about my choice, he told me “Hard to believe beef ribs are a losing proposition for restaurants. They are just to be sexy and get people in the door. Pay about $50-65 per 3 rib rack raw. Then trim, season, babysit for 10 hrs, spritz, then slice. Lose money.” LOL Incredible. Think about that the next time you go to your favorite BBQ haunt and order one of these while you grit your teeth at what you just paid for it. It’s an experience worth having for a smoked meat lover. Just be ready with a doggy bag.

20/12/2024

Respect.

28/11/2024

This week seems to be all about turkeys. But all I can think about is chickens. Why is that? Because it just so happens that November in Northern California is peak ripening time for Pink Lady apples, just the right blend of sweet and tart that makes them the favorite for our Smoked Chicken Curry Salad. If you hurry, you just might still be able to get some PL’s at Hale’s Apple Farm in Sebastopol, our favorite local farm for fresh apples of all varieties. And when you’re finished with all that turkey, we’ve got plenty of Smoked Chicken Curry Salad waiting for you! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

07/10/2024

A big thank you to the Trueb and Cresci families for having us out to San Gregorio to serve up Central Texas-style smoked barbecue! Beautiful wedding, great families and friends, gorgeous setting!

11/08/2024

Happy Sausage Sunday BBQ lovers! We’re excited because we’ve got an abundance of our one-pound smoked beef pork sausages and half-pound smoked pork Cajun andouille sausages back in a la carte stock, ready for your late-summer satisfaction! Because they’re already smoke-cooked and vacuum-sealed, you can refrigerate or even freeze them til you’re ready to eat ‘em. And to celebrate, from now until the end of Labor Day weekend, we’re including a free Love and Smoke coffee mug with each a la carte purchase! So head on over to the Love and Smoke online store (link in bio) to order for pickup in Oakland. If you want to check when we might be making drop-offs on the peninsula, in SF, or elsewhere, give us a call at (650) 684-7335!

28/01/2024

Well, blessed be the heavens, or at least the people who name these things, because today is the first day of National Meat Week, otherwise known as It’s Just as Good an Excuse as Any to Barbecue Week. So whether you’re cooking it yourself, or it’s being smoked by us or any of our brothers and sisters out there serving up carnivore cuisine out of every type of meat mecca from BBQ joints to French cafes to Szechuan sizzle houses, enjoy this week of celebration for The Pinnacle of Protein. You can take a break from cooking on February 5th - that’s Shower with a Friend Day!

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