James Beard Foundation "Best Chef-Texas" Finalist 2024 Archives - Gil's Thrilling (And Filling) Blog https://www.nmgastronome.com/?cat=4360 Follow the Culinary Ruminations of New Mexico's Sesquipedalian Sybarite. 1,434 Restaurant Reviews, More Than 14,400 Visitor Comments...And Counting! Sun, 24 Nov 2024 16:55:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 5142377 Burnt Bean – Seguin, Texas https://www.nmgastronome.com/?p=68027&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=burnt-bean-seguin-texas https://www.nmgastronome.com/?p=68027#respond Sun, 15 Sep 2024 06:01:29 +0000 https://www.nmgastronome.com/?p=68027 Legend has it that shortly after the horrendous mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas,  Burnt Bean pitmaster and co-owner Ernest Servantes was asked to serve barbecue to law enforcement officials in Uvalde.  According to sources, Servantes, himself an Uvalde native, refused to serve anything to the milksops whose cowardly inaction resulted in the fatal shooting of 19 students and 2 teachers, and the injuring of 17 others.  Servantes wasn’t around when my new friend and dining companion Melinda Martinez and I finally completed our time in the purgatory of a queue that snaked to the end of the block.  We asked one of the restaurant’s servers, but he was unable to either confirm or refute the story.  At any regard, it’s…

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