{"id":11971,"date":"2026-09-15T19:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T19:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/11971\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T19:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T19:24:09","slug":"southern-living-names-kafi-bbq-in-irving-as-one-of-the-best-newcomers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/11971\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Living names Kafi BBQ in Irving as one of the best newcomers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The magazine found great barbecue in six southern states. Restaurants in Texas and Georgia dominated the list, accounting for half of its 16 businesses. As in: If you&#8217;re hungry for barbecue, meet us in Texas or Georgia, OK?<\/p>\n<p>Much of Kafi&#8217;s menu is focused around its glistening Wagyu beef. Customers can order brisket, beef ribs, oxtail, a New York strip, pomegranate-glazed burnt ends and more. It&#8217;ll cost you: Kafi&#8217;s Wagyu brisket is priced at $25 per half pound, according to the website, or $50 a pound. Compare that with Cattleack Barbecue, another Dallas-Fort Worth restaurant that sells Wagyu: Cattleack&#8217;s brisket is $39.99 a pound.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond Kafi&#8217;s brisket, SL writer Robert F. Moss enjoyed the Iraqi-spiced sausage and french fries cooked in Wagyu beef tallow. Kafi&#8217;s most ordered side is its smoked gouda mac and cheese, according to Instagram. The cardamom banana pudding is another winner.<\/p>\n<p>Find Southern Living&#8217;s list of new barbecue joints here. I&#8217;m putting Two Goose Market and Barbecue in Austin at the top of my list for my next Texas roadtrip because it serves\u00a0breakfast tacos and lattes starting at 7 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Kafi BBQ is at 8140 N. MacArthur Blvd., Irving. Open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The magazine found great barbecue in six southern states. Restaurants in Texas and Georgia dominated the list, accounting for half of its 16 businesses. As in: If you&#8217;re hungry for barbecue, meet us in Texas or Georgia, OK? Much of Kafi&#8217;s menu is focused around its glistening Wagyu beef. Customers can order brisket, beef ribs,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[176,220,1247,12692,958],"class_list":["post-11971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-restaurants","tag-tp-barbecue","tag-tp-irving","tag-tp-restaurants"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/vive.im\/@dc\/117276695870739390","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}