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No one thought, when brisket king Aaron Franklin and Uchi’s Tyson Cole decided to collaborate on, whoa, an Asian-inflected smokehouse and barbecue joint, that it would be anything other than astonishingly good. That was in 2018, and that’s still how it is now. Bonus: the big, tree-shaded, dog-friendly porch.
This article appears in First Plates 2021 (Supplement) and First Plates 2021.
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