Chuck Charnichart
Chuck Charnichart | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1997 or 1998 (age 27–28)[1] Brownsville, Texas |
| Culinary career | |
| Cooking style | Barbecue |
Current restaurant | |
Chuck Charnichart is an American restaurateur and pitmaster.
Early life and education
[edit | edit source]Charnichart's parents, Bethoven and Francisca Charnichart, emigrated from San Luis Potosí, Mexico, to Brownsville, Texas in 1997.[1] Her father was a restaurant cook on South Padre Island.[1][2] Charnichart was their first child born in the US.[2][3] She has three siblings.[2] The family lived in a trailer park.[2] She worked at a Taco Bell.[2]
Charnichart attended the University of Texas at Austin, where she studied marketing.[4][2] She first tasted Central Texas-style smoked brisket while in Austin.[5][6]
Career
[edit | edit source]While in college Charnichart worked front of house at Franklin Barbecue.[1] While studying abroad in Norway she worked in an Oslo smokeless barbecue restaurant.[2] When she returned from Norway, she worked at Fort Worth's Goldee's Barbecue, which in 2021 was named the state's best barbecue restaurant by Texas Monthly; owner and pitmaster Jonny White became a mentor.[1][2][5] When White temporarily closed Goldee's while on vacation, he offered her the opportunity to use the space for a concept of her own, and she created a pop-up version of her vision for Barbs B Q.[2]
Charnichart is the pitmaster of Barbs B Q in Lockhart, Texas, which she opened with partners in 2023.[4][1][5]
Recognition
[edit | edit source]In 2022, Texas Monthly's taco editor Jose Ralat wrote that Barbs B Q's version of green spaghetti, which Charnichart created based on her mother's recipe, "might be the single best dish I ate all year".[7][8] The restaurant was named one of the twelve best new restaurants in the U.S. by Eater in 2023.[9] In 2023 Garden & Gun called her "arguably the top brisket cook working in Texas today".[2]
In 2024 Bon Appetit named Charnichart their 2024 "Chef of the Moment", saying she was "reshaping barbecue".[1] In 2024, Barbs B Q was named one of the best new restaurants of 2024 by Bon Appétit[10] one of the best restaurants in the country by The New York Times,[11] and was a semifinalist in the Best New Restaurant category of the James Beard Foundation Awards.[12]
See also
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