{"id":43,"date":"2016-07-26T15:12:30","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T20:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingranch.rhdproofs.com\/?p=43"},"modified":"2024-12-03T14:05:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T20:05:35","slug":"fourth-generation-pitmaster-brings-smoke-to-upscale-downtown-barbecue-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/king-ranch.com\/fourth-generation-pitmaster-brings-smoke-to-upscale-downtown-barbecue-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth generation pitmaster brings smoke to upscale downtown barbecue spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Culture Map\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\nIf the news that five time James Beard Award finalist Hugo Ortega is opening a restaurant at downtown&#8217;s 30-story Marriott Marquis highlighted\u00a0last week&#8217;s announcement\u00a0about the new restaurants coming to downtown&#8217;s Avenida Houston, then the claim for the most mysterious newcomer concerned Bud&#8217;s Pitmaster BBQ.<\/p>\n<p>Although the restaurant only merited a brief mention in the press release, the idea of adding barbecue to the George R. Brown Convention Center certainly intrigues. But who is this mysterious &#8220;Bud?&#8221; What is his history with barbecue? What will he serve? Those answers have begun to emerge.<\/p>\n<p>Theldon &#8220;Bud&#8221; Branch, III traces his heritage to south Texas where his grandfather T.R. Branch became the first African American to receive a package store liquor license in that part of the the state. Branch&#8217;s father, known as &#8220;Little Bud&#8221; learned barbecue techniques during his time working at the legendary King Ranch. 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