Brisket Sandwich

A former food truck turned full restaurant off Stassney Lane, serving what it calls inventive barbecue. Its chopped brisket sandwich gets a beet barbecue sauce, pickles and pickled onion. Its L&L Burger is a smoked-then-seared half-pound brisket patty with American cheese.

An East Cesar Chavez barbecue joint with a whole board of sandwiches on potato buns. Get the sliced brisket with pickles and onions, or the chopped brisket in the house Bobby sauce. If you're hungry, El Sancho Loco piles sausage, pulled pork and chopped brisket under pickled red onions.

The East 11th Street joint whose line made Austin brisket famous. The brisket sandwich is the simple way in, with slaw, pickles and onions if you want them. On a budget, the chopped beef sandwich costs less than half as much.