Texas help!

No mention of barbecue, but there's this wine and food festival going on: Dallas Wine and Food 2005. I never spent much time in Dallas proper, mostly in the surrounds.

Up in Clear Lake (looks about 30 min northeast of Dallas proper) there's a crawdad festival on 4/2.

Down in Huntsville (about an hour down I-45 toward Houston) I had some excellent steaks at the Country Inn III Steakhouse. At the time I was there, the town had one college and 5 or 6 prisons. The inmates raised beef cattle and did an exceptional job. There were no Country Inn I and II to be found.

The Amon Carter museum has a most excellent museum of cowboy and western art if your into that sort of cultural activity - it's on the road over to Fort Worth.

Have a wonderful trip - hope you find some good eatin'!

Thanks Jaq, we're looking for some good steaks so that's a good one to bear in mind. We're visiting Vic's sister and her husband over there so they've got a few favourites, of course we'll report back.

also we have to go to the dallas world aquarium, it looks incredible.

I think Sonny Bryans seems to be the barbecue place to go.