Snowsfields, London / Est. 4 July 2016

A little
London.
A lot of Texas.

The restaurant, with tables beneath a collection of Texas music posters
04 JUL2016The doors open
The dining room at Texas Joe’s on Snowsfields
Texas Joe’s, Snowsfields.

3,731days since
we opened.

Counting from

Independent since the Fourth of July, 2016.

Over ten years, Texas Joe’s has become part of the neighbourhood: Snowsfields, London Bridge, and the London lives of people who keep coming back. For many Americans, it’s somewhere to feel at home.

Much of the team has been here for years. Roles have changed, but Joe and Fliss have always been here, alongside many of the people who helped build the restaurant.

There’s continuity in the food, too: a familiar menu and Hill Country barbecue smoked over English oak.

The music is as much a part of the restaurant as the food. Joe’s soundtrack has grown with the place over the years. You hear it over the conversations, smell the barbecue, and on a busy night sit among tables of people eating and enjoying it. The posters on the walls are part of that same love of Texas music.

Meet Joe, the Texan in London
Original concert posters from Texas venues, including the Armadillo World Headquarters

A history you can sit beneath

Texas
on the walls.

Jim Franklin and the Armadillo Art Squad. Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and the Armadillo World Headquarters. These are posters Joe has collected over the years: a history of Texas music and the artists who put it on paper.

The collection continues next door in the Flying W Saloon.

Through to the Saloon
Joe and Fliss with Tootsie, the Queen of Texas BBQ
Joe and Fliss with Tootsie, the Queen of Texas BBQ.

The people behind the place

Meet the team.

The people who keep the smoker hot, the room humming and everyone looked after.

From the Texas Joe’s newspaperVol. I / 2016
Big Smoke Signal — original illustrated newspaper masthead

Barbecue has a history

Read all
about it.

Daniel Vaughn, J. C. Reid and Robb Walsh on the people, places and other meats that made Texas barbecue.

Inside the Big Smoke Signal