Sonny Bryan's Smokehouse

Since 1958, the Original Sonny Bryan’s Smokehouse has proudly served patrons on Inwood Road. Located across from UT Southwestern Medical Center, just east of 35 North, the Inwood restaurant features vintage school desks and photos of famous folks who’ve enjoyed our barbecue through the years!

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144
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  • Phone

    (214) 357-7120

  • Website

    sonnybryans.com

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  • Type

    BBQ Joint

Address

2202 Inwood Rd (at Redfield St.) Dallas , TX 75235 United States

Reservations No
Credit Cards Yes (incl. Discover & Visa)
Outdoor Seating Yes
Menus Brunch, Lunch, Dinner
Drinks Beer

Comments / 49


Keywords:

barbecue brisket ribs onion rings school desks sandwiches frito pie great value casual authentic good for a quick meal family-friendly sausage beer lunch dinner parking cheddar cheese
Gaye Drake

Ribs , brisket , sliced ans choppec, onion rings , potato salad . Also, there is table seating in an aggitional building. Walk out east side of original building and open door into new area.

Dallas Observer

The old favorites--ribs, brisket and onion rings--still hit the spot, especially when doused with Sonny's original, thick sauce and washed down with fresh, cold iced tea in a foam Dr Pepper cup. Read more

Shayla Williams

Open 24/7!! The seating is old school desk and not many of them. Food was good and fresh. With it being 24 hours I was skeptical about freshness by the food was good. I had the puled pork and a rib .

Spencer Sorrell

Good golly that was lip smacking finger licking good. Barbecue and a cold beer on a hot day; sure hard to beat that. Get the beans, onion rings and brisket .

Ross Vincent

Use to be a time when you had to get there early, to get a meal. Now, they serve it all day. And dont let the atmosphere scare you.

Kevin McCarthy

It's great that they're open 24 hours now barbecue anytime of the day you want it

Cynthia de Lorenzi

If you are in Dallas, TX and LOVE barbecue (and you should) you MUST go Sonny Bryan's! It's one of my favorites!

Marc Marx

Cheddar jalapeño sausage sandwich was delicious

David Heck

Brisket , onion rings and sauce were wonderful. Dallas BBQ tradition!

Michael Popiel

Brisket is fantastic, just arrived in town and told to come here. No complaints.

Jon Yager

Brisket . Some of the best I've had.

Bruno Azevedo

school desks , yeah! During summer outside seating is not good....stay inside! Needless to say, food is great!

Kim C

Thursday's special: Frito pie and drink.

Benjamin Avant

The food was disgusting. The staff ran around unnecessarily hectically. The indoor seating area is tiny with only small individual school desks for seating. The adjacent building has tables but no A/C

J. C. Smith

Bring your own towel to mop the sauce off your face and hands. Eat there. The discomfort is fun and the customers are great--both tourists and locals.

tolu

The best part of my meal were the fries and the biscuit .

tinhaMar cabanelas

3/4 lb combo for 2: excelent choice

Jaka Kragelj

The ribs are amazing. Brisket is good.

Eric Brown, MAOM

Large rib dinner was amazing

Southern Living

Made our South's Best List! Try the brisket , sausage , and pork ribs . Read more

CBS Local

Grab some smoked meat before they run out and sit in the school desks just to say you did. - CBS DFW Read more

Desiree Tran

Food smells amazing! Unique and fun seating area :) i cant wait for my chopped beef sandwich !

James Welsh

Best brisket at the ORIGINAL Sonny Bryan's!

Scott Connor

Best onion rings in Texas...maybe even the entire USA!

Missy Richards

Soooo good!

Eric Reibsane

Yumm - love some BBQ

Eric McCutchan

Biggest onion rings , yes. Best, no, not by a long shot. They're dry and surprisingly bland.

Al Calderone

Brisket & ribs

Denise Jones

best BBQ in Dallas!

Chelsea

Frito Pie is some of the best.

Stan Garfield

Get the pulled pork .

Vonia

Mediocre, unmoist brisket , pulled pork pretty good, ribs rather tender & moist.

Ricky Gustafson

Brisket and pork

Justin McConnell

Since when do the children run the daycare ?! Nothing but absolutely horrible service for the 2nd time in a row. Don't waste your time ordering online, they don't check it.

Chad Risby

Try the three meat combo..

Jeremy W

Small joint, good food!

Toby Smith

Longer hours 10a - 8p Mon- Sat, 10a-3p Sun, they close if food runs out!

Mistey Moore

Frito pie is delish !!

Kelly B

Uses Styrofoam, food not very good and could not print a reciept.

Robyn Andrist

The ribs are amazing

Ouchy Dathurts

Try the ribs instead of the brisket .

Chris Beard

Brisket . Onion rings . Oh man.

jancin

Pulled chicken is good. Onion rings so-so.

Mario Olivarri

This is the original sonny bryan's.

Bryan

Chopped brisket FTW

Jeremy Murphy

open Sunday now!

Dan Pham

Decent BBQ , the ribs are pretty solid. The onion rings are huge, but so bland & the other sides are just so so. There are far better BBQ joints in Dallas than Sonny Bryan's

Luis Lopez

Don't eat here... BBQ is horrible and atmosphere sucks..

Ronald

Try the Chopped Steak Sandwich - Uno de los mejores sandwich EVER!

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