Evan LeRoy

Evan LeRoy trained as a chef in culinary school before turning to barbecue, and he grew up in Austin. He was the pitmaster at Freedmen's Bar before he and partner Sawyer Lewis launched the LeRoy and Lewis food truck in 2017. The truck served beef cheeks daily and saved brisket for weekends, an approach LeRoy calls "new school" barbecue. In 2024 LeRoy and Lewis moved into a brick-and-mortar restaurant in South Austin, which LeRoy calls "a whole animal barbecue restaurant" with its butchery done in-house.