Oak’d BBQ May Just Have the Best Desserts in Texas
Come for the meat, but stay for the key lime pie, two-layer chocolate caramel cake, and massive cookies.
February 12, 2021
The excellent key lime pie is just one of the many dessert options at Oak'd BBQ.
Photograph by Daniel Vaughn
Michael Lane’s culinary career doesn’t look like that of most pitmasters. Before he opened Oak’d Handcrafted BBQ in Dallas late last year, he graduated from the Culinary Institute of America and worked in the kitchens of well-respected chefs like Dean Fearing and Robert Del Grande. Then, he built a massive catering company, which he ran for two decades. He dabbled in barbecue at the time, but Lane admits he wasn’t particularly thoughtful about it. “When I was doing it for our catering company, I was doing it as a vehicle to make money. I wasn’t honed in on the craft,” he says. Now he’s all in on barbecue. At Oak’d, he aims to provide an experience he feels is lacking in Texas barbecue.