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From Food Truck to Michelin Star: Evan LeRoy of Leroy & Lewis
Charlie and Derry sit down with Evan LeRoy of Leroy & Lewis BBQ in South Austin — and the story is a masterclass in grinding it out. Evan walks us through the whole arc: cooking for college roommates, culinary school, baking bread and making sushi in New York, becoming pitmaster at Hill Country Barbecue, then back to Austin and Freedman's (where he helped build a cook team that reads like a who's-who of Texas 'cue today). In 2017 he and his partners — wife Lindsay and brothers Nathan and Sawyer Lewis — opened a food truck in a lot that didn't even have a coffee shop yet.
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