The Texas-style Decker is smoking its brisket "low and slow" like the gods intended.

If you like Meat Smith on Telok Ayer, you're going to love our hot new discovery just off Robertson Quay. Tucked away in a corridor behind Boomerang, Decker Barbecue is a collaboration between the lady behind Club Street Social, Min Chan, and baby-faced American food-nerd and pitmaster Elliott Decker, who picked up his smoking chops in Austin, Texas.

The space feels like a cross between a backyard food truck and a southern American revival tent. We're talking colorful string lights, picnic tables and folding chairs, trays lined with parchment paper and an open kitchen with a back-lit menu and a giant smoker in the back where Decker throws on tomorrow's brisket the evening before to slow-cook overnight.

The menu is small, focused and hella juicy. You have to get the beef brisket of course ($16/100g), but also delicious is the tell-everyone-you-know tender pulled pork ($9/100g), served un-sauced and dripping with fatty goodness. They also do spare ribs and turkey. The sides are equally all-American, including stuff like brisket beans ($9), mac & cheese ($9) and a party-in-your-mouth kale salad ($9 or $18 with meat).

Just when you think you couldn't possibly feel any more like a badass, carefree pick-up truck-driving bro: they've also got hipster-chic bottled beers like Brooklyn Lager and Red Hook (they do Brewerkz on tap, too), while The Strokes play on the speakers.

They're taking things slow for the moment, open just Tue-Sun 6-10pm, but they hope to be open for lunch as well in the next month or two. No Facebook page yet, but the following is already growing thanks in part to Robertson Quay expats who have stumbled upon it and can't believe their luck.

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