DeLuxe

For a few years when I lived in Oakland’s Temescal neighborhood, I got treated to some of the best BBQ I’ve ever had. Westbrook’s BBQ was a mobile BBQ grill made ingeniously out of an old Winnebago. Odell, the owner, had chopped off the back of the Winnebago and welded a giant barrel style grill into the back. A couple times a week, sometimes just a couple times a month, they’d pull the truck over at the intersection of Telegraph and 51st in North Oakland and open for business. We’d get the brisket and links combo with greens, mac ‘n’ cheese, and cole slaw. One meal there was big enough for two. I never see them there anymore, so perhaps they’ve moved on. Odell, the owner, had always told me he was open more often out at Durant Square in East Oakland. I don’t get out that way much but maybe they’re still out there.