Rudy's Country Store and Bar-B-Q

Mack "Doc" Holiday started this outfit in 1989, and it's grown into a small chain that knows what it does: oak-fired barbecue, cooked the long way. This Las Cruces outpost on North Telshor Boulevard keeps the same steady hand — no shortcuts, no gimmicks, just meat and smoke and time.

Open seven days a week from morning to night, it's the kind of place that doesn't need to shout. Walk in, order, eat. That's the whole thing.