After appearances on Food Network’s Chopped and Guy’s Grocery Games, San Antonio chef-restauranteur Braunda Smith recently landed a spot on the another of the cable channel’s cooking competitions, BBQ Brawl, according to the San Antonio report.
Smith, the founder of Lucy Cooper’s Ice House, battled 11 other pitmasters at Star Hill Ranch in Austin for the show’s seventh season, the news outlet reports. On the show, three teams — each headed by a celebrity chef — go head-to-head against each other in a succession of live-fire cooking challenges.
Food Network fixture Bobby Flay personally selected Smith for his team even though her restaurant’s eclectic menu isn’t focused on barbecue, according to the San Antonio report. Indeed, ribs are the only such item that appears on the Lucy Cooper’s menu.
“It was long, arduous weeks of being away from home and the restaurant,” Smith also told the news outlet. “But man, was it worth it. It was bananas being in that live fire. I cook for a living every day. I’m under that stress and pressure. But it’s a totally different pressure being outdoors and being filmed. It’s a whole different ballgame. I loved it. I’ve got that crazy in me so, of course, I loved it. I thrive in crazy.’”
The first episode of BBQ Brawl’s latest season will air Monday, May 11, at 8 p.m.
While Smith will host a watch party at Lucy Cooper’s, 16080 San Pedro Ave., she told the San Antonio Report she can’t reveal who was crowned “Master of the Cue.”
“You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll gasp, I promise. It’s good TV,” she said. “I know I made San Antonio proud.”
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