America's Best BBQ Cities (and bbq joints)

U.S. News and World Report. ^ | 2/29/12 | Emily Bratcher

[DemforBush]

If you're like us, you can't wait for Memorial Day, the unofficial start of barbeque season. There's nothing quite like spending the evening with a cold beer and a plate piled high with chilled coleslaw, thick-cut French fries, and succulent barbeque...

[GopherIt]

Stunned to find such good BBQ in MA, next door to Hampton Inn in Auburn, off the pike.

http://www.bucksroadside-bbq.com/index.php

[Coldwater Creek]

I don't know what happened to Love's, but my mother lived in the L.A. area, and she LOVED Love's. She was from Texas and liked Beef QUE. Didn't care for our Memphis BarBeQue.

[Coldwater Creek]

Have you ever b een to Chris and Pitt’s?

I spen 26 years in the L.A. area, you will never find Que like there like you do in the n South

[Coldwater Creek]

But then, you are a Memphian. Sucked on a rib bone instead of a pacifier.

[NCC-1701]

"...Memphis is the rib capital of the world...."

Memphis is the rib capital of the world UNIVERSE.

[Dead Corpse]

Austin, TX comes in 5th? :-|

Texas redefined what I'd grown up thinking was "good" barbeque. I'd go back to Texas JUST for the BBQ...

[Rightly Biased]

Lockhart Tx

BBQ capitol of Texas.

its the Texas Live oak for smoking and the German influence on taking time to smoke it right.

If it needs sauce you are doing it wrong.

[StayoutdaBushesWay]

I just went to Chris and Pitt’s on Saturday, as a matter of fact I brought home a few bottles of their Bleu Cheese dressing, it’s the best.

I’ve had some BBQ pulled pork here and there and the only place I found that actually did it close to the real thing (with slaw and the right sauce) is Johnny Reb’s in Bellflower, it’s pretty good. :-)

[Conan the Librarian]

List is invalid because they didn’t have Augusta Ga. on the list.

Best BBQ in the Universe is Sconyer’s of Augusta. Bar none.

Any place that thinks the BBQ is a cooking process doesn’t know BBQ.

I wrote this to explain.

They don’t grow BBQ in Texas. It’s that smoked beef stuff.

“BBQs are animals, not, a way of cooking meat.

They are pink, porcine looking creatures that walk about on two legs with a top hat, a walking stick and sometimes a Tux.

While smiling a lot, they can be rather fierce, specially if they have been eating lots of peppers, vinegar, mustard, or other hot spices.

If you should fear confrontation from a BBQ, one should have a fork and plate ready, with a loaf of bread, Brunswick Stew or rice hash, and a large Sweetened Iced Tea. Armed thus, the BBQ will vanish pretty quick.”

[Coldwater Creek]

You are making me homesick! We always went to the one on Washington Blvd. in Whittier or Downey.

[Quix]

I found a website . . .

but under listed locations, the ONLY one was Jakarta.

You can order their sauce etc. online.

I think the headquarters are still listed as California or some such . . . let me check.

Diamond Bar, California

http://www.lovesbbq.com/main.html

[RegulatorCountry]

Barbecue Joe’s on Fairfield at South Main in High Point, NC isn’t bad at all.

Order the Joe, a pound of chopped or pulled pork on Texas toast. Your choice of Down East, Lexington and several other styles, topped with creamy sweet coleslaw or hot red barbecue slaw, $6.18 including tax.

Down East with coleslaw is my perspnal favorite.

[Coldwater Creek]

Thanks for your trouble, but I live in #1 Memphis. I did used to import Chris and Pitts sauce though.

[RegulatorCountry]

Why would we sneer, you’re using a modified NC sauce. Not foreign at all. We don’t typically go for sugar in the sauce, true. The sweet to counterbalance the tang is either the coleslaw or the nanner puddin around here.

It’s all good, seldom have I had bad barbecue outside South Carolina mustard mush.

[SharpRightTurn]

If in Martin, TN, try Damron’s.

Excellent pulled pork BBQ.

[Haddit]

Dr. Hogly Wolgly’s Tylor Texes BBQ is great, but my wife doesn’t like it.

The Bear Pit on Supulveda has been there forever and I have never found anyone that didn’t love it.

But nothing compares to San Luis Obispo, California, Every Thursday night they close down the streets to cars, they pull in these trailers that are huge BBQ’s, they stoke up the Oak and there is nothing more heavenly than what you can eat there sitting on the curb.

But hurry up if you want to experience this, the Mexicans are moving in.

[dfwgator]

Years ago, I used to go to Syracuse a lot on business....and I became quite enamored with the Dinosaur Barbecue there. Still have a couple bottles of their hot sauce.

[Quix]

Yeah.

Jakarta’s a bit far for me to go for dinner or lunch, too.

Used to would have been a LOT closer but not now! LOL.

[Moleman]

There will be peace in the Middle East before there is an agreement here on BBQ LOL

[mylife]

Thanks for the road trip tip.