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These Are the 10 Restaurants Every Barbecue Lover Must Visit
Food & Wine ^ | June 23 2025 | Greg Baker

Posted on 06/27/2025 8:13:59 AM PDT by texas booster

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To: mykroar

12 Bones in Asheville, NC is good
Really like Southern Soul in St. Simons, GA

Not to mention my backyard blueberry-chipotle ribs...
from what the neighbors say....


41 posted on 06/27/2025 10:29:42 AM PDT by SakoL61R
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To: GenXPolymath

Bbq bookmark for December


42 posted on 06/27/2025 10:30:20 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Nitzy, now with 88% plausibly anti-Semitic posts!)
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To: Tommy Revolts

The only time I have ever stood in a Star Wars caliber blockbuster line for a restaurant was at Jack Stack BBQ, KC. It was very worth it!


43 posted on 06/27/2025 10:36:59 AM PDT by Theophilus (covfefe)
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To: 9422WMR

Texas Pete is made in NC. fyi.

I think the world should agree you don’t need, and shouldn’t be covering bbq in MSG. That’s what Scott does. So much so he calls MSG “Jesus’ Tears.”


44 posted on 06/27/2025 10:53:12 AM PDT by Vision (“Our Democracy” means "Our Slush Fund." The Left is hate.)
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To: texas booster

Joe’s in KC. Q39 in KC should have been considered too.


45 posted on 06/27/2025 11:05:27 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: KC Burke

Vinegary NC sauce.


46 posted on 06/27/2025 11:06:03 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: texas booster

Some years back while working in S Carolina I was invited to dinner where the restaurant served BBQ. Having my mouth set from birth on Texas BBQ, I nearly embarrassed myself by almost up-chucking my first taste of East coast BBQ, specifically the Carolinas. I was unprepared for the overpowering vinegar overtones in the sauce, the coleslaw, the potato salad, etc. Thank goodness the iced tea was about normal.

Contrast that with what passes for BBQ up in the Idaho region. The two times that I had their local BBQ it seemed to be a slice of roast with spicy tomato sauce poured over it - less than appealing.


47 posted on 06/27/2025 11:19:19 AM PDT by ByteMercenary (Election 2020 was stolen by mail-in voting.)
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To: texas booster

Living and travelling in the South since 1986 has been a delight when sampling real BBQ smoked meats! A few months ago our local VFW had a BBQ cookoff fundraiser...got to sample and judge 15 different entries.

One guy from 3 hours away from the NEGA mountains asked me to try his pulled pork without sauce...he would provide sauce once I had tasted without (if I wanted to...) That was the most delicious pulled pork ever! He won 1st place.

The bad news...he does not have a restaurant, nor sell at all...strictly enters competitions. I’m still sad.


48 posted on 06/27/2025 11:49:18 AM PDT by Prov1322 (Enjoy my wife's incredible artwork at www.watercolorARTwork.com! (This space no longer for rent))
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To: texas booster

McMillon’s Bar-B-Que in Pompano Beach, Florida is very good, however...

A white person going in person is putting their life in danger. Go with a black friend or better...send a black friend to pick it up.


49 posted on 06/27/2025 11:51:45 AM PDT by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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To: texas booster

Wife and her family go crazy for Craig’s in DeValls Bluff, Ark. Literal shack.

Take out only. Cash only.


50 posted on 06/27/2025 11:54:03 AM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: Fledermaus

Nick’s Catfish and BBQ in Carlisle, Ark. is pretty good.


51 posted on 06/27/2025 11:55:11 AM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: texas booster

While traveling for work with a couple of other guys we were referred to #7 Big Bob’s by the people we were visiting there. After the “meal” we left with the idea that our local friends were either pulling a joke on us or that they really disliked us. It was an absolutely terrible dining experience!


52 posted on 06/27/2025 11:55:30 AM PDT by TonyM (Score Event)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

I went to Interstellar BBQ in Austin, and agree with other reviews that it is a really special, competition level BBQ.

However, once standing in that line, to pay that much is enough.

I’ll try your recommendation when I am in San Antonio in late July.


53 posted on 06/27/2025 12:04:00 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: texas booster

Pierce’s BBQ in Williamsburg, VA. In business since 1971, Carolina style sauce.


54 posted on 06/27/2025 12:05:07 PM PDT by damper99
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To: texas booster

Bunkhouse BBQ, Clifton, TX

If yer stuck in N. Georgia, Biguns between Jasper and Ellijay.


55 posted on 06/27/2025 12:15:44 PM PDT by misanthrope (Deranged, sinister, deplorable troll)
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To: texas booster

JD’s Smokehouse.
Best in NC.

Exit 113 off I-40.


56 posted on 06/27/2025 12:17:50 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

sssshhhhhhhhh.......

We don’t need the lines to be longer for lunch!!!!!! 😉


57 posted on 06/27/2025 12:22:32 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: texas booster
The Salt Lick, Round Rock, Texas.

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58 posted on 06/27/2025 12:27:56 PM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: texas booster

...found it to be overpriced and ordinary. The brisket was dry and the rib was too much smoked fat before you found the meat. Don’t rec vs the other Austin favs... ymmv


59 posted on 06/27/2025 12:38:14 PM PDT by PalominoGuy ( )
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To: Tommy Revolts

Have you ever tried pecan wood? That’s all we use anymore. Subtle and goes with EVERYTHING.


60 posted on 06/27/2025 1:15:02 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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