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The rankings in this list are determined by Robert Moss, Southern Living's Contributing Barbecue Editor, based upon many years of traveling the South eating barbecue. He has dined at each and every restaurant on this list in person and has visited almost all of them multiple times.
When compiling each year's list, he revisits as many previous honorees and as many potential new contenders as time will allow. There are no score sheets or empirical grading systems employed. Instead, it is a qualitative ranking based upon the enjoyment of the meal and the overall experience of the visit.
A ping out to the Texas Ping list, founded by Windflier.
Just thought I would start a fight among BBQ aficionados. I am going to start by pinging the Texas folks to the thread.
It's a long list, and there are 17 Texas BBQ joints on the list. Please note that there are a lot of other scoring for this list besides flavor and sauce.
Oh, and the author lives nearby to #1.
Another special Texas summer edition for your perusal.
As always, please FReepmail me if you want on or off the Texas Ping list.
Blessings, and stay cool!
BBQ is highly overrated. What used to be a nominally priced restaurant choice has ballooned into fat meat that is too charred or greasy with crappy sauces and costs too much. Every establishment wants to put their own twist on the sauce and usually screw it up and make it too spicey (hot) or tastes like ditch water. I would venture that only 1 out every 20 places are worth eating.
When you do find one that is good you can’t afford to eat there compared to other options. You can do much better at your own home for less than half the cost.
The #1 BBQ joint in the Lower Peninsula is my backyard in Midland.
Prove me wrong.
See my #4 and if you are critique-ing...just DM me with your choice of meat.
I’ve got wings on for this evening.
Very true.
But I did like Stanley’s in Tyler, Texas. Been a while, though.
We ate at Interstellar BBQ in Austin a couple of years ago. Very fancy cooking, and I called it BBQ fit for a BBQ competition.
Not something that I would go to for a regular meal.
Plenty of those places still left, and you can tell them by the smoke marks around the smoker.
BTW, I would visit several of these joints in his list, if only because the chimney/smokehouse has 50+ years of soot.
“Best of” Lists = Who wants to pay me the most money
I got my crabs at Dirty Dicks.
Outlaws in Daingerfield was pretty good. Haven’t been there in few years (I moved), but he was cost effective and the best I have had to date. He also made his peach cobbler every morning and it was awesome.
I do like County Line (in Austin on the river west of town) they are good but again overly pricey.
Believe it or not Rippy’s in Nashville on Broadway was pretty good when I was there last year.
My issue with every place in Lockhart (and central Texas) is it is too blackened. If I want burnt meat, I would let my ex cook it.
Pinging out to the Texas Ping! list
Q39 Kansas/Missouri.
Years ago we did BBQ tasting in Lenexa and since it was our first year, we got to test brisket, chicken etc. all the common ones. If we would have kept participating, you moved up further in tasting and got to try exotic meats like alligator, ostrich etc. I like beef, port and chicken myself.
Man, I would love to take a road trip and try it all, but I don’t think my cardiologist would go with me.
Wow — Roanoke actually took a spot on the list. I guess I’ll have to head over there and check it out. And there are a few more within 2-3 hours of me — I smell a BBQ road trip!
We have a really good one in Lynchburg that I was hoping would make the list. I didn’t think it would, but I was hoping.
It’s been over twenty years since I’ve eaten there - but I am particular to Arthur Bryant’s in Kansas City.
Somewhere at home is a picture of a thinner me with more hair digging into a rack of ribs there. Their barbeque sauce is (IMHO) what makes it so good. It’s not that sugary crap. It’s got a great flavor.
There is NO good BBQ in Louisville. It makes me sad
Yes! One of my fondest memories of Kansas City is Arthur Bryant’s! Hickory smoked brisket with sauce on the side.
I think it’s kind of interesting that Big Bob Gibson’s in Decatur, AL is listed as #21, but just won the National BBQ Championship a few months ago, I think for the 13th time.
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