[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Kansas City BBQ is the best!

Gates, if still in business, Masterpiece (?), Hayward's were the ones I liked when I lived there!

I am sure the names have changed in the last 10 years!

[KC_Conspirator]

Arthur Bryants in KC and Gates BBQ in KC are some of the best in the country. There are some other good joints in the metro area as well.

[Maigrey]

So Which one did you go to? Corky's or Rendezvous?

-Maigrey-

[SubSailor]

Famous Dave's BBQ. Budding chain restaurant. Has about 60 restaurants around the country. I have tried almost everything on their menu and have loved it all. The ribs are perfect. Slow-smoked, not boiled like some restaurants try to pass off as BBQ. Here's a link: (Note, only works in Internet Explorer I think)

http://famousdaves.com/

[Taylor42]

In Houston, there's a place called Pe'te BBQ. The best cajun bbq I've ever had. It's across the street from Ellington Field where the astronauts fly out of. The inside of the place (an old gas station) has autographed pictures of astronauts from the Apollo days. Whenever I go home, I always try to stop by.

[carolina rebel]

Son, you just need to come to North Carolina. Start in the City of Lexington, and just head east!
They're are just to many to write of here,we have written books on it, had specials on TV, and last weekend we had a BBQ festival in Lexington!

[kellynla]

For pork you can't beat Memphis. The other FReepers who recommend other places west of the Mississippi are talking about beef which, pardon the pun, is a totally different animal.

[ErnBatavia]

I like your profile...got the "munchies", eh? Well, if you get to Southern Kalifornia, try Doctor Hogalie Wogely in the San Fernando Valley - a hole in the wall with a perennial line around the block.

[narby]

Joe's BBQ in beautiful downtown Gilbert AZ.

It's a relativly new place, but in a restored brick building, right across the street from the "Liberty Market" that's been in business for 75 years or so.

Joe's has awsome brisket that you can pick up from a take out window on the street. The only bad part is that I moved away from Gilbert and its no longer on my way home from work.

It was even great in the early morning, when we'd go to breakfast at another wonderful establishment called the "Farm House" across the street. Walking into the Farm House, you could smell the wood fires being stoked up so they could smoke the BBQ all day long.

No Liquid Smoke at Joe's. It was the real thing.

[PokeyJoe]

Pokey Joe's BBQ - Austin, Texas
Coopers BBQ - Round Rock, Texas
Kreuz Market - Lockhart, Texas
Southside Market - Elgin, Texas
Macks' Split Rain BBQ - Mineola, Texas
Louie Mueller BBQ - Taylor, Texas

If you can't tell - I like BBQ. =)

[hispanarepublicana]

Chicken?

How could you even bring up yard-bird in a proper barbecue discussion? Anyway, my suggestions are: Laird's Barbecue in Llano, Texas (drive past the over-rated but decent Cooper's Barbecue); Lonestar Barbecue in Brady, Texas; New Zion Missionary Baptist Church Barbecue in Huntsville, Texas (she showed up one day to barbecue meat for her husband who was doing construction at the church, started selling to the other workers, and never left--proceeds go to the church).

[Roscoe]

http://bbq.netrelief.com/restaurants.asp

[hispanarepublicana]

Oh, geez, I WAS going home for leftovers at lunch. Guess that plan's out the window, and I'll be having "guess what" instead.

[CholeraJoe]

Joe Allen's - Abilene, TX.

[LurkingOne]

Best BBQ around the GA/AL area are 3 places.

1) Best of the three, Dreamland BBQ from Tuscaloosa, AL. Absolutely the best there is, and I have lived all over the country and eaten BBQ everywhere. Only serves Ribs, half or whole slab.

2) Fat Mat's Rib Shack, very good, with excellent chicken BBQ as well. Is in Atlanta, GA.

3) The Smoke Pit, Omaha, NE. Best ribs in a 3 state area and yes, even better than KC. Its attached to a seedy strip club called The Pit in downtown Omaha near Creighton University. Fantastic Potato Salad and Baked Beans....damn good bread too. Get the ribs, they fall off the bone.

[Charlie OK]

Elmer's in Tulsa, OK.
It be bad!

[girlscout]

There is a BBQ place in Glen Rose, Texas. I can't remember the name, (I was in that town only once) but it was the best BBQ my husband and I have ever had. The brisket was melt in your mouth fabulous.

[irishtenor]

Dixie's BBQ in Bellevue Wa. has what has got to be the HOTTEST sauce in the entire world. It is called THE MAN, as in "Have you met THE MAN?" I have had "Dave's Insanity Sauce" and a lot of other hot sauces, but THE MAN is the hottest! The owner, Gene, comes around while you are eating and puts a dob or two on your BBQ. That's all you need.

[barker]

I've been to BBQ heaven in Memphis....

If it ain't from Kansas City it ain't BBQ. ;-)

[Zaxis]

Short Sugar's in Reidsville, NC and Fuzzy's BBQ in Madison, NC.