Best BBQ in your state or any other you've visited

bocaoma · Posted: Oct 01 2008 Post subject:

[quote="Slosmokes"]Cornbread and hush puppies with BBQ?

those are good sides with fried fish! how about BBQ & fried chicken!
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lantern · Posted: Oct 02 2008 Post subject:

If I go to a NC joint with no hushpuppies or sweet slaw I walk out. Period. There are things that HAVE to be there if you're cooking BBQ according to certain regions. In NC, it pork, vinegar, hushpuppies, slaw and a bun. Anything after that is icing on the cake anything LESS and you fail. Very Happy

speedtrap · Newbie Joined: 27 Mar 2006 Posts: 39 Location: Detroit

Well being as im on the road alot I have a few from Different states.

Angus Pit Stop BBQ
608 S Service Rd
Calera, OK 74730
(580) 434-7867

They have the best Basic dry rub ribs I have ever eaten and there sweet tea is great, No PP just smoker Pork Loin and there Briskit is great as well. Sauce is on the side and has wonderful flavor...

KIBBS BBQ
1102 E Harrison St
Stuttgart, AR 72160
870-673-2072

Strange story but at about 10:30 in the evening during a week day I stumbled on this place. Got 2 Briskit Sandwiches with Medium Sauce and 2 PP Sand's with Slaw and Med Sauce at there walk up window... I jumped back in the truck and drove off. Got about 4 miles down the road and my buddy and I looked at eachother slammed on the brakes did a U-Turn and went back. We each ordered 5 Pounds of Briskit, 5 Pounds of PP and 10 Suasage Links and had them wraped and iced to go. I cant tell you how good there Briskit is. Espically late when they just pulled it off the smoker..
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Poppa's PTL Club · Posted: Nov 11 2008 Post subject:

Bucky's BBQ in Greenville, SC. Best commercially available BBQ I've had in 20+ years of traveling around the country, bar none (no one else is even close). I've been numerous times and they are remarkably consistent as well.
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[quote="SoEzzy"]Following the idea in the best bbq restaurant thread here is a place to post your best bbq restaurant.

USA

Ohio- Barbecue Revue 4725 Madison Road Cincinnati
Kentucky- Old Hickory Pit BBQ Owensboro
East Tennessee- Ridgewood BBQ 900 Old Eliszabethton Hwy. Bluff City
North Carolina- Lexington #1 BBQ Lexington
Georgia- Old Hickory Pig Hwy 60 North side of Gainesville
Texas- Louie Mueller's Taylor
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thepitboss · Posted: Jan 10 2009 Post subject:

There are several in the Kansas City area. However my personal top three are as follows:

Zarda's- I would not say that it ranks as the world's best, but it is very consistant. I love the sauce. Located in Lenexa, Ks and there is another one on the Mo side.

K&M- Located in Spring Hill, Ks it is usually good. They have a sandwich called the Killer Combo that is a you pick three meats they put it on a six inch bun (triple stacked of course) and you try to cram it in your mouth. There has to be at least two pounds of meat on the thing. The sauce is not bad either.

Gates- Several locations around the metro area. There infamous "Hi may I help you" and you better know what you want or they will just move on to the next person till you do. The overall flavor is good and the sauce is ok, but like with Zarda's they are very consistant.

Jack Stack I have not been to. Rosedale BBQ is good, but it has been nearly a quarter century since I have eaten there. I guess that the BBQ Shack in Paola, KS is good. I have not eaten there, but I have had a few employees that have raved about it. And he belongs to the smoke ring.
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monty · Posted: Jan 10 2009 Post subject:

Best BBQ in Iowa is Smokey D's (Ankeny) - hands down!
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ctc · Joined: 24 Jan 2009 Posts: 6

Rudy's in Round Rock/Austin, TX. Good everything.

Carolina Brother's in Ashburn, VA. Best Carolina style in Northern VA.

jeepdad · Posted: Feb 06 2009 Post subject:

Shelby, North Carolina

Alston Bridges Barbecue Inc
620 E Grover St
Shelby, NC 28150
(704) 482-1998‎

Bridges Barbecue Lodge
2000 E Dixion Blvd
Shelby, NC 28150
(704) 482-8567‎

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evo · Posted: Feb 06 2009 Post subject:

Longhorn Cattle Co BBQ & Steak in San Benito Texas.
Best chicken ever.
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SHELLFISH · Posted: Feb 23 2009 Post subject:

I've been to Bridges in Shelby NC and agree with you; it's very good!
In Gastonia NC there are several that are good.
But Hillbillies is my favorite! Their sweet tea is just right and the hushpuppies are great!

That's my favorite part of the State to visit beacause of their BBQ's!
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lantern · Posted: Feb 24 2009 Post subject:

jeepdad · Posted: Mar 03 2009 Post subject:

lantern, I was in NC last week on business and picked up a case each of Cheerwine and Sundrop. You ever poured cheerwine over vanilla ice cream? mmmmm

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enzyme80 · Newbie Joined: 04 Mar 2009 Posts: 31

Mass - Lester's bbq in Burlington. decent ribs great pulled pork.

jyakimic · Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 11 Location: Indiana

Indiana... strangely both in Lafayette (well not strangely, I think the second one was opened by a former partner of the first)...

South Street Smokehouse (HWY 26 & 52 intersection just behind the muffler or brake shop and the acropolis greek restaurant. Everything is damn good.

Scagnoli's Cajun and BBQ .. downtown on corner of 6th and Main. As you can tell by the name, they do traditional bbq stuff AND cajun.

Both are well worth your visit...I have consistently had better bbq at both places than at some of the places I've visited in other cities based on their bbq awards and notoriety.

*******EDIT********** Scagnoli's has closed since I wrote this...a damn shame.

Slosmokes · Newbie Joined: 17 Jul 2007 Posts: 83

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yup smoker · Newbie Joined: 25 Mar 2009 Posts: 27 Location: Midland, MI

By far my favorite BBQ joint has been Lagerheads in Abbeyville, OH. I had some of there ribs at a rib cookoff in my town. On a trip to florida this past winter i had the chance to swing through the resteraunt. WHAT A PLACE! For whatever reason, i expected it to be some big ritzy chain looking resteraunt in the middle of some busy part of town. When i got within about 50 yards of the place i was starting to suspect my directions were bunk while looking around a quiet country-ish neighborhood - i had mistaken the resteraunt for somebodies house! Inside had a nice warm home-y feeling like everybody else in the place knew each other by name. Aside from the atmosphere totally selling me, the food was excellent as expected, and the beer selection was nice too!

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mtrammel · Posted: May 31 2009 Post subject: Georgia

Fresh Air BBQ in Jackson GA (Southeast of Atlanta) off hwy 42 is great.
Old buildings with sawdust on the ground, pulled pork and brunswick stew is my fav.

(I will head to Bub-Ba-Q asap though since its listed here, hadnt been there...no offense fellow member)
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AUTiger_1 · Newbie Joined: 26 Jan 2009 Posts: 54 Location: Alabama

Here in Alabama and in my humble opinion.

Ribs- The original Dreamland in Tuscaloosa, the others are not that great to me. It's been years since I have been. Also Crite's right outside of Athens near the nuclear plant has some might fine ribs. If anyone goes there it looks like a hole in the wall, dirty and old, but the health dept gives them very high ratings, I just think it is the age of the building that gives it that look.

Brisket- Personally I prefer Chuck Wagon in Madison. If my briskets turned out that good, I would be a happy man.

Pulled Pork- I like Chuck's in Opelika/Auburn, look forward to it every football season.

Sauce- There is a little place off the beaten path in Hollywood that I haven't been to in about 6 or 7 years called "Mud Creek BBQ" and they use to have the best sauce I have ever ate. Unfortunately the owner and his wife have now passed on and I think the sauce recipe went with them. They were outstanding folks and were close to my dad's family. Delicious sauce, but even better company.

I like Big Bob Gibson's (in Decatur) pies for dessert, and the food is pretty good as well.

1MoreFord · Posted: Jun 25 2009 Post subject:

The best I've had - so far!

DeValls Bluff, AR - Craigs BBQ
Little Rock, AR - Whole Hog Cafe
Sherwood, AR - JoJo's
Morgan/Maumelle, AR - Smoke Shack

Memphis, TN - Central BBQ

Lockhart, TX - Kreuz Market and Smitty's
Luling, TX - City Market
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