Category Barbecue
Smokemade Meats + Eats – Orlando, FL
Heading to Disney to meet the family, we were coming in a day ahead of everyone else. I checked my list and found this entry from Texas Monthly’s “United States of Texas Barbecue”, back in September, 2024: ”The smell of fat dripping onto coals was in the air when I pulled up to Smokemade Meats […]
Station 8 Barbecue, Wichita, KS
While at the Walnut Valley Festival this week, when day time temps were heading toward 100, we took a trip to Wichita one morning. For my beloved, it was a chance to hit a few thrift stores. For me, it was a chance for barbecue. Every recommendation I could find said we needed to go […]
Hootenanny’s at the Yard – Brunswick, GA
While I was having lunch at Ford’s Barbecue last month, in talking with one of the owners, Justin, about Atlanta Barbecue, I was lamenting the loss of a great joint we used to have on the west side of town, South of Heaven, in Carrollton. Come to find out, the pitmaster at South of Heaven, […]
Ford’s BBQ – Tucker, GA
In a recent article about Atlanta barbecue, I saw a few new places (to me) pop up, Ford’s BBQ among them. With locations in Oakhurst and Tucker, I had been wanting to give it a try. On this Thursday, with a gap between meetings, I headed down that way for lunch. The interior is rather […]
Taylor’d Bar-B-Q – Avondale Estates, GA
In a recent article from Eater Atlanta, I found a barbecue place of which I had not heard – Taylor’d Bar-B-Q, in Avondale Estates. Housed in the building that was previously MoBetta Wings, this former competition barbecue team (headed by Josh McDowell) opened Taylor’d in July, 2020, in the heart of the pandemic. We asked […]
Jones Bar-B-Q Diner – Marianna, AR
A barbecue place that opens at 7:00 am, and doesn’t sell “breakfast foods”? I’m in. Open for 114 years (Yep – you read that right – one hundred and fourteen years!) and run by the fourth generation of the Jones family, this may be the oldest BBQ spot in the country. Located in a neighborhood, […]
Central BBQ – Memphis, TN
As we continued the journey, barbecue stop number two was Central B-B-Q, in Memphis. I didn’t realize until I went out to take a picture of the sign that we were one block from the Lorraine Motel and the National Civil Rights Museum. We visited this a decade or so ago, and it is powerful […]
A & R Bar-B-Q – Memphis, TN
Stop number one on the Eclipse barbecue scramble was A&R Bar-B-Q on Elvis Presley Blvd. Located on the end of a strip mall in an unassuming storefront, you’re confronted with the counter as soon as you walk in. The first thing I noticed was the happy hour frozen drink specials. This is a ‘cue place […]
Westside Bar-B-Que & Cakes – New Albany, MS
For the last 10 years, I’ve had Westside Bar-B-Que (& Cakes) in New Albany, Mississippi, on my list. And we’ve driven thru New Albany at least twelve times, over those years. But we were never there on the right day. We always are driving thru on Wednesday or Monday, going to or from the Walnut […]
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