Category Barbecue
Walls Barbecue Restaurant – Savannah, GA
The first time that we attempted to eat at Wall’s BBQ, it was dark and pouring down rain. And we could not find the restaurant. You see, it’s on one of the weird non-streets that they have in Savannah. We kept driving around where our GPS thought it was and never saw it. You access […]
Crafty Hog – Smyrna, GA
I discovered the Crafty Hog in an article earlier this year in the Atlanta Business Chronicle about new barbecue places in the metro and made a note of a new place on the west side. Then we actually drove by it about a month ago, but not near time for food. When is not a […]
The Joint – New Orleans, LA
On a recent trip to Metairie, the folks I was meeting with asked what was on my agenda. “A decent lunch” was part of my reply. By 11:00, we had a couple of choices, both in the Bywater neighborhood. I was not familiar with this area, which is on the river, over by Crescent City […]
The Bar B Q Place – Fort Payne, AL
Jo always says that it’s not a matter of if she’ll get food poisoning, but rather when. Today, as we got back in the car, she began to sing, “This. Could be the day.” And thus ended the story of our first agreed-upon epic barbecue failure. Driving to Scottsboro, AL, we had stopped in […]
Red Bridges Barbecue Lodge – Shelby, NC
Red Bridge Barbecue Lodge, in Shelby, is one of the icons of North Carolina barbecue. In fact, they had recently won a barbecue bracket contest (think of a NCAA tournament bracket) sponsored by Garden & Gun magazine, as the national barbecue champion. You can check out the bracket here. You’ll notice several places we’ve visited […]
Barbecue Hut – Fayetteville, NC
In anticipation of looking for North Carolina barbecue near our daughter’s new hometown in metropolitan Fayetteville, I was striking out finding anything close. I “asked the Oracle”, twice, queried the Barbecue Brothers for suggestions and consulted Google. Both provided a couple of references, but nothing that cried out “eat here” with any authority. […]
BBQ Barn – North Augusta, SC
Since we hadn’t driven anywhere lately, we took off this weekend up to Fayetteville, NC to visit our daughter and her husband. If you’d have asked me the best way to get from Atlanta to Fayetteville, I never would have guessed that you would take I-20 east until it ends and drive briefly north, but […]
Archibald’s Bar-B-Que – Northport, AL
One of the articles I saved earlier this year sent us to Northport, near Birmingham. Most folks, when they think of ribs in this area automatically steer toward Dreamland (on a side note, please don’t judge Dreamland based on visiting the franchise locations in Georgia – do yourself a favor and drive to Tuscaloosa, or […]
Abe’s Bar-B-Q – Clarksdale, MS
We rolled into Clarksdale, just ahead of a storm that we had driven through for most of the last 100 miles, following us like a “Hellhound on My Trail”. Driving south through Arkansas into Mississippi, we were going down to the crossroads, hoping to catch Abe’s Bar-B-Q, as opposed to a ride. Or the devil (like […]
McClard’s Bar-B-Q – Hot Springs, AR
This was the night that I was sure my insistence on relying on the GPS on my phone (as opposed to renting one) was going to come back and bite me in the butt. Leaving Dallas, with a hotel reservation in Little Rock, had left us with quite a drive ahead of us. I […]
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