Category Barbecue
The Smoke Ring – Atlanta, GA – CLOSED
THIS RESTAURANT IS CLOSED. Only open about a month, the Smoke Ring caught my attention when I saw a new billboard for it on Northside Drive, just south of Hollowell Parkway. The name didn’t ring (pun unintended) any bells – I had seen nothing about in any of the food press, that I recalled. At […]
KD’s Bar-B-Q – Midland, TX
I end up with an overnight in Midland / Odessa once or twice a year for work, which gives me a chance to catch up with a couple of friends that live there (to protect the innocent, I’ll refer to them as Altitude Boy and Pookie). This evening, when I asked where they wanted to […]
Rusty Pig Barbecue – Glenn, GA
On the journey to south Georgia that brought us to the fabulous sign in my header (at the Dairy Ranch in Jesup), my original plan was to eat at the Rusty Pig in Glennville. I won’t recant the challenge here, but as you can read in that review, we couldn’t find it. As we were […]
Hambones Southern Style BBQ – Hapeville, GA
When Grant and I were planning our co- blogging dinner (auto correct changed “dinner” to “fibber” when I originally typed that word, that may have been a Freudian confession about my food experiences) to Righteous ‘Que (chronicled here and here), I mentioned five or six barbecue joints that I had planned to go to and […]
Hottie Hawg’s Smokin’ BBQ – Atlanta, GA – CLOSED
THIS RESTAURANT IS CLOSED. For the last couple of years, as we headed down Bolton Rd to get to West Midtown, I’d been tempted by the sign for Hottie Hawg’s Smokin’ BBQ, but never could convince my passenger to eat there. Maybe it was the sexist caricature of the pig in daisy duke’s and a […]
Briar Patch Bar-B-Que – Dallas, GA
Briar Patch is, by proximity, our neighborhood barbecue place, although I haven’t eaten there in six or eight years. I went in this afternoon, well after the lunch rush, to pick up some carry out. The menus are TV screens on the wall and differ slightly between carry out and dine in (one had a […]
Righteous ‘Que – Marietta, GA
About two weeks ago, Grant from Marie, Let’s Eat, sent me an email suggesting that we find a barbecue place that neither one of us had written about and meet for lunch or dinner. I told Jo about it and she said, “That’s sweet. You have a “man-date””. Then she cautioned that “it would […]
Big Shanty BBQ – Kennesaw, GA
Big Shanty BBQ first hit my radar in the 2011 Atlanta magazine barbecue issue, when they used the magic words “banana pudding”. The article listed barbecue restaurants by county, along with their specialties. In the entry for Big Shanty, it highlighted their ribs and pulled pork – and said that their banana pudding was really […]
Southern Smoq Bar-B-Q – Flowery Branch, GA
I’d like to start this entry with a tip of the hat to Marie, Let’s Eat for pointing me toward Southern Smoq Bar-B-Q. When I got the email signalling the blog entry about their visit, I was excited to find a new place (relatively) near my office that was getting good reviews. I have a […]
Sugar’s Ribs – Chattanooga, TN
As you drive south on I-24 from Nashville, there are repeated signs touting the glories of Sugar’s Ribs (“Best Barbecue – 2011”, etc). Then as you head through Chattanoga, just as you’re about to go into the giant curve toward Atlanta, you’re suddenly confronted by this giant woman holding a tray of ribs, with a […]
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