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Queen City Q’s newest location is…

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Barbecue Bros favorite Queen City Q has been teasing their new location on Twitter for the past few days, and this morning we received a press release announcing a partnership between them and the new BB&T Ballpark for Queen City Q to become the official barbecue of the Charlotte Knights.

There is a lot of buzz with the new ballpark moving uptown from Fort Mill, and this only adds to the reasons to make it to more games than I have in the past – which shouldn’t be hard, considering I have been to 3 games in 9 years.

Full press release below:

BB&T Ballpark is All About the “Q”
Knights to Serve Queen City Q BBQ at Home Games
(Uptown Charlotte, NC) – The Charlotte Knights and Charlotte’s premier BBQ restaurant —Queen City Q — are partnering together to serve fans delicious BBQ at BB&T Ballpark. As part of this historic partnership, Queen City Q will become the Official BBQ of the Charlotte Knights and “The Q” will have locations inside BB&T Ballpark for all games and events.   
“We really wanted to work with a great locally-owned business to provide delicious food and something unique for our fans,” said Chris Semmens, VP of Sales. “Their outstanding BBQ and commitment to our fan experience make them the perfect choice. It’s great that they are our Uptown neighbors too!”

“We’re incredibly excited to be working with the Knights and can’t wait to serve all of their fans,” said Bryan Meredith, Queen City Q’s Managing Partner. “BB&T Ballpark is an amazing facility and will be a really fun venue to enjoy baseball and more. We’ll be serving up a variety of great BBQ and some ballpark-only surprises. Plus, we’re continuing one of the main reasons we opened our restaurant in the first place, and that’s to create jobs.”

Queen City Q serves award-winning BBQ and is located at 225 E. 6th Street in Uptown Charlotte. The “Q” serves up a melding of styles from eastern NC, western NC and SC and is created in house from homemade recipes.

The Knights will open BB&T Ballpark on Friday night, April 11 at 7:05 p.m. against the Norfolk Tides. Season tickets, as well as group tickets for the 2014 inaugural season at BB&T Ballpark, are on sale now and can be purchased by phone at (980) 207-0079, by email at seasonseats@charlotteknights.com, or in person by stopping by the Knights Uptown Offices located at Packard Place, 222 South Church Street, 3rd floor, between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on Monday through Friday. For more information about Charlotte Knights Baseball, log on to www.charlotteknights.com. 

Tommy Viola
Director of PR/Media Relations
Charlotte Knights Baseball Club
570-977-9482 – cell
tommyv@charlotteknights.com

Bryan Meredith
bryan@queencityq.com
704.877.1316 Cell
704.334.8437 Restaurant
@bryanmeredith  Twitter 
@theQclt

-Monk

Was North Carolina’s First Barbecue Restaurant in Charlotte (and Not Lexington)?

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This blog post may be from 2012, but as it turns out the first barbecue stand/restaurant may have been here in Charlotte a good two decades before the Lexington stands set up shop outside the courthouse. According to Google Street View, 13 South Church Street is the corner of Church and W. Trade, possibly where King’s Kitchen is currently located.

While Charlotte may not have the best reputation for barbecue (the blog post above mentions both Shelby and Lexington as better destinations for barbecue that aren’t too far away), it’s kind of cool to learn that the city does have some history.

-Monk

Was North Carolina’s First Barbecue Restaurant in Charlotte (and Not Lexington)?

Rodney Scott

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Pitmaster, Rodney Scott. Photos by Angie Mosier

During the last census, Hemingway, South Carolina, was recorded to have just under 500 residents; we’re willing to bet that Rodney Scott has fed each and every one of them.

Rodney is a force. His passion for life is evident in his commitment to community, his loyalty to his friends, his willingness to help his neighbors, and certainly in the food he prepares at Scott’s Bar-B-Que, his family’s longtime business, located in Hemingway, just 49 miles west of Myrtle Beach.

Rodney has cooked for Billy Reid countless times over the years and is as good and true a friend as ever we’ve known. And don’t even get us started on his BBQ, not to mention his special sauce. It’s life changing – and we like our BBQ, so we should know.

In November, the pit house behind Scott’s, where Rodney can smoke up to 14 hogs over his preferred wood mix of hickory, oak, and pecan, was lost to a fire. Though that setback didn’t slow Rodney down much as you might think, in a true testament to his friendship, the national group of chefs, restaurateurs, thinkers, and entrepreneurs that call themselves the Fatback Collective rallied to concoct a plan to help Rodney rebuild the pits and continue to feed and nourish his community.

Enter the Rodney in Exile BBQ Tour. Over the next two weeks, Rodney will be touring the southeast, stopping in Atlanta, Nashville, Birmingham, Oxford, New Orleans, with a finale stop in Charleston to do what he does best with members of the Fatback Collective, who in addition to being very devoted friends also just happen to be some of the best chefs in the United States. (They’re all too humble to tell you that, but we can certainly brag on them.)

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“BBQ, East vs West”

The NC Farm Bureau brings you a short primer on NC barbecue and its two styles.

Barbeque in North Carolina is a tradition and a way of life. In this feature we introduce you to several barbeque chefs who claim that their style, eastern vs. Lexington, is the best.

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