Monk: Sam Jones and his pitmaster Lindsay Bortle – who can cook a hog just as good as Sam, according to him – take Eater’s Smoke Point through the process at his Sam Jones BBQ restaurant in Raleigh.
Description: Carolina barbecue legend Sam Jones comes from a long legacy of cooking a whole hog, with his grandfather, father, and uncle all coming before him. At his no-frills restaurant, Sam Jones BBQ, he and his team preserve their tradition of cooking whole hog, chicken, turkey, and more.
Sam Jones BBQ has boozy slushies available at both their Winterville and Raleigh locations
BBQ Fest on the Neuse team registration is now open
Tickets still available for Noble Smoke’s Pitmaster Experience on November 11
Some photos from Grady’s
Jon G’s was featured in Garden & Gun on pre-cooked Thanksgiving food
The last Jon G’s pop-up of the year is at Triple C Brewing today
John Tanner’s recent barbecue stops:
The Hickory Pit in East Ridge, TN
Rusty’s Bar-B-Q in Leeds, AL
Holy Smokes BBQ Festival is this weekend and tickets can be had for 50% off
Secondhand Smoke will be serving this Veteran’s Day at the old Pete’s BBQ in Rock Hill
Palmira Barbecue cooked hogs with Khoi Barbecue at last weekend’s Texas Monthly BBQ Fest held in Lockhart
J.C. Reid hits up Heritage Barbecue in southern California
Daniel Vaughn reviews “From Barbycye to Barbecue” by Joe Haynes and found it “convincing, and sometimes exhausting”
Monk: Better late than never, here’s all the Charlotte-area barbecue news you may have missed from July through September of this year
7/14 – Noble Smoke makes Axios Charlotte’s 25 best restaurants in Charlotte right now at #25
7/29 – A reintroduction to Garren and Kelly of Jon G’s Barbecue
8/8 – The Runaway Charlotte Longhorn Bull saga began, which I recapped in a linkdown
8/10 – Meet Pit Boss Natasha of Firehawk Brewpub
8/13 – Meet Miss Angie of Sweet Lew’s Barbeque
8/20 – New Charlotte-area barbecue joint Firehawk Brewpub does an explainer on their unique way of doing ribs
8/29 – Slash of Guns N’ Roses is the latest celebrity to stop by Midwood Smokehouse; here he is with pitmaster Matthew Berry
9/9 – Sweet Lew’s Barbeque announced they will be doing “Whole Hog Sundays” during NFL season
9/11 – We published our review of Firehawk Brewpub
9/12 – The Pitmaster Experience at Noble Smoke was announced as coming back
9/15 – The 92nd Annual Mallard Creek Barbecue was officially confirmed as on for 2023 but as drive-through only
Monk: In a recent podcast interview, Kevin’s BBQ Joints finally managed to interview Garren and Kelly Kirkman from Barbecue Bros favorite Jon G’s Barbecue. It covers a wide range of topics from Garren growing up on a beef farm in NC to their beginnings as a pop-up to quitting their fulltime jobs to open a restaurant during COVID. A great primer for folks who may be new to Jon G’s.