Last year, in light of Red Bridges winning Garden & Gun Magazine’s Barbecue Bracket, Bob Garner revisited the Barbecue Bros favorite for UNC TV’s NC Now.
Also, another congrats to Red Bridges for winning this year’s Thrillist Best BBQ Spot in America Bracket. That makes a repeat of sorts.
– Eastern NC barbecue is coming to Etowah in Western NC from one of the guys behind the Bling Pig Supper Club in Asheville
– Whereas Elliott Moss was the first to bring whole hog barbecue to the area so here’s a profile from Food Republic
– The final stops for Grant on his barbecue tour of (mostly North) Carolina barbecue joints: a Lexington Barbecue redux, Richard’s in Salisbury, and Mike & Jeff’s BBQ Diner in Greenville
New blog post: revisiting Lexington #BBQ (aka Monk’s) in NC for a terrific late lunch. https://t.co/KKxxZOH1Mx pic.twitter.com/kf5xQaCgd7
— Grant Goggans (@MarieLetsEat) April 13, 2016
– B’s BBQ and Lexington Barbecue make this list of 25 Restaurants You Have To Visit In North Carolina Before You Die
– The BBQ on the Bluff competition is this weekend in Fair Bluff, NC
– Would NC uniting under a mustard-based barbecue sauce lead to the immediate repeal of HB#2? Charlotte Magazine thinks so in this tongue-in-cheek article
– Some are even getting their own Heinz barbecue sauce…
BBQ pitmasters are finally getting the star treatment. Sort of. https://t.co/RocBFRUb9O pic.twitter.com/1zOz1T3CSM
— Food Republic (@foodrepublic) April 19, 2016
Here’s a short featuring Elliott Moss of Buxton Hall BBQ in Asheville, NC that was produced by Schedulefly, a restaurant scheduling and communications platform. If interested, they have also created more of them on NC brewers, bakers, baristas, and more.
– Grant continues his barbecue tour of the NC Piedmont (that neither Speedy nor Monk were unable to join him on any part of, sadly): Smiley’s in Lexington, Fuzzy’s in Madison, Stamey’s in Greensboro, and Little Richard’s in Winston-Salem
New blog post: Excellent #BBQ at Stamey’s in Greensboro NC. https://t.co/xG8s8XM7xs pic.twitter.com/9q5MLwTTv7
— Grant Goggans (@MarieLetsEat) April 10, 2016
– On his book blog, Grant also reviews a new barbecue book, “The One True Barbecue” by Rien Fertels, who along with photographer Denny Culbert was behind The Barbecue Bus
– The book is also included in this rundown along with John Shelton Reed’s upcoming book Barbecue
– Robert Moss posits that wood v gas is perhaps the wrong question when it comes to barbecue
– Shots fired from Alton Brown at unnamed southern barbecue restaurants
“It’s funny with barbecue, because the most beloved barbecue places in the South, by and large, serve the shittiest barbecue. I will stand by that. Places that people will drive hours to get to, barbecue’s not that great, but it’s still there. It’s been there. My mom brought me here. My grandparents are from here.?
– In case you were wondering what “Cleveland-style barbecue” was again…
You’re calling the food at Mabel’s “Cleveland-style barbecue.” What does that mean, exactly?
We’re inspired more by Eastern Europe than the South in our flavor profile. Cleveland is a big Eastern European melting pot, so I wanted to offer a menu that reflected the cuisine. For instance, instead of hot links, we serve kielbasa. Our spice blends, our sides… they’re very reminiscent of what you’d find in Cleveland, like smoked beets with horseradish, sauerkraut and Cleveland brown mustard. We’re also smoking with apple and cherry woods, which are native to the region.