We're so happy the Jones sisters of Jones Bar-B-Q in Kansas City have seen their profile raised following their appearance on @QueerEye. They've been underrated and underappreciated until now: https://t.co/agpHLFbUno
Only in Houston could you dip a smoked turkey banh mi complete with cucumber, cilantro, pickled carrots, and daikon into sausage gumbo. Read @bbqsnob’s review of Blood Bros. BBQ, a joint that’s nailing traditional barbecue and innovating at the same time. https://t.co/TER9t5lxke
Congrats to the Tales from the Pits Podcast on their 100th episode
We’re privileged to be able to bring you this discussion with @foxbrosbarbq for our 100th episode. Good guys that have been making good BBQ in Atlanta for a long time.
“By cutting costs of operation, our long tradition of serving great eastern North Carolina barbecue and good food will be resumed quickly,” he says, adding, “I hope all our loyal customers will return when our doors are open again.”
Robert Moss on the reader-voted South’s 10 Best Barbecue Joints; Southern Soul BBQ in St. Simon’s Island in Georgia again takes the top spot
Once again, the readers have spoken . . . and it's a three-peat for @southernsoulbbq, I always enjoy doing the write ups for these. https://t.co/RRBbylkc5l.
Bill Poteat of the Gaston Gazette has his own answer to the USA Today’s 10Best reader’s poll of best barbecue in the state, and he’s put Kyle Fletcher’s BBQ at number one
Thank y’all for 32 years today of letting me serve great Bbq. Hope there’s plenty of more years left in me to continue serving y’all pic.twitter.com/sFgmyc0WKn
Name: Mr. Barbecue Date: 3/8/19 Address: 1381 Peters Creek Pkwy, Winston-Salem, NC 27103 Order: Chopped sandwich with hush puppies and Cheerwine (link to menu) Pricing: $
Monk: Despite growing up within driving distance to a lot of really great barbecue in the Piedmont of North Carolina, I didn’t go searching much beyond my usual joints (Carter Brothers when I ate barbecue in High Point, Lexington Barbecue for a special occasion). This led to me not trying Stamey’s in Greensboro until after this blog had started and it took even longer for me to get to Mr. Barbecue, a wood-burning barbecue joint in Winston-Salem open since 1962. A few weeks back, I found myself in the Twin City on a rainy Friday afternoon and it was time.
As soon as I stepped in, I realized what a bonehead move it was not to get here sooner. Mr. Barbecue is just about everything I want in a classic NC barbecue joint that just happens to be located in a city. The brick smokestacks were going full blast outside and the order counter inside had a classic joint feel (albeit slightly updated with flat screen monitors displaying the menu instead of an old school letterboard). That same classic joint feel continued into the two small dining rooms on either side of the counter as well.
I loved the actually retro feel of the paper wrapper the barbecue sandwich came in even before I dug into the sandwich itself. The wrapper proclaims that Mr. Barbecue is “genuine hickory wood bar-b-q” and I could taste that wood smoke in the chopped pork – not overpowering but a good hit of smoke. Of course, I went with slaw on my sandwich and the cold and slightly tangy red slaw contrasted the warm pork as as classic chopped pork sandwich should. And the freshly fried hush puppies were great as well. Just a damn fine NC barbecue meal.
Mr. Barbecue is a True ‘Cue certified wood burning barbecue joint that appears to do healthy business with the locals but doesn’t nearly get its due on the NC barbecue scene. I checked my NC barbecue books when I got home and it has just a short review in Bob Garner’s Book of Barbecue and a passing mention in Holy Smoke in a short article on the influence of Greeks; no mention at all in The Best Tarheel Barbecue by Winston-Salem native Jim Early, who not surprisingly hasn’t included it on the NC Barbecue Society Historic Barbecue Trail. It also hasn’t been written up in Our State Magazine or included in their recent list of 26 Essential NC Barbecue Joints. Whatever the reason for its flying-under-the-radarness, I would urge folks to give it a try, as I found it to be perhaps just a small notch below some of the best Lexington-style barbecue joints in the Piedmont.
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