Launch party for The Great NC BBQ Map at NoDa Brewing (at NoDa Brewing Company)
The Great NC BBQ Map
Linkdown: 7/23/14
– Yea, this list of best barbecue according to Open Table isn’t flawed at all. Because everyone knows the best barbecue comes from the places that take reservations.
– Carolina Ribs on the Run in Mooresville is blaming its closure on the construction of Brawley School Road, though I went the other week (review coming) and I would probably blame it on the subpar barbecue
– In other barbecue closure news, Asheville restaurant Sky City BBQ is closed until further notice after it’s owner was arrested under larceny and prostitution charges
– Johnny Ray Bousselot of Mount Holly has developed a couple of barbecue – Bourbon Peach and 10 Bones Signature – that has been picked up by a few outlets locally in Charlotte
– The Great NC BBQ Map takes a trip to the printers; maps ship next week
– Marie, Let’s Eat visits The Greater Good BBQ location in Buckhead
– Lexington #1 is featured on this slideshow of photos from BBQ Paradise 3, which aired last night at 9
– The “Smokin’ in the Valley” Festival is this weekend in Maggie Valley
– A fairly long read, entitled How Barbecue Has Become New York City’s Most Addictive Smoking Habit, yields this infographic
– According to Sam Jones, the “not so popular side of BBQ”
The not so popular side of BBQ! #skylightinnbbq #pitdigging http://t.co/6sdK4YlQDi
— Sam Jones (@skylightinn) July 21, 2014
Linkdown: 7/16/14
– Our State’s latest in the barbecue profile series Carolina ‘Cue is Hursey’s Bar-B-Q in Burlington (our review here)
Hursey’s Bar-B-Q in Burlington has a tale like this to tell. In the mid-’40s, patriarch Sylvester Hursey and a good friend were engaged in a night of bacchanalian revelry — they had a little party that got out of hand — and at some point it seemed like a good idea to find a pig and cook it, so that’s what they did. I imagine them in the still heat of a Carolina summer’s night, climbing over a splintered wooden fence and into the pigpen. The moonlight broke through the limbs of the giant oak and shone on the chosen pig, as big as any pig there ever was, and the two of them wrestled with it into the night, coming this close to losing their own lives in the process, but finally emerging victorious. They had their pig, and then they dragged it halfway across Alamance County and fired up the pit and cooked it.
– Indy Week reviews Ed Mitchell’s Que, saying it “lives up to the hype”
– Durham restaurant Piedmont is hosting a whole hog barbecue dinner next Thursday (h/t bbqboard)
– Eater guide to where to eat barbecue around Atlanta
– Also, some Eater photos from Heirloom Market on a Wednesday at 11:35am
– The latest update on The Great NC BBQ Map states that the maps will mail out the week of 7/28-8/1 to all Kickstarter backers; also, they have a new logo
New logo reveal, designed by @goodsouthfolks | Getting started on the stamping & the tubes are easier than we thought pic.twitter.com/1C15g1SEru
— Amanda Aileen (@ncbbqmap)
– Really hate that I missed the first SC-TX BBQ Invitational because it sounds like it was legendary; no seriously it looked epic
Rodney Scott we love you and your pulled pork, but we must concede the star of yesterday’s SC-TX BBQ Invitational was clearly John Lewis of Austin, Texas’ La Barbecue. The man’s beef brisket was O-face-inducingly good (I saw more than one pair of eyes roll back into eaters’ heads). And the pit master’s presence was all thanks to the members of Charleston Brown Water Society (CBWS), whose Holy City Brewing hoedown came off smokingly well, despite intermittent rain threats.
Linkdown: 6/18/14
– A review of the Mighty Quinn’s in Clifton, NJ
– Hogs for the Cause out of New Orleans has added an event in Charleston dubbed Holy City Hogs
– Ed Mitchell’s barbecue made an impression on Zagat from the Big Apple BBQ a few weeks back (via)
Whole hog from pitmaster Ed Mitchell
North Carolina-based pitmaster Ed Mitchell recently opened Durham restaurant Que with his son Ryan. At this weekend’s event he prepared whole hog which was tossed in the classic North Carolina vinegar-based sauce, resulting in some of the most interesting and complex flavors we tasted.
– New location, new management for Hog Day, this year in Efland
– Three Salisbury men have created Little E Sauces and Marinades, a line of rubs, marinades, and sauces that has been picked up by Food Lion
– A Beer Pilgrim’s review of 12 Bones Smokehouse in Asheville
– Marie, Let’s Eat! visits Lovie’s BBQ in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta, that, while isn’t a Lexington-style joint, has a thin vinegar sauce somewhat reminiscent of a Lexington dip
There is only one sauce available, and it’s as close to a Lexington-style thin vinegar-tomato mix as you’re likely to find in Atlanta. I don’t know that it went all that well with the chicken, but the pork just loved it.
– The Great NC BBQ Map should be shipping out for customers to receive maps by the end of July, and the final tally of barbecue restaurants is kind of mind-blowing
How many restaurants ended up on the map? Guess. We don’t think you’ll believe the number….
FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTY FOUR!!!!
Yes, you read that right. 434. And another 42 barbecue festivals and cook-offs! So get your bellies ready.