BBQ Joints

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Any thoughts on a BBQ food? Specifically pulled pork BBQ sandwiches, pulled BBQ pork, roasted chicken, BBQ ribs, slaw, corn on the cob, watermelon, and the likes.

I love this type of food it's simple, fun, and really tasty.


Any BBQ lovers?
 
Going to Alabama is going back in time for me (hey, I'm a Vols fan) but the best BBQ has to be Dream Land BBQ in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

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Dreamland is eminently known for bar-b-que ribs. The original Dreamland Café is located about two miles from the intersection of Hwy 82 and Interstate 59 just south of Tuscaloosa in an area known as Jerusalem Heights. In the years since Mr. John "Big Daddy" Bishop first opened his store, little has changed.

The roads have been paved much the same as they were back in 1958. The décor inside is warm and dark. The dining room is small with a big bar, a few tables, booths, and a pot bellied stove. Beer signs hang from the oak beams and Christmas lights hang from the walls all year 'round. It isn't fancy, but then again the ribs are the main attraction anyway.

The atmosphere is casual-down home. You may rub elbows with somebody famous while you sit at the bar; and people come from all over to enjoy the ribs. The point is that it doesn't matter who you are, at Dreamland everybody is special and everybody is there for the same reason-the ribs. The legendary ribs, service and atmosphere are also available in our other locations. In addition to the legendary ribs and sauce, the menu has been expanded to include such items as: baked beans, potato salad, coleslaw, banana pudding, salads, pork sandwiches and bar-b-que chicken.

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I'm a 100% dyed-in-the-wool Yankee, but I love southern BBQ. Pulled Pork and Dry Rubbed Ribs are my favorites. Maryland has a few good BBQ joints. The Pig Out in Deal, MD is one of my favorites. Pit Beef is another delicacy around here. Any Tom, Dick or Harry can cut a 55 gallon drum in half, fill it up with charcoal and cover it with a screen and be in the pit beef business.
 
Andrew - do you really have over 13,000 posts?! Dude, do you know how much bandwidth you take up? :lol:

:lol: They actually deleted around 2,000 posts of mine during the last bandwidth purge.

One of these days I'll run out of things to say and will end it like Forrest Gump: "That's all I have to say about that." :D
 
Where the south lacks in actually offering genuine pizza they make up for such a heinous sin through their exceptional barbecue.

:)
 
Dickey's which is a chain in Dallas (and claims to be the fastest growing bbq brand in America) is pretty good, and convenient. If you are down Austin way in the Texas Hill Country, check out the Salt Lick in Driftwood, Texas. I don't recall being blown away when my older brother and his wife took our mother and I there, but it has a considerable reputation.
 
Saturday I had a rack of ribs at The Rendezvous in Memphis, TN.

Best ribs around. :)

One positive aspect of living in the mid-south is an abundance of good places to eat BBQ - unlike those unfortunate enough to live in Texas, The North, or, well, anywhere else outside of the mid-south.:D
 
Well now, you sure want to hear this from a 300 plus lb. guy?
This list could go a long time.

This hurts me as a Texan to admit it but some of the greatest BBQ I ever had was traveling the back roads of Oklahoma where you would go in little roadside shacks and just savor every bite as you smell the smoke and talk to they guy who actually cooked the food and wrote every misspelled word on the menu. And over around Shawnee Oklahoma they did some great stuff with pig. My mouth waters just thinking about it.
But I don't remember the names of the places. I used to cover the state of Oklahoma selling oilfield chemicals and I hit a lot of shacks that would beat any chain or big city joint.

Now if you are ever in the TX hill country...as someone said before the Saltlick in Driftwood is great and you have a chance of watching Sandra Bullock or some "famous" person eat. Whenever someone famous comes to Austin it seems they end up getting taken to the Saltlick. It is one of those rare places that is as delicious as it is trendy.

For us non famous types you want to go to Llano TX to Cooper's.
http://www.coopersbbq.com/
You will love the food plus you will be at big long tables of Bikers and cowboys, cedar choppers and hunters and it is a social experience you won't forget.

There is a place that is NOT great. Average at best but everyone I know who drives through Brownwood TX has eaten at Underwoods. It is almost a Texas rite of passage. It seems like something everyone does like lemmings.

Here in my little town I would say just hit the chain Rudy's because the brisket is smoked well and besides just to go in an hearing the manager Doug laugh is worth the price of the meal. They do use a very good German sausage and I know people that buy their secret recipe cream corn in buckets and take it home.
I have some secret places here but you have to contact me and I will take you. So many places, so little time and so few inches left in my belts.

Why am I craving meat and cobbler right now?
 
Saturday I had a rack of ribs at The Rendezvous in Memphis, TN.

Best ribs around. :)

:up: Actually, growing up in the North, that was the first place I ever had dry ribs.

One positive aspect of living in the mid-south is an abundance of good places to eat BBQ - unlike those unfortunate enough to live in Texas, The North, or, well, anywhere else outside of the mid-south.:D

Have you been to (m)any of the other BBQ places in Memphis?
 
Yes - most of them. I live ~90 miles from Memphis, and have lived in Memphis, have family that lives or did live in Memphis, sometimes shop or do business in Memphis, etc....so I've ate most everywhere in Memphis. Even out here where I live, we have several area restaurants that do very good BBQ. I could eat a top-quality BBQ each day of the week at a different restaurant. :)

Corkys, Gridleys, Neelys....there's one place I'm thinking of now, can't remember the name of it, that is better than all of those.....I'll have to call my sister and ask the name.
 
Yes - most of them. I live ~90 miles from Memphis, and have lived in Memphis, have family that lives or did live in Memphis, sometimes shop or do business in Memphis, etc....so I've ate most everywhere in Memphis. Even out here where I live, we have several area restaurants that do very good BBQ. I could eat a top-quality BBQ each day of the week at a different restaurant. :)

Corkys, Gridleys, Neelys....there's one place I'm thinking of now, can't remember the name of it, that is better than all of those.....I'll have to call my sister and ask the name.

The BBQ Shop, perhaps? It's definitely my favorite out of the places I've been to, including Corky's. Central BBQ and Topps are good as well, but still just not quite at the level of "the shop" In my humble opinion. :cool:
 
The BBQ Shop, perhaps? It's definitely my favorite out of the places I've been to, including Corky's. Central BBQ and Topps are good as well, but still just not quite at the level of "the shop" In my humble opinion. :cool:


I figured it out - Germantown Commisary.

Good ribs, good BBQ.....there was a side dish that was great there, and I can't remember what it was.

http://commissarybbq.com/
 
Richard, you've hit the nail on the head.

For example, Tribby, Oklahoma serves up a great plate of beef ribs with beans/slaw and fries for $4.95 every Friday. Tribby is just a few miles outside of "metropolitan" Macomb (population, 61) and Sandmann's Cafe is the only operating building in the "town". But wow, some great ribs...
 
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heres a few that ive eaten at, and recommend:

(these are near austin)

kreus market in lockhart.....prolly the best one in the state

meyers smokehouse in elgin

city market in luling

(texas hill country)

opas in fritz-town (fredericksburg)

coopers in junction......it was ok, the only good thing about junction is doin the posted speed limit of 80 to el paso

...and lastly cotton eyed joes in robstown....near corpus

all the places listed above sell REAL barb que (beef)

theres a place in shiner, where they make my bock, but, i cant remember the place, but it was good too
 
Richard, what you're thinking of around Shawnee was Van's Pig Stand. I went to school at OBU there and Van's was an institution.

Boy, I'm getting hungry...
 
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