The yankees are coming, the yankees are coming. But this time they are here to spread joy and pork. This weekend the Carolina Pork Experiment, a stop on the circuit of the Brooklyn Brewery-sponsored The Food Experiments, will be held in Durham. The event is a chance for amateur cooks to show off your porcine [...]
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Continuing this week’s inadvertent beer theme, I just learned of a new event taking place on Sundays in downtown Durham. Fullsteam Brewery, purveyors of hickory-smoked Hogwash and a wide variety of other southern agriculture-focused “plow to pint” offerings, pairs up with Backyard BBQ Pit, a wood pit barbecue joint that cooks up the best ‘cue in Durham. Each Sunday [...]
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4125 Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard, Durham, NC 919.401.1979 Website Hours: Mon-Thu 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Fri-Sat 11 a.m. to 12:30 a.m. BBQ Jew’s Grade: C- Porky Says: “Nobody loves their Q but my mother, and she could be jivin’ too.” Singing the Low Down, So-So Barbecue Blues If you’ve been reading this site for more than a [...]
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3921 Fayetteville Street, Durham, NC 919.544.1587 Website Hours: Uh, I forgot to write ‘em down, I’ll find out soon… BBQ Jew’s Grade: C Porky Says: “Man shall not dine on pork alone (at least not here).” Man Does Not Live by Bread Alone While most barbecue joints use their marquee signs to boast or advertise weekly [...]
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An easy to read post for Friday morning: four belated pictures from Spring barbecue celebrations, the first two from the Cuegrass event at The Pit in Raleigh and the second set at customer appreciation day at the Backyard BBQ Pit #1 in Durham.
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Angier & Driver Streets, Durham, NC 919.201.7676 Website Hours: Usually Thu-Sat 11:30 a.m.. to 3:00 p.m. (or until sold out) BBQ Jew’s Grade: B+ Porky Says: “This pork on wheels is the real deal.” Drive-Thru BBQ The name Mama Jean’s Bar-B-Q Shack is, in fact, a misnomer. This joint is no shack. Far from it, as this [...]
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Over the weekend The Rib Rabbi and I, along with our accomplice Nate “Ol’ Hickory” O’Keefe, volunteered at a barbecue-themed fundraising event. More on the event soon, but that’s a separate post. While at the event, we “discovered” a local BBQ joint we’d never heard of: Mama Jean’s Bar-B-Que Shack (as is common with barbecue joints, alternate spellings [...]
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Sometimes bad luck leads to good news. After hearing that the recent salmonella outbreak at Bullock’s Bar-B-Cue had put a serious dent in their business, despite the fact that the outbreak may not have been Bullock’s fault, area chefs have rallied behind the venerable Durham institution. Join local chefs at Bullock’s for lunch at high noon today to [...]
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It’s been a rough few weeks for NC barbecue lovers (and friends). Between the rash of closings, fires and even a proprietor’s death, it appeared things had hit rock bottom for NC barbecue restaurants. But now there’s more. Bullock’s Bar B Cue in Durham is being investigated for a salmonella outbreak, according to an article in the [...]
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