4618 Lee Street, Ayden, NC 252.746.4113 No Website Hours: Mon-Sat 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. BBQ Jew’s Grade: A+ Porky Says: “Capitol Q indeed, Jones’ place lives up to the hype.” Do A Few Things But Do Them Well The Skylight Inn is not the type of restaurant that tries to be everything to everyone. Far from [...]
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511 Highway 17 North, Holly Ridge, NC 910.329.1708 Website Hours: Tu-Th & Su 6:30 a.m.-8 p.m.; Fr-Sa 6:30 a.m.-9 p.m. BBQ Jew’s Grade: B- Porky Says: “Decent Beach-B-Q at last.” Palatable Barbecue Near the Beach? Finally! Earlier this summer I took a family vacation to Topsail Beach. Unsurprisingly, I dragged my wife and kids to a barbecue restaurant on [...]
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As summer beckons yet again, it’s the perfect time to read this article from Garden & Gun magazine, in case you missed it last year when it was published. It’s one of the best written articles I’ve seen in terms of capturing the spirit of NC’s barbecue culture, and the accompanying photo gallery is outstanding. [...]
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213 W. Main Street, Gibsonville, NC 336.449.6347 Website Hours: Mon-Tue, Thu-Fri 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Wed 6 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.; Sat 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. BBQ Jew’s Grade: D- Porky Says: ”All pork with no taste makes Jack’s a dull ‘cue.” Can’t We Do Better? At this risk of sounding overly dramatic or harsh, Jack’s BBQ [...]
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A tip of the snout to John Shelton Reed, who alerted me to a relative newcomer to the Eastern NC barbecue scene: Jason Grill & BBQ, a traditional wood-burning shack of a barbecue joint that looks like it is from another era. John has already agreed to give me a full report and pictures when [...]
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2816 Cheek Road, Durham, NC 919.530.1839 No Website Hours: Mon-Fri 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. BBQ Jew’s Grade: C Porky Says: “Noah’s Temple didn’t make me a believer.” “Worth Your Time to Find” I’m embarassed to admit that I first heard of Byrd’s Barbecue fewer than 6 months ago. Byrd’s–with the motto “Worth Your Time to Find” [...]
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729 Highway 66 South, Kernersville, NC 336.993.5045 Website Hours: Mon-Sat 11 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. BBQ Jew’s Grade: C+ Porky Says: ”Polly has an identity crisis.” Pollyanna With a great name like Prissy Polly’s, which made it into my barbecue joint name hall of fame, it’s tempting to be Pollyannaish about the quality of the [...]
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I recently read Smokestack Lightning and strongly recommend you drop whatever you are doing to buy a copy right now. Although this book only includes one chapter on North Carolina barbecue (and it is a chapter shared with–gasp–South Carolina), it is one of the best books on barbecue ever written. Smokestack Lightning–the title taken from the classic Howlin’ Wolf [...]
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“People who would put ketchup in the sauce they feed to innocent children are capable of most anything… [W]e, the Eastern North Carolina purveyors of pure barbecue, will not be roadkill for our western kin.” – Former Raleigh News & Observer columnist Dennis Rogers reflecting on a legislative proposal to make Lexington’s Barbecue Festival the [...]
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