Pat’s BBQ on West Commonwealth Avenue in Salt Lake City has been making a case that Utah deserves a serious BBQ reputation since Pat Hughes opened it with a conviction that low-and-slow smoked meat is not a regional specialty but a universal truth. It appeared in Season 5, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, […]
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Barbecue, Restaurants, Salt Lake City, Season 5, UtahThe Talanco family has been cooking BBQ in South Texas for four generations, and Texas Pride Barbecue in Adkins is the current expression of that tradition. The restaurant sits on East Loop 1604 about 20 miles southeast of San Antonio, and San Antonio locals have been making that drive for decades. Texas Pride appeared in
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Barbecue, Restaurants, Season 3, TexasSlim’s Last Chance Chili Shack and Watering Hole on First Avenue South in Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood has been serving house-made chili, BBQ, and the kind of unpretentious bar food that earns a neighborhood reputation well before any camera shows up. It appeared in Season 6, Episode 4 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “A Burger, a
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Barbecue, Restaurants, Season 6, Seattle, WashingtonAt the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, a traveling salesman named Abe Doumar noticed an ice cream vendor about to turn away customers because he had run out of paper dishes. A nearby vendor was selling waffles. Doumar bought a waffle, rolled it into a cone, added ice cream, and changed the way America ate
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Barbecue, Restaurants, Season 4, VirginiaJamie’s Broadway Grille on Broadway in Sacramento has been serving BBQ and American grill food to the Oak Park and Midtown neighborhoods since owner Jamie Butturff opened it as a neighborhood restaurant committed to quality sourcing and scratch cooking. It appeared in Season 6, Episode 1 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Funky Joints,” which aired
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Barbecue, Califonia, Restaurants, Sacramento, Season 6Galewood Cook Shack appeared in Season 2, Episode 11 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Off the Hook Specials,” aired January 20, 2008 — as a Chicago BBQ and food truck operation that earned its DDD segment with straightforward, no-frills smoked meat. The operation has since closed. Quick Facts Restaurant: Galewood Cook ShackCity: Chicago, IllinoisCuisine:
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Barbecue, Chicago, Illinois, Restaurants, Season 2Brad Orrison was dumpster diving in Oxford, Mississippi when he had the idea. Knee deep in discarded hardwood flooring, he decided he was going to build himself a BBQ joint out of all the junk he’d collected. He moved back to Ocean Springs, enlisted his sister Brooke and his brother Brett, and hammered and nailed
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Barbecue, Mississippi, Restaurants, Season 3Pete and Jenny Breen moved to New Orleans and took to BBQ the way transplants to the city tend to take to whatever they fall in love with: completely. They opened The Joint in 2004 on Poland Avenue in the Bywater District and built a reputation that put them on Bon Appétit and Zagat top
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Barbecue, Louisiana, New Orleans, Restaurants, Season 3In 1987, Gus Glava gave his daughter Donna and son-in-law Bob a pit beef stand as a wedding gift. It was a 12-by-15-foot shack in a parking lot on the east side of Baltimore, and Bob loved to cook, so the logic held. What Gus could not have predicted is that the wedding gift would
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Baltimore, Barbecue, Maryland, Restaurants, Season 3Marlowe’s Ribs sits on Elvis Presley Boulevard in Memphis, which means it occupies a stretch of road that carries the weight of the city’s most famous son. The restaurant has been a neighborhood institution for years, serving Memphis-style ribs and BBQ to locals and the Graceland tourist crowd alike, with the quality earning a loyal
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