Rodney Muirhead grew up in Texas, moved to Portland, and got tired of not being able to find Texas-style BBQ. In 2006 he opened Podnah’s Pit Barbecue on NE Killingsworth and started smoking brisket, ribs, and sausage over oak and pecan the way he grew up eating it. Portland took notice immediately. Podnah’s appeared in […]
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Barbecue, Oregon, Portland, Restaurants, Season 7Wilson’s Holy Smoke BBQ appeared in Season 5, Episode 10 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “BBQ and More,” which aired February 9, 2009, as a Fairfield, Connecticut BBQ operation bringing serious pit-smoked barbecue to a state more known for its pizza and seafood traditions than its BBQ. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts
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Barbecue, Connecticut, Restaurants, Season 5Gorilla Barbeque operates from a tiny yellow shack in a parking lot on Highway 1 in Pacifica, with the Pacific Ocean visible in the distance and a smoker that has been running since 2003. The setup is as minimal as BBQ gets: a shack, a smoker, picnic tables, and some of the best ribs on
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Barbecue, Califonia, Restaurants, Season 5Green Mesquite on Barton Springs Road in Austin has been feeding the Zilker Park crowd since 1988, combining Texas BBQ and Tex-Mex in an outdoor-heavy setting that captures what eating in Austin on a good day actually feels like. It appeared in Season 5, Episode 10 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “BBQ and More,” which
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Austin, Barbecue, Restaurants, Season 5, TexasPat’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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