It’s probably not just us. I bet every food hobbyist will occasionally have a meal where the quality of the food will get overshadowed by the situation that surrounded it. Continue reading “Chester’s Barbeque, Columbus GA”
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Ed’s Bar-B-Que & Country Cooking, Phenix City AL
For the third stop on our tour, we drove on to Phenix City and found a restaurant in a very unusual place. Ed’s is a meat-and-three cafeteria surrounded by old warehouses and storage units, body shops and a marine place that sells and repairs speedboats. A building nearby has a long-broken vending machine out front that once dispensed live bait. I wouldn’t have guessed that such a good restaurant would set up in an industrial zone like this. Continue reading “Ed’s Bar-B-Que & Country Cooking, Phenix City AL”
Byron’s Smokehouse, Auburn AL
When we visited Auburn in 2014, one question that jumped out as we planned the trip was which of the two well-known barbecue places we would visit. We went with Price’s, in part because of its terrific campus-friendly location, which, in the end, doomed the restaurant as developers bulldoze everything within walking distance of the classroom buildings in favor of mixed-use places. Price’s closed for the final time about a week after our visit, which is a real shame. Continue reading “Byron’s Smokehouse, Auburn AL”
Roger’s Bar-B-Que, LaGrange GA
Eagle-eyed readers might have spotted that, while we’ve always championed Georgia barbecue, we certainly have spotlighted a little more of it than usual this year. Between March and May, we made four day trips to sample as many new-to-us places as we realistically could before moving away. I’ve always been hopeful of finding something new and amazing, and I’ve always been hopeful that other bloggers and hobbyists will both follow up on some of these places, and discover more. Continue reading “Roger’s Bar-B-Que, LaGrange GA”
Bluegrass Barbeque, Moody AL
The final stop on our Memphis trip was a fairly new barbecue place on the outskirts of Birmingham. It simply isn’t right to go through Alabama and not try some barbecue, you know? Continue reading “Bluegrass Barbeque, Moody AL”
Tops Bar-B-Q, Memphis TN
Because every so often I am a complete dingbat (or more often than that, or worse), my plans go completely awry. After spending hours looking over the Memphis Que blog, I picked Moma’s BBQ in Bartlett as the third stop on our barbecue day. But then we spent hours shopping in Cooper-Young, putting us late to Interstate, and then we decided to drive over the gorgeous I-40 and I-55 bridges into Arkansas and back to see those – I do so love big bridges – and then we went to Shangri-La Records and were there forever (not difficult) and then we went to Comic Cellar and were there for a while, and when we finally made it to Moma’s, they’d closed, because they’re one of these aggravating businesses that figure people are done eating barbecue at two. Continue reading “Tops Bar-B-Q, Memphis TN”
Jim Neely’s Interstate Bar-B-Q, Memphis TN (take two)
When Marie and I first visited Memphis together in 2010, we only made one trip to a barbecue restaurant. It being Sunday, many of the heavy-hitters were not open, but Jim Neely’s Interstate was, and we had a pretty good meal there. Continue reading “Jim Neely’s Interstate Bar-B-Q, Memphis TN (take two)”
Marie, Let's Eat! 