1) Building must be run down

2) Furniture must be ole

3) Must be named after owner or founding family (not chain owner, owner of that one restaurant)

6/28/2008 3:11:00 PM

agreed

ole time passes on the name rule, but their veggies are crap

bbq/hushpuppies/tea are ace though

6/28/2008 3:11:53 PM

^

[Edited on June 28, 2008 at 3:13 PM. Reason : their okra's too dry]

6/28/2008 3:13:17 PM

must not be in NYC

I work for a place that does a reasonable facsimile but the pit master is a New York asshole that never wants to talk shop with me

he says that making eastern carolina sauce is "fucking easy... its just vinegar and crushed red pepper and shit"

fuck that guy

6/28/2008 4:00:14 PM

^the sauce is relatively easy

the tough part is cooking the meat so that everything tastes right

6/28/2008 4:05:19 PM

u gotta start cooking at like 1 am to get good bbq ready by lunch

6/28/2008 4:22:11 PM

there has to be at least FIVE 'signature' sauces for my standards.

6/28/2008 4:24:15 PM

they use electric smokers and wood pellets

6/28/2008 4:25:12 PM

Any place that has more than one kind of bbq sauce has no faith in their sauce.

Allowances can be made for one each of pork/chicken/hot sauces.

6/28/2008 4:27:37 PM

this joint has "Carolina BBQ" and "Original BBQ"

which is a bullshit naming convention cause carolina bbq sauce IS the original

6/28/2008 4:30:18 PM

you forgot good hushpuppies

6/28/2008 4:31:38 PM

must be pit cooked over hardwood coals

6/28/2008 4:32:01 PM

6/28/2008 4:33:10 PM

get that fucking red sauce off that Q

6/28/2008 4:34:22 PM

i am in SC apparently they do not have vinegar based.

6/28/2008 4:35:07 PM

^^ the sauce is the best looking part of it, but someone fucked up and but some grass on bbq, get that shit off

^ lucky guy

[Edited on June 28, 2008 at 4:35 PM. Reason : d]

6/28/2008 4:35:11 PM

I found a really good homemade barbecue recipe once. I need to dig it up. basically you smoke the shit out of it then throw it in a crock-pot for like half a day. and yeah, the sauce is really easy

6/28/2008 4:35:28 PM

i had a bbq sandwich from stonewall's this morning.


it was rather tasty

6/28/2008 4:36:36 PM

must have an old black guy cooking

6/28/2008 4:38:28 PM

^

6/28/2008 4:39:13 PM

I want some ribs for dinner

6/28/2008 4:43:23 PM

the bbq snobs of TWW must approve

6/28/2008 4:45:01 PM

If the tea isn't so sweet that your teeth rot immediately...the BBQ probably won't be any good

They must also serve brunswick stew

6/28/2008 4:47:18 PM

i like Smithfield's BBQ plate...

I also love Smokey Bonez(place here in Greensboro)

6/28/2008 4:49:09 PM

they have a stiky fingers in Charleston but i walked right past it to some place with no paint on the building and just a pig with a neon light around it for a sign

6/28/2008 4:51:43 PM

i ate at a sticky fingers down in wilmington. pretty good for a chain serving that red kind of bbq.

6/28/2008 4:53:52 PM

NO REGARD TO SANITATION QUALIFICATIONS


BLACK FAMILY RUNS IT


NOT OPEN ON SUNDAY

6/28/2008 4:54:52 PM

those are all good

knightdale bbq has sucked since they moved to a clean building

6/28/2008 4:55:19 PM

must have brunswick stew that's THICK

6/28/2008 4:57:12 PM

isnt brunswick implied?

6/28/2008 4:57:50 PM

you'd be surprised

6/28/2008 4:58:17 PM

well then, no brunswick, no good

6/28/2008 4:59:27 PM

folks don't know it, but the majority of bbq places get their brunswick stew from a can




/stir the pot

6/28/2008 5:00:10 PM

not true

not for good bbq

[Edited on June 28, 2008 at 5:00 PM. Reason : as]

6/28/2008 5:00:36 PM

said majority, not all

6/28/2008 5:00:50 PM

requirements

stew that is home made ... however ... if it's not homemade, then bad bbq

6/28/2008 5:02:16 PM

anyone been to the barbecue lodge on capital?

http://triangle.citysearch.com/review/6181126

6/28/2008 5:17:51 PM

only 2 places i've had in raleigh is coopers and cookout...cookout wins easy

6/28/2008 5:18:45 PM

hell, my favorite bbq place doesn't even serve brunswick stew. if the bbq is really good you shouldn't need anything other than slaw, tater salad, and cornbread.

[Edited on June 28, 2008 at 5:19 PM. Reason : i'd imagine cookout's bbq is warmed up stuff from a tub]

6/28/2008 5:19:03 PM

its really good....hits the spot everytime

6/28/2008 5:20:24 PM

you jagoffs don't want bbq

you want a brunswick stew place

just wait until the Methodist church whips up a huge batch in the fall and buy a quart

6/28/2008 5:23:28 PM

lol @ jagoffs

6/28/2008 5:25:59 PM

Even though it's a chain, Smithfield's is the SHITTTTTTTT!! Can't beat their BBQ, slaw, veggies, etc. Their sweet tea is bangin' too! Emmmmm! Got me cravin' some now!!!

And actually there's a place in my hometown of Lillington (right off the Cape Fear River) called Howard's BBQ (-n- Seafood), and it's INCREDIBLE!!!!! The food is amazing. Even their hamburger steak (which is grilled on a grill and not fried in a pan) with grilled onions is soooo delicious!!



[Edited on June 28, 2008 at 5:49 PM. Reason : .]

6/28/2008 5:29:21 PM

bbq lodge is wildly inconsistent, but can be good

dnl doesn't know a goddamn thing about bbq

6/28/2008 5:31:20 PM

a bbq sammich would prolly make my hangover go away with a quickness



tequila ftl

[Edited on June 28, 2008 at 5:38 PM. Reason : ^you are the one that thinks coopers is good...unless they suck at LUNCH or something]

6/28/2008 5:37:59 PM

nvm

[Edited on June 28, 2008 at 5:42 PM. Reason : someone else]

6/28/2008 5:42:43 PM

no, i'm not the one

i'm one of the thousands

the place is fucking packed whenever i go there

and they've been open since 1938

6/28/2008 5:43:45 PM

thousands of people can't can be wrong

[Edited on June 28, 2008 at 5:47 PM. Reason : eg. wilber's in goldsboro]

6/28/2008 5:46:50 PM

best bbq places I've been:

NC:
1) Wilbers
2) BBQ and Ribs Co (RIP)
3) Stephensons

out of state
GA Pig: between savannah and florida line

6/28/2008 5:46:53 PM

^^ STFU

6/28/2008 5:48:36 PM