# Best Barbecue Near You? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 13, 2020, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-barbecue-near-you/847869 "2020-02-13T11:57:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-barbecue-near-you/847869/81 "2020-02-17T23:39:14Z")
From what I’ve seen of it on TV, it ain’t BBQ, no matter what Flay says. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-barbecue-near-you/847869/82 "2020-02-17T23:56:38Z")
> [@FlikTheBlue](#): > > I’m surprised no one has mentioned the Salt Lick in Driftwood, TX yet. No less an authority than Bobby Flay has declared it the best barbecue he’s ever eaten. Having been there multiple times myself, I agree with him. I trust Bobby Flay’s opinion on BBQ about as far as I can throw the moon. Now if a little old Southern lady says it’s good BBQ, I’ll listen to her. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2020, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-barbecue-near-you/847869/83 "2020-02-18T00:21:19Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > Eastern NC BBQ is best , made from pork. No need to read the list. Around 10 years ago a local place, Clyde Coopers, brought their BBQ to U2 but at the time they only took cash so they had to round up cash to pay the tab. They just recently started taking credit/debit cards , they opened in 1938. This. I’m in Georgia, but whenever we go to the Outer Banks, we made a point of stopping for dinner at Wilber’s in Goldsboro (alas, now closed). My father, who grew up in Rocky Mount, grew up eating Parker’s Barbecue, in Wilson. We’ll have to go a bit out of the way to get to Wilson or Greenville, but Parker’s is worth the trip. Barbecue is one of the last truly regional foods in American cuisine - Georgia barbecue is not the same as Eastern North Carolina 'cue, which is different from Western North Carolina style, or Memphis, or Lowcountry South Carolina mustard-based barbecue. (I won’t even get into Texas or Kansas, where they think “barbecue” is a verb - which they misspell as “barbeque”, anyway - and can be done to cows. Illiterate barbarians.) When I eat barbecue in Atlanta, which is not often, I go to Anna’s - a little old-fashioned fish camp-style restaurant in Kirkwood, with uneven floors and faded calendars on the wall. It’s pretty good, for Georgia 'cue. Actually, scratch that - it’s damn good. But it’s not Eastern NC barbecue. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2020, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-barbecue-near-you/847869/84 "2020-02-18T01:07:59Z")
Western North Carolina BBQ \> Texas BBQ \> Eastern North Carolina BBQ \> South Carolina BBQ \> Santa Maria Style BBQ \> Kansas City BBQ \> Memphis BBQ \> Chain BBQ “Your BBQ” can be slotted in as need be. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-barbecue-near-you/847869.md?page=4)