Boone’s Bar-B-Que Kitchen

Combo from Boone’s Bar-B-Que Kitchen

Midwood Smokehouse

We initially started this blog in order to find the best barbecue restaurant in Charlotte. While we feel pretty comfortable with our current rankings on the big board having visited 40+ restaurants, what more logical next step than to explore the best meats and dishes in the greater Charlotte area? This is the first in our series. Click here to find the other posts.

We naturally start with pork, which in North Carolina is synonymous with the word “barbecue”. Because Charlotte is a city of transplants and “other people’s barbecue”, you don’t find much barbecue that you might expect of the region (that is, Lexington-style) and you actually find far more eastern-style restaurants. In fact, two of the three below serve eastern-style barbecue (with Boone’s serving his own family’s style recipe that doesn’t easily  classify in Lexington or eastern).

1. Boone’s Bar-B-Que Kitchen
2. Midwood Smokehouse (Original location; Ballantyne location)
3. Bill Spoon’s Barbecue

Honorable Mention: The Smoke Pit (Concord)

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