Kathleen Purvis is looking forward to Noble Smoke when it opens in a few months

I wrapped up 2018 by looking forward to the Charlotte food spots coming up in 2019. Grab a fork and get ready. https://t.co/bcTqdPXO8Y

— Kathleen Purvis (@kathleenpurvis) December 26, 2018

Mac’s Speed Shop opening a store in Wilmington was the #2 food story for the Wilmington Business Journal in 2018

The Improper Pig opened a second store in Fort Mill just after the new year after unexpectedly finding a 100+ year original advertising mural during renovations

Daniel Vaughn’s best Texas barbecue bites from joints outside of the TMBBQ Top 50

.@bbqsnob eats and writes about a lot of top-notch Texas barbecue—it’s literally his job. Check out his favorite bites of 2018, from pork belly burnt ends in Bryan to smoked oxtails in Houston. https://t.co/FnmugEJuil

— Texas Monthly (@TexasMonthly) January 3, 2019

Thrillist’s list of best barbecue joints in Kansas City

Speaking of Kansas City, I was recently pointed to a new-to-me barbecue blog by BBQ Tourist called Joe’s Barbecue Quest who recently published a review of Jones Bar-B-Que

More Sweet Lew’s coverage, this time from new alt-weekly upstart QC Nerve

Lewis Donald is so proud of the work he's doing in the kitchen at @sweetlewsbbq in the Belmont neighborhood that he wants customers to come back and watch him do it. @CourtneyMiho took him up on that for this week's food feature: https://t.co/FNusiwus6Z

— Queen City Nerve (@queencitynerve) January 3, 2019

Justin Timberlake joins the ranks of Obama, Hillary, and Bill Murray as patrons of Midwood Smokehouse while in Charlotte. His reported order was burnt ends, collards and beans

In 2019, why not make the resolution to subscribe to @thesmokesheet? https://t.co/x9CGTjAfMP

— Barbecue Bros (@BarbecueBros) January 2, 2019