Pigstock BBQ Competition and Bluegrass Festival is this upcoming weekend at Shooting Star Horse Farm in Greensboro
Butts-N-Such opened last weekend in the former A&G Barbecue & Chicken in Carolina Beach
Jon G’s featured in QC Exclusive
Holiday pre-orders are live
Mustard-sauce barbecue and hash and rice are two iconic Midlands SC dishes
The Fox brothers of Fox Bros Bar-B-Q in Atlanta are originally from the Houston area
Gift guides are coming
As of Monday, Robert Moss has officially launched his new digital publication Southeastern Dispatch, a “fresh look at food & drink in the Carolinas.” He has enlisted food journalists from both North and South Carolina, and so far posts have covered the Triangle and Charleston, with surely more cities and regions to be covered soon. I briefly spoke with him about this at Jon G’s Barbecue last month and have been intrigued ever since. I am curious what this mean’s for his weekly Cue Sheet barbecue newsletter, which took a brief hiatus but returned this week post launch.
Read more at SoutheasternDispatch.com.
Jon G’s Barbecue, Lawrence Barbecue, and Prime Barbecue all make this list from Southern Living
For his new Southeastern Dispatch, Moss also examines what happened to Raleigh’s barbecue boom?
Indian Trail’s 100 Main Beef and Barbecue is now both a barbecue restaurant and a country store
Barvecue, the wood-smoked plan-based barbecue company out of Cornelius, is rolling out to 12 colleges and universities and just signed a deal with Sprouts Farmers Market
A&G’s Barbecue & Chicken in Carolina Beach to close this week after 33 years in business as owner Angela Stainaker retires; the restaurant will be taken over by Tammy and John Sharpe, who will reopen the location as Butts ‘n’ Such
The Washington Post is also featuring vegan barbecue
The Smoke Sheet interviewed Daniel Vaughn in last week’s issue
Now that’s a #woodpilewednesday
– Sad news as Midwood Smokeshack has closed in Matthews. However, there is some good news in that the employees will keep their jobs at other Midwood Smokehouse locations and FS Food Groupd will be looking to build a full service Midwood Smokehouse in the Matthews area at some point.
– D.G. Martin’s list of last minute book gifts includes one of my all-time favorite barbecue books which was just re-issued on paperback, “Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue” by John Shelton Reed, Dale Volberg Reed, and William McKinney
– Charlotte Agenda: “Noble Smoke could give Charlotte a true barbecue flagship”
Noble Smoke will be opening this spring on Freedom Drive.https://t.co/eFEYNVu1fW
— Charlotte Agenda (@charlotteagenda) December 12, 2017
– However, one recently-elected city councilwoman will not be patronizing Noble Smoke when it does open due to his support of HB2 in 2015
– Carolina Smokehouse brings western NC barbecue to Carolina Beach’s boardwalk
– Congrats to B’s Cracklin’ BBQ!
Restaurant of the year winner B’s Cracklin’ is keeping barbecue old school in Atlanta https://t.co/xLfBpZdPSN pic.twitter.com/SZfpz9qoCa
— Eater Atlanta (@EaterAtlanta) December 12, 2017
– The Port City Ribfest moves from Wilmington to Carolina Beach this November
– It’s no surprise that barbecue is North Carolina’s iconic dish according to Flavored Nation; Missouri is the only other state they list with barbecue as its iconic dish
– Charleston is one of the best food towns in the south, in part because of their barbecue restaurants
– A Washington Post travelogue to Chapel Hill includes a visit to The Pig for lunch
Gail goes with a nifty riff on North Carolina-style barbecue, a salad topped with tender chunks of Vietnamese pork cheek and crispy, dried shrimp. Ewan has a more traditional heaping plate of Eastern Carolina-style pulled pork with cider-vinegar sauce. On counsel of the affable guy behind the counter, I order a fried Bologna sandwich, which has about as much in common with my childhood memories of this luncheon meat as Spam does with chateaubriand.
– A review of Daddy Bob’s Barbeque, a promising-sounding truck in Raleigh that smokes shoulders over a mix of hickory, apple, and pecan and serves with an eastern vinegar sauce
– A group of Sampsonians will be trying to save Lewis Barbecue, which closed Labor Day weekend
– Art’s Barbecue & Deli gets a short profile in Charlotte Five
– Just a reminder:
“Lexington, North Carolina, is to barbecue what Paris, France, is to baguettes.” https://t.co/mq7b3ZCZIG pic.twitter.com/MS5mtgPylJ
— Our State Magazine (@ourstatemag) September 17, 2017