How to Order Takeout from Our Favorite NC Barbecue Restaurants (Piedmont and West)

March 27, 2020June 2, 2020 / Barbecue Bros / Leave a comment

Monk: We featured our favorite Charlotte barbecue restaurants and how to order takeout from them earlier this week, and in this post we are featuring our favorite restaurants from the Piedmont and western part of the state.

Please note: As everything is pretty much a fluid situation these days, please call ahead or check on social media to ensure that the restaurant is open and serving.

Apple City BBQ (Taylorsville)
Thursday to Saturday, 11am to 9pm
Check their Facebook page for details on how to order

Barbecue Center (Lexington)
Monday to Saturday, 11am to 8pm
Call ahead to place order (336) 248-4633

BBQ King (Lincolnton)
Monday to Saturday, 10am to 8pm
Call ahead to place order: (704) 735-1112

Buxton Hall Barbecue (Asheville)
~~Monday to Sunday, 12pm to 7pm~~ Closed as of 4/1
~~Link to order online or call ahead to place order: (828) 232 7216~~

Hubba Hubba Smokehouse (Flat Rock)
Thursday to Saturday, 11am to 7pm
Link to order online or call ahead: (828) 595-9849

Hursey’s Bar-B-Q (Burlington, Mebane, Graham)
Monday to Saturday, 11am to 9pm
Link to order online plus drive-thru, delivery via GrubHub, or call ahead to order (336) 226-1694

Lexington Barbecue (Lexington)
Monday to Saturday, 10am to 8pm
Call ahead to place order: (336) 249-9814

Red Bridges Barbecue Lodge (Shelby)
Wednesday to Saturday, 11am to 8pm; Sunday 11am to 4pm
Call ahead to order: (704) 482-8567

Stamey’s Barbecue (Greensboro)
Monday to Saturday, 11am to 9pm
Link to order online or drive-thru

The Smoke Pit (Concord)
Monday to Saturday, 11am to 8pm
Link to order online or call ahead: (704) 795-7573

Linkdown: 7/31/19

July 31, 2019July 30, 2019 / Barbecue Bros / Leave a comment

The Free Times profiles three Columbia-area pitmasters who are doing different styles of barbecue

A Free Times Cover Story: Bach Pham spent time with barbecue masters @CityLimitsQ, Big T's BBQ and Julio Salomon Esqueda and took a look at how they conjure their 'cue.https://t.co/ila77ctei0
— Free Times (@FreeTimesSC) July 17, 2019

The Smoke Pit will open it’s fourth location in Gastonia later this year. Its original location is in Concord with two more stores in Salisbury and Monroe.

NC Tripping with a primer on NC barbecue plus their list of the best in the state

The Editor in Chief of Garden and Gun fondly remembers barbecue meals over the years

Editor in Chief Dave DiBenedetto savors the spread of an iconic Southern food: https://t.co/joGMPfviIT pic.twitter.com/V05LUmuzTn
— Garden & Gun (@gardenandgun) July 28, 2019

An American living in Canada takes a 10-day southern barbecue odyssey through Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Missouri

Reposting this fantastic article on the history of ribs from barbecue historian Robert Moss just because:

Barbecue ribs are actually a relatively recent addition to the American barbecue pit. I dug into the history for @seriouseats https://t.co/gsT2oAxzix
— Robert Moss (@mossr) July 29, 2019

The Redneck BBQ Lab, a barbecue restaurant attached to a gas station in in Benson, gets profiled by news channel WTVD 11

Plan accordingly:

🏖 We are very thankful to our employees for their hard work and dedication this year! We hope everyone has a restful vacation. We will reopen on Friday, August 9th 🏖. – Stacy and Aaron pic.twitter.com/hPFbmv0iHb
— Franklin Barbecue (@FranklinBbq) July 28, 2019

Instapot ribs: “The meat was tender and juicy, albeit a pallid gray color. Never mind, slap some sauce on those ribs and throw them in the hot oven until the sugars caramelize. They turned gloriously glossy with meat you could slurp off like a cartoon dog eating a chicken leg.“

How I became an Instant Pot ribs convert https://t.co/w3OOGz1jI5 pic.twitter.com/nabdiqWUx5
— The Takeout (@thetakeout) July 30, 2019

Linkdown: 9/5/18

September 5, 2018September 4, 2018 / Barbecue Bros / Leave a comment

– Treehouse Whiskey & Fork has always had barbecue on the menu, but they are rebranding as Treehouse Bourbon & BBQ

Why Treehouse restaurant just rebranded in SouthPark — and the ‘boujee’ new drink to try. https://t.co/3eKUSZMU07 #CLT5 @katietoussaint @treehousewandf pic.twitter.com/StlpuWctnQ

— CharlotteFive (@CharlotteFive) September 4, 2018

– Charlotte Agenda has a rundown of the upcoming restaurant openings, including Sweet Lew’s BBQ and Noble Smoke

– Eat at The Smoke Pit while in Cabarrus County, just north of Charlotte

– The story behind Dreamland

The story behind Dreamland Bar-B-Que sauce: from its Tuscaloosa origins to being shipped around the worldhttps://t.co/6izkWSLEVU pic.twitter.com/bKl1vVBtJo

— Matt Wake (@matthewbwake) August 30, 2018

– This weekend is the Fiddle ‘n Pig Shindig at the Anne Springs Close Greenway in Fort Mill, SC, which will include bluegrass music, a beer garden, and of course, barbecue

– The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has the best barbecue joints in Seattle

– Texas barbecue in Pittsburgh (via Brooklyn)

– Three C’s Barbecue has opened in Pink Hill, NC in the eastern part of the state

– Very much looking forward to this: James Beard Award-winning author Adrian Miller has a black barbecue book coming out in 2020/2021

It’s official! I have a book deal with @uncpress. Look for “Black Smoke,” my book on African American #barbecue culture, in 2020/21. It’s going to be hot! #bbq pic.twitter.com/tqDLBou6o3

— soulfoodscholar (@soulfoodscholar) September 2, 2018