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Wisconsin Made Michelle Wallace a 'Top Chef' Fan Favorite. Now the Houston Pitmaster Is Bringing the State Its First Fire and Smoke Barbecue Festival.
Michelle Wallace became a fan favorite when 'Top Chef' filmed in Wisconsin. She fell for the state, kept coming back, and on September 19 and 20 she brings it the first Sugar River Fire and Smoke BBQ Festival, headlined by Rodney Scott and a whole hog over coals.
He Left Asheville's Acclaim to Cook Whole Hog Back Home. Southern Living Just Named Elliott's the Best New Barbecue Joint in the South.
Elliott Moss made his name in Asheville, then came home to Florence, South Carolina to build brick pits behind a brewery. A year and a half later, Southern Living named Elliott's BBQ Lounge the best new barbecue joint in the entire South.
A Famous Mississippi Barbecue Joint Just Gave Away Its 11,000th Free Sandwich. It Does This Every Labor Day.
The Shed Barbeque and Blues Joint in Ocean Springs handed out free pulled pork for the 14th Labor Day in a row. Somewhere in the crowd, one guest got the 11,000th sandwich the joint has given away since the tradition began.
Four New Teams Made the BBQ World Cup Field This Weekend. In Idaho, Half a Point Decided It.
Calgary and Idaho sent four more teams toward Las Vegas and a shot at $1,000,000. In Idaho, 0.52 points across 52 teams decided both seats. The BBQ World Cup field is now 60 deep, with 40 to go.
Two Michelin-Starred Texas Pitmasters Took Their Smoke to a London Bank
InterStellar BBQ and la Barbecue, two of the four Texas joints holding Michelin stars, moved into The Ned in London for a month, cooking post-oak brisket and burnt ends inside a landmark former bank. The residency runs through October 4.
Chicago BBQ Won the Country's Biggest Rib Cook-Off. They Did It for the Uncle They Lost This Year.
The Best in the West Nugget Rib Cook-Off, the Labor Day contest locals call the Super Bowl of ribs, crowned its 2026 winners in Sparks, Nevada. Chicago BBQ took the $10,000 top prize and won it for a founder the team lost this year.
BBQ World Cup Qualifier: Darren Warth
They call Darren Warth the GOAT, and he found his way to three American Royals, a Jack Daniel's title, and the Barbecue Hall of Fame chasing a recipe for deer sausage. Now Iowa's Smokey D's is headed to the BBQ World Cup and a shot at $1,000,000.
In Brady, Texas, the World Championship Is for Goat. This Weekend, 200 Teams Cooked It for the 52nd Year.
For 52 years, the little town of Brady has crowned a world champion in a category almost no one else competes in: barbecued goat. This Labor Day weekend, more than 200 teams fired up in the geographic heart of Texas to keep the strangest, oldest cook-off in the state going.
He Won a Houston Barbecue Joint in a 1949 Craps Game. Eighty Years Later, Lenox Is Serving Its Last Plates.
Lenox Barbecue, one of Houston's oldest smokehouses, closes September 30 after 80 years. Its story starts with a man who won the place in a craps game and built its pit out of a salvaged bread oven.
The Pitmasters Behind This $25,000 Barbecue Are Surgeons. They Cook for the Families Down the Hall.
A team of Baton Rouge surgeons and operating-room staff traded surgical gloves for barbecue mitts, served 200 plates, and raised $25,000 for the families of kids fighting cancer. Meet the Post-Op Pitmasters.
A Second-Year Idaho BBQ Fest Is Sending Two Teams Toward $1,000,000 This Weekend
The Meat and Tater BBQ Fest in Meridian, Idaho is only in its second year, and it is already a KCBS qualifier for the BBQ World Cup. This Labor Day Saturday it hands out two seats in the 2027 field, a shot at $1,000,000, and cooks a category no other contest has: the Idaho potato.
Jaccob Slavin Won a Stanley Cup and an Olympic Gold. Now the Hurricanes Star Is Betting on Barbecue.
Carolina Hurricanes defenseman Jaccob Slavin, fresh off a Stanley Cup and an Olympic gold, is making his first move off the ice: Prime STQ, a barbecue-and-steakhouse he is building near Durham with Christopher Prieto, one of the most decorated pitmasters in the country.