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Canada's Oldest BBQ Contest Puts Two Vegas Tickets on the Table This Weekend
BBQ on the Bow has crowned champions in Calgary for three decades, which makes it Canada's oldest sanctioned barbecue contest. This weekend it hands out two seats in the 2027 BBQ World Cup field and a shot at $1,000,000, with a defending champion cooking on home ground.
Terry Black's Is Opening in New Braunfels on September 15. It Won't Be the Family's Last Stop on I-35.
On September 15, the fast-growing Terry Black's Barbecue fires up its pit in New Braunfels, a German-founded Hill Country town that already takes smoked meat seriously. It is the latest move in a barbecue family's steady march down Interstate 35, and San Antonio is next.
For 70 Years, Chicago Has Smoked Its Barbecue Behind Glass. No One Can Say Exactly Why.
On Chicago's South and West sides, the smoker has a glass door. The aquarium pit belongs to this city and almost no other, and its origin is a genuine mystery, tangled up in the Great Migration, a 1950s health crackdown, and a metal shop that never wrote it down.
A San Antonio Smokehouse Is in the Food Network 'Pitmasters' Finale. It Airs Tonight.
Esaul and Grecia Ramos of San Antonio's 2M Smokehouse reached the two-team finale of Food Network's 'Pitmasters,' airing tonight. The husband-and-wife team, a James Beard semifinalist and a pastry chef, face a decorated Calgary duo for up to $50,000.
UTSA Just Bottled Its Own Barbecue Sauce. It Is the 10th College to Do It.
UTSA Athletics teamed up with San Antonio sauce maker The Jank to launch Rowdy's Beak Heat BBQ, landing October 17 at the Navy tailgate. The Roadrunners are believed to be the 10th college athletic department to bottle a barbecue sauce of their own.
Fifty Years Ago, a Dallas Banker Smoked Turkeys in His Backyard. This Weekend, Smokey John's Throws the City a Party.
Smokey John's Bar-B-Que started as a Dallas banker's backyard hobby in 1976. It survived a boom-and-bust chain, a bankruptcy, and a 2018 fire. This Saturday it turns 50 with a free block party and a week of free brisket.
California's Best Barbecue Just Moved an 1880 Barn to Give Diners Their First Roof
For six years, Heritage Barbecue served some of California's best smoked meat in a parking lot. Now the Michelin-recognized joint has dismantled an 1880 barn, moved it 750 feet, and rebuilt it as its first indoor dining room.
A Professor Just Bottled a Truce for North Carolina's 100-Year Barbecue Sauce War
East is vinegar. West is tomato. In North Carolina, that barbecue split runs generations deep. A wildlife professor at NC State just launched Slobberin' Sauce to blend both sides into one jar, with every bottle funding student scholarships.
Crossed Bones BBQ Just Put Britain on the Road to $1,000,000
A Bristol pit crew called Crossed Bones BBQ won Grand Champion at the Beefstock Barbecue Championships and became the first British team in the BBQ World Cup field. Britain is the 11th country chasing the $1,000,000 prize in Las Vegas.
They Left a Michelin Kitchen to Cook the Food of Home. On September 1, Soul & Smoke Finally Opens Its First Real Restaurant.
Soul & Smoke grew from a pandemic catering pivot into three counters and a food truck. On September 1, the Chicago barbecue name opens its first full-service flagship in Evanston, in a building that once held a storied Black-owned business.
A Backyard Barbecue Team Just Won an 18-Month License to Run the Restaurant Inside Kansas City's Airport
Smokey Bey's Barbecue, a backyard competition team from Liberty, Missouri, beat 43 other pitmasters at the Made for KC contest. The grand prize is unlike anything else in barbecue: an 18-month license to run the restaurant inside Kansas City's airport.
Two of Texas Barbecue's Most Decorated Young Pitmasters Just Opened One Restaurant Together in Brooklyn
Chuck Charnichart of Barbs B Q and Jonny White of Goldee's met behind the counter at Franklin in 2016. This week they open Kirbee's in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, putting two very different Texas barbecue philosophies on one tray.