Chicago 'Almost' Tops List For Best BBQ City....

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The top 20 barbecue cities, as determined by LawnStarter, were ranked as follows:

1. Kansas City, Missouri (60.14 points)
2. Chicago, Illinois (46.46 points)
3. Houston, Texas (37.51 points)
4. Cincinnati, Ohio (35.88 points)
5. Memphis, Tennessee (34.08 points)
6. Louisville, Kentucky (31.47 points)
7. St. Louis, Missouri (29.86 points)
8. New York, New York (29.22 points)
9. Minneapolis, Minnesota (28.61 points)
10. Overland Park, Kansas (27.26 points)
11. Washington, D.C. (27.07 points)
12. Richmond, Virginia (26.47 points)
13. Denver, Colorado (25.33 points)
14. Los Angeles, California (25.30 points)
15. Omaha, Nebraska (25.22 points)
16. Atlanta, Georgia (25.08 points)
17. Grand Rapids, Michigan (24.64 points)
18. Austin, Texas (23.04 points)
19. Elk Grove, California (23.03 points)
20. Raleigh, North Carolina (22.87 points)

https://wgntv.com/news/americas-best-bbq-cities-revealed-in-new-ranking/amp/

What y'all think?

 

[parallax]

la is listed? is there a new barbecue scene out here?

 

[invalid]

la is listed? is there a new barbecue scene out here?

I wouldn't be surprised if LA had some good joints since a lot of people from Texas, Mississippi, and Louisiana migrated out that way. Same reason why Chicago lands on the list because of folks who came up from the same southern states.

 

[EBK String]

Chicago BBQ restaurants are trash. If they talking about people personal BBQ then cool.

 

[powmia]

The list is a joke as far as Raleigh is concerned. They must be talking about large cities only. People that live in NC would never put Raleigh in its top 5 or 10. We have gentrified BBQ here. True BBQ people put will always start with the Greenville, NC/Eastern NC or Lexington first.

 

[Eastside Get The Money]

Never been but I don’t believe Denver for one minute

 

[Hey_zeus]

Idk about this. The best bbq here is at people's cribs. I'm always disappointed when I try a hyped bbq spot. We don't have a defined style either since the black people in city are transports from the south(or their elders are southern).

 

[Apollo Creed]

Atlanta on the list hell no

 

[JackRoss]

The list is a joke as far as Raleigh is concerned. They must be talking about large cities only. People that live in NC would never put Raleigh in its top 5 or 10. We have gentrified BBQ here. True BBQ people put will always start with the Greenville, NC/Eastern NC or Lexington first.

What the fukk is NC?

 

[Moose_Greyjoy]

Chicago BBQ restaurants are trash. If they talking about people personal BBQ then cool.

Ive never thought of Chicago as a BBQ city, and I live 30 mins out the city

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

List is a joke.

Chicago has a lot of good food based on my experiences there.....but they are not #2....in front of Houston AND Austin .

New York in front of Austin/Lockhart etc?



They must be including Korean BBQ and the ribs you get from Chinese takeout spots or something. They cannot mean actual American BBQ.

 

[DropTopDoc]

Chicago BBQ restaurants are trash. If they talking about people personal BBQ then cool.

you tried I-57 ??


I’m not willing to say we number 2 but there are some popular bbq pit shops in the chi

I-57, Lems, curts used to be poppin til he wasn’t paying his taxes and the irs snatched his shyt, (you can still buy his “boss sauce” in jewel which was what made his food so damn good),Leon’s and a few others, but typically you would pick one and stick with it, I’m an I-57 guy, they rib tips and hot links and sauce are gawdly. It’s the one thing i miss about the crib

 

[EBK String]

you tried I-57 ??


I’m not willing to say we number 2 but there are some popular bbq pit shops in the chi

I-57, Lems, curts used to be poppin til he wasn’t paying his taxes. Leon’s and a few others, but typically you would pick one and stick with it, I’m an I-57 guy, they rib tips and hot links and sauce are gawdly

Leon's was good in the 90s. I wasn't impressed when I had it a few years ago.

 

[Samori Toure]

List is a joke.

Chicago has a lot of good food based on my experiences there.....but they are not #2....in front of Houston AND Austin .

New York in front of Austin/Lockhart etc?



They must be including Korean BBQ and the ribs you get from Chinese takeout spots or something. They cannot mean actual American BBQ.

Chicago barbque is really Memphis barbque, so Chicago might be number two depending on if you hit the right spots on the West and South Sides. Otherwise most of those spots are straight up trash.

I don't know why list individual cities for barbque. They should just circle the southern states and say if you want good barbque then go there and find country Black people. They'll hook you up.

edit: I just noticed this list is mad by more White people rating barbque. They probably were looking for a mayonnaise based sauce.

 

[powmia]

What the fukk is NC?

North Carolina