Profiled: Midtown Lunch’er “Vanessa” (& Big Apple BBQ Fast Pass Giveaway!)
Every Tuesday I turn over the site to a different Midtown Lunch’er for his or her recommendations for the best lunch in Midtown. Today it’s Vanessa, a marketing person who has the enviable position of being involved with the Big Apple BBQ Block Party this weekend in Madison Square Park. She even snagged us a Fast Pass to give away to one lucky Midtown Lunch reader. ($100 value, the pass will entitle you to food, and shorter lines.)
Name: Vanessa
Age: 38
Occupation: Associate Publisher Marketing, Every Day with Rachael Ray
Where in Midtown do you Work?: 34th and Madison (just close enough to the Treats Truck and not too far away from Gramercy Tavern) I work at Every Day with Rachael Ray so there is definitely no shortage of excellent food. It seems like you’d never have to leave, but sometimes you do have to.
Favorite Kind of Food: Asian (sushi, chinese, the like–anywhere that serves sticky rice), also love just about everything else including sweetbreads.
Least Favorite Kind of Food: Peanut Butter & Jelly and Yogurt (just can’t get past the first bite)
Favorite Place(s) to Eat Lunch in Midtown: I like the chicken rice bowl at Au Bon Pain. When I have time to travel, I’m quick to get soup at Hale & Hearty. Feeling like I need food fast, I’ll do chicken dumplings at Eden Wok (34th btw. Mad+Park), which may be Kosher but seriously they have the best chicken dumplings. If it’s a sit-down fast lunch I’m looking for, I like Todai (32nd btw. Mad+5th), the one city block Japanese all you can eat buffet. It’s the best buffet I’ve ever encountered. Finally, when I want to go out with a group for a fun Friday lunch it’s always Blue Smoke (27th btw. Park+Lex). I know it’s out of Midtown Lunch boundaries, but it’s the best BBQ in the city. This weekend I might get my fill though, given that I’ll be eating the best BBQ in the country at Madison Square Park for two days.
The “go-to” lunch place you and your co-workers eat at too often: Why and Gallard?…(really Guy & Gallard, but constantly asking myself why I can’t go a block or two further to wich craft)
Place you discovered thanks to Midtown Lunch? Woorjiip (32nd btw. B’way+5th) literally makes me feel like I’ve left New York and ventured to another country. Once you can navigate the space, its the best lunch ever. Love, love, love the eel.
If you could work anywhere (just because of the lunch) where would it be and why? I have to say, I miss working close to Dishes on 45th. Although it is perhaps one of the priciest go-to lunches I never got bored. Sushi on Friday, soup anytime and summer rolls when you could time it correctly. It was my all-in-one. If I really had to dream though, I’d say Paris (although I’d probably eat a little too much)…the bread alone is worth working there for, not to metion, pate and L’aduree. (I didn’t mean to rhyme)
Now for the good stuff. It’s not Midtown, but if you read this site (and you’re not a vegetarian), I’m guessing you like BBQ, and if you like BBQ the Big Apple BBQ Block Party is the biggest NYC BBQ event of the year. Some of the best pitmasters from around the country converge on Madison Square Park and sell the best dish they have to offer (go here for a complete list of pitmasters and the dish they’ll be serving.) The event is free, and you only pay for what you eat- but the lines can get pretty long. That’s why we’re giving away a fast pass, after the jump…
The Big Apple BBQ Block Party sells a limited number of fast passes, which give you $100 worth of food, and allow you to skip the lines, but they stopped selling them this past Friday… there may be limited number available at the event on Saturday, but if you don’t want to leave it chance, Vanessa has graciously donated a Fast Pass for one lucky Midtown Lunch reader courtesy of Every Day With Rachel Ray. All you have to do is comment below with your favorite BBQ dish and place (from anywhere in the country… doesn’t have to be Midtown), and you’re entered to win. Make sure to include your email address in the “email” field. It won’t show up on the site, but I’ll need it to contact the randomnly drawn winner. Good luck! This contest is now closed. The winner was chosen at random and has been contacted. Thanks for entering!
As always, if you want to be the next Profiled: Midtown Lunch’er, or you’d like to nominate somebody in your office, email me at zach@midtownlunch.com
Posted: 11:25 am, June 3rd, 2008 under PROFILE: Midtown Lunch'er.
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Pulled pork – know idea what it was called in North Carolina
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Sliced Beef sandwich, Gates BBQ in K.C. MO
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Dinosaur BBQ [2nd location: Rochester, NY]: Big Ass Pork plate with cajun corn, spicy cucumber salad, and sweet corn bread + Genny light.
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beef brisket at kreuz market.
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Here in NY, my favorite is the Pork Belly at Fette Sau in hipsterburg. I don’t want to think about my favorite place in the US because it is far away and I will cry thinking about it.
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Pork Ribs at Hill Country!
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The gloriously fatty PORK BELLY @ Spuyten Duyvil
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OOPs! Wrong side of the street – Fette Sau, I meant.
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The BBQ Chicken Wings At Dinosaur BBQ!
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Burnt ends sandwich at Smokin’ Joes, KC
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Allen&Sons -North Carolina
Pulled Pork, Hushpuppies and Fat-Fried Catfish
and a pitcher of Sweet Tea.Sigh……
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Opps and the email…..
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Pulled-pork sandwich from Blue Smoke, NY
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I have to say Bullock’s in Durham, NC… pulled pork w/vinegar-style sauce, fried chicken, hush puppies, collard greens and Brunswick stew.
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Big Apple BBQ’s bbq. Depends on the day, but anywhere there.
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Hands down…..Salt Lick BBQ in Austin Texas. Absolute best BBQ in the entire world. If you are a BBQ fan, its worth it to take a trip there just for the food. EVERYTHING is AMAZING. I dont have a favorite really, i could eat anything and everything there. Although maybe the burnt ends are my most fav. I miss it
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Firestone Grill San Luis Obispo, CA
Tri-tip steak sandwiches
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Fat Matt’s Ribshack — BBQ Ribs (and Brunswick stew). Also got a shout out from your own Rachel Ray in under $40 a day.
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For at home fun without out the pit, we just tried pulled pork, shredded beef, burnt berkshire pork ends and beef brisket from here – http://www.jackstackbbq.com
Really, really hit the spot!
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The dry ribs from Brother Jimmy’s on the UES.
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the pork platter at the GA Pig – in georgia.
picnic benches. one fireplace where everything is cooked. and once they’re out of a dish – they’re done for that day. everything freshly bbqed each day. and everything is amazingly good. i went there in 2000 – and i still dream about the place – i so need to go back soon. -
By far the best spare ribs I’ve ever eaten are my Dad’s. Once I asked him to show me how to make them, having assumed there’d be some sort of “secret family recipe” and I was baffled to find that it just involves a lot of “grab all the available nearly empty sauce bottles (of all kinds) and shake them clean with a tablespoon or two of apple cider vinegar. Then poor out what you shook.” My mouth is watering just thinking about them.
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brisket from hill country or the ribs at twin anchors in Chicago
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28 day dry aged scotish mountain cattle sirloin steak in my garden with a stella or 10.
And chips twice done in duck fat.
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BBQ is the reason I am not wholly a vegetarian, despite my overall tendencies. Once a year on my birthday I love some pork ribs. Since everyone is going south, and I did enjoy me some Dusty’s and Fat Mat’s while living in ATL, I’ve gotta go for BBQ pork ribs at Norms in Portland Maine. Yum. And cornbread. Or sweet potato fries.
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Peter Pan’s Donuts and Ribs – East Euclid, Ohio
Pulled Pork with several cold beers and some corn bread.
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pulled pork from Rack and Soul is my favorite.
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Jack’s bar in Long Branch, NJ has the most succulent ribs i’ve ever laid lip on… never been to Texas so not saying they’re the best, but for what us northerners have been exposed to, they do a damn fine rib rack with a pitcher of Coors Light.
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When I was in college in Ithaca, NY, I had a fond place in my heart for a little BBQ joint called Ralph’s Ribs. It was the only place for miles where I could get a sweet potato pie. Not many people north of the Mason-Dixon Line seem to know about sweet potato pie it seems. Their loss.
Though Ralph’s has since moved on, I found Maxie’s Supper Club in Ithaca to fill the void. The aptly named “Piggy Platter” always hit the spot and then some.
As for the best BBQ, I’m not sure if I have a single place. When I visit my parents who just moved to North Carolina, I always stop for pulled pork with vinegar sauce and pickles on a Piggly Wiggly bun at this (as far as I know) nameless smoke shack about 10 minutes from their house in Chapel Hill.
On a related note, does anyone know where to get fried pickles in NYC? I’m dieing to sink my teeth into some again. Mama Dips in Chapel Hill makes a damn fine version of them.
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half-slab of ribs at Dreamland in Tuscaloosa, AL. There is no menu, no side dishes, no salads. Your choices are a slab or a half-slab.
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I grew up in Syracuse, so the original Dinosaur BBQ up that way holds a smoky place in my heart. Every time I go visit, I need at least a rack of ribs and a quart of chili. The one in Harlem just isn’t the same, it’s passable, but the Syracuse original makes it look like Dallas BBQ.
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Jughed’s Kansas Style BBQ
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Flint’s in Oakland (San Pablo location), any item!
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my favorite barbecue is brisket, smoked for about 6-8 hours in my friends’ house upstate in mahopac. It’s almost like being in montreal.
It’s sort of barbecue for northern jews; hope that lets me qualify!
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my favorite bbq is bridges bbq lodge in shelby, north carolina: http://www.roadfood.com/Reviews/Overview.aspx?RefID=192
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The best BBQ I’ve ever had is my own. Buffalo ribs with a homemade rub. It’s not going to win me the contest, but I’m being honest.
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Had a business trip in Kansas City a few years back and ate BBQ everyday I was there. The best burnt ends, ribs, baked beans and corn ever – Fiorella’s Jack Stack Barbeque.
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The Beef Ribs from RedBones, Boston MA. (I’m so sorry!)
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Big Ed’s near Piscataway! (Since deceased, but I believe there’s another one elsewhere in Jersey.) They had amazing sides and all you can eat ribs, and the late-night advertising was phenomenally, transcendently bad. (Ie: Kids: Grandad, are you ok? Grandad: I’m dying! Kids: Oooohhh. Grandad: Dying to go to Big Ed’s!!)
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I’ve been to the dreamland outpost in Birmingham, good stuff, I agree.
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The Backyard in Marine Park on east 31st street has the most slamming St.Louis style smoked ribs with a rum/pineapple/chipotle glaze applied after cooking and just seared on the grill with the glaze afterwards.
Oh and their Smoked Roast Turkey breast with Maple and Honey glaze? excellent.
The Keilbasa is always pretty decent. The Brisket needs work, based on the suggestion of the assistant chef (my girl) it was way over cooked, even for brisket!
the head chef there? Me. :) I love my smoker I bought from Costco :D
ZACH!!!! I need the BBQ pass, I’ll even trade you a rack of my ribs the next time I do it up.
But as far as REAL restaurants goes, The Ranger BBQ in Jackson Heights is great.
Short Ribs, Baby Backs, Brisket, North eastern Style Carolina Pulled Pork ( vinegar based and I believe they SMOKE THEIR SAUCES!).I love their Beef Short Rib Flaunta’s, deep fried smoked short ribs in a tortilla… need I say more?
The smokehouse is in the BACK OF A BAR!!! Called Legends Bar.
I seriously reco their BBQ, no frills and just great food.chowhound discussion on the spot:
http://www.chowhound.com/topics/368353addy:
RANGER TEXAS BARBECUE at Legends, 71-04 35th Avenue, Jackson Heights, Queens; (718) 803-8244. -
daisy may’s dry rub memphis ribs…..they are so good that after you eat them you’re in a coma for a day
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The onion loaf at the now defunct southern house in point pleasant New Jeresy… it’s not a bbq dish, but it was served at a bbq restaurant.
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The absolute best was this Mom & Pop type stand in somebody’s front yard in the outskirts of Miami, Fl…GOLDEN RIBS! Man I might make another trip down there just to get those ribs again…slammin’!!!
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pulled pork from daisy may’s
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My dearest Vanessa:
I sense something deep and perhaps even meaningful hiding behind those mirrored glasses. By the way, I have a pair myself. Foster Grants circa 1973. So I can relate. There is more to me than meets the eye, as well.
I am intrigued with your association with Ms. Rachael Ray. I am a regular contributor to her RR Show message boards. I do so fear for Ms. Ray’s physical and mental health (I am a PhD, should that interest you). Please convey my thoughts and prayers to her.
Let me say also that although I will NOT eat asian food of any sort, I do find myself gravitating to the peoples of asia, particularly enchanting women.
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all the ribs from blue smoke
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favorite cue place is RUB
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sloppy joe sandwich. from my mom’s !
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best bbq dish (in nyc) imo are the st. louis ribs from blue smoke WITH (and this is a must) a side of mac and cheese. blue smoke’s mac and cheese makes me weak in the knees.
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The 3-Way Combo at Dr. Hogly Wogly’s Tyler Texas BBQ in Van Nuys, CA. And not just because of the name….ok kinda because of the name.
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Aw man, Cait just reminded me about Bullock’s. My mouth is watering, my stomach is growling, and I’m having visions of the BBQ I grew up on. I think I just might have to call in sick tomorrow, go back to Durham, and let my inner Carolina girl roam free.
Doc, just this once, shut it. This is for the Holy Grail Fast Pass!!!
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The Ode to Elgin platter at Dinosaur in Harlem is my fave. It includes pork ribs, beef brisket and sausage. Mac & Cheese is my favorite side dish.
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A tub of Lloyd’s, meat isle, Key Food.
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Everything Texan!
MeatFest ‘99, as we call it, begins sometime during wedding season each year when all my old high school buddies all head back to Dallas and tackle Dickey’s, Sonny Bryan’s, Peggy Sue’s, Pappas Bros. BBQ- finishing up with a trip down to San Antonio. Though we make a pit stop over at The Salt Lick in Austin, the culinary battle royale takes place at Kreuz Market where everyone tackles the entire menu before swinging on by to Shiner for the best brew in the state.
Back up here in NYC, I’ve got to give it up to Hill Country and my love for their moist brisket (though the new roast boar is excellent)- so much so that I moved to an apartment above the place not long after it opened!
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full rack from Rendezvous in Memphis. dry rub. awesome. but, also pretty much any pulled pork from memphis will make me incredibly happy – and of course coleslaw should go on the sandwich.
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brisket from hill country is mighty tasty.
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Pulled pork sandwich at Stamey’s in Greenboro, NC. Amazing.
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The pulled pork and spicy sausage from Fette Sau are almost godlike.
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I haven’t been south much, so my BBQ experiences are citified. Oh well, I seem to make do… The center cut smoked pork rib-eye on the bone at Hill Country is magnificent, but I have to say my fave would be St. Louis ribs with vinegar sauce from RedBones in Somerville, Mass. Good people, tasty, fatty ribs. But that sauce is just fantastic — vinegar with a little minced onion and some spices.
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Grandma’s Beef Brisket! She doesn’t do much cooking anymore, but you would be hard-pressed to find brisket — “like butta” — that Grandma used to make:)
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Roast Pork Cuban Style from Versailles in Miami. MMmm crispy skin.
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I’m pretty sure enchanting women from Asia wouldn’t touch DocChuck with a ten foot pole. (Or an eight foot German.)
Love both kinds of ribs at Daisy May’s beyond all reason. They’re even better the next day.
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Louie Mueller in Taylor, TX! The chopped beef, brisket and house made beef sausages are outrageous.
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Brisket from Plush Pig, Fenton, Missouri.
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#3) big bob gibson’s (or even those other gibsons in huntsville) pulled pork and white sauce – for breakfast
#2) ribs from interstate bbq in memphis (would be #1 if portion was bigger)
#1) pulled pork from carl’s perfect pig, white bluff, tnbut there are so many good ones!
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BBQ chicken wings from Blue Ribbon on Sullivan Street.
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Best pulled pork ever is from King’s BBQ in Kinston, NC. It is well smoked, moist and delicious. Best of all, you can order it online and it is even delicious when it is sent to you. It doesn’t come all dressed up in sauce, so you can put whatever sort of sauce you like on it (I prefer vinegar based sauces).
The Big Apple BBQ was great last year, especially the brisquit from the Salt Lick and the pulled pork from blackjack BBQ.
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beef bbq ribs at hill country
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Daisy May’s for Memphis Ribs. Delicious!!!!!!! Please Pick me…. I really want a Fast Pass!!!! I’ll take you as my guest!
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Docchuck’s posts are worth the price of admission. I havent had a chance to try the new bbq places, but I bbq standardly from March to November.
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So far I’ll say the mutton at Sam’s Bar-B-Que in east Austin. Mutton folks! Its greasy, fall-off-the-bone goodness makes your heart clog up and jump for joy.
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brisket from Hill Country in NYC. mmmm..
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Daisy May’s Pulled-pork…mmm
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The pork brisket burnt ends at RUB.
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Pulled pork from Big Bob Gibson at the bbq festival
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Mel’s Old West in Planada CA. If dear old Mel is still alive….
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My other favorite dish is found wherever Vanessa is driving to in that photo. Especially because she is belted in, which means she’s in a speedy reckless hurry to get something really tasty.
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Big ass pork plate w/ cajun corn and mac-n-cheese @ Dinosaur BBQ in Rochester, NY.
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I love the ribs from the Pork Pit in Montego Bay. They are the best I have ever had.
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The Big Apple BBQ Block Party is awsome!
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The juicy ribs from BBQ Dinosaur sure are delicious especially when its topped off with extra bbq sauce. The wings are might meaty and good as well.
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pulled pork from my own smoker
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STOP REPLYING EVERYONE!!!! YOU’RE DECREASING MY CHANCES OF WINNING!!!!!
I grew up loving Tony Roma’s Rib’s. :)
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Marc Siegel’s Ribs of MSR in Westchester NY. His dry rub is the best kept secret in the BBQ world.
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ribs at dinosaur bbq in syracuse
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Texas brisket plate @ Dinosaur BBQ in Syracuse!
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The grilled artichoke and baby back ribs at Hitching Post II in Buellton CA are amazing!
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Dinosaur bbq’s pulled pork… pork ribs and/or brisket MOIST at hill country… droolage. i had some for lunch today =D
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It’s a toss up. The hacked pork at Smoke Joint, the bacon chunks from RUB or the baby backs from JTs in Tacoma, WA.
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Salt Lick BBQ in Austin Texas!!! No where else comes close.
I prefer the ribs.
Beer, meat, beer, meat, beer, meat, meat. -
Chopped pork sandwich @ Wilber’s in Goldsboro NC
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All you can eat brisket at Salt Lick (BBQ). I’m getting hungry just thinking about it.
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I dig the baby back ribs at the good ol’ Smoke Joint in Fort Greene. Really nice guys who own the place (and the Li’l Pig Market next door too). Barbeque is definitely better in Brooklyn.
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BBQ Ribs at Cozy Corner, Memphis, TN!
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Baby back ribs from Swallow at the Hollow in Atlanta GA
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OMG I did not know anyone else knew about the pork pit in MBJ! The most tender ribs ever. They just fall off the bone and right into my mouth. Everyone should go to Jamaica for the ribs, cold red stripe and the beach.
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pulled pork from City BBQ in Columbus, OH
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Hard choice between Daisy May and Hill Country — gonna go with the Hill Country pork ribs though!!
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A tough call, but I love the briskey at Cotton’s in Robstown, Texas. Deliciously marbled to say the least. Though I also love the Dino in Rochester and, despite my wife’s enmity, the Carolina-style ‘cue from Bullock’s in Durham, NC.
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As I type this, there are 100 comments on this post
Make that 101, as I hit the submit button
Is this a new record for ML, Zach?
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In terms of dish, it’s totally got to be real Texas brisket. While I too love Salt Lick in Austin, I will show some South Texas pride and go with Cotten’s BBQ outside Corpus Christi.
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Pulled pork all-you-can-eat from Sonny’s BBQ in Florida (it’s a chain)
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That pic is actually me..my Victoria Beckham look.
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Baby back ribs from Corky’s in Memphis, Tennessee…slathered in sauce with a side of corn bread and the burnt end beans….wow…mouth watering now….
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Pulled pork sandwich from Bubba’s BBQ in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
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any bbq sandwich from zingerman’s in ann arbor, mi!
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Dinosaurs
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BBQ Pork Sandwiches with Cole Slaw, 5 Star Day, Athens, GA.
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I agree with the Bullocks votes above, but I think they leave off the key ingredient that will make all Midtown Lunchers salivate: for under $10 (or at least it was recently), “Family Style” gets you all-you-can-eat of the best BBQ on earth, green beans, hush puppies, fried chicken, brunswick stew and cole slaw. All-you-can-eat for under $10. Enough said.
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Big Bob Gibson’s pulled pork sandwich. I can eat 4 of those lovelies in a sitting, and nearly did it at last year’s BABBP. But Dinosaur’s uptown is sufficient for a pulled pork sandwich fix.
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Beef on bun from Gates and Son in Kansas City. I spent 3 weeks there for work and out of 15 lunches, 13 of them involved Gates and Sons.
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Dinosaur poisoned damn near all of Rochester one year. I can only imagine this will happen again. I miss the mediocrity of Tennessee Mountain in Soho. Smokey Bones in Florida is pretty good.
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around here: pork belly at fette sau (the 8 block walk to get there almost burns the calories…right?…)
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Pulled Pork @ Dinosaur BBQ! @ Vanessa: Any hook-ups on Rachel Ray tickets? My wife’s grandmother loves her show!
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The pulled pork @RUB on 23rd!
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Babyback ribs, cole slaw and corn on the cob from the Kansas City Barbeque in San Dog (Diego), CA.
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The short end ribs at RUB makes me a die a little of happiness every time…
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The ribs at Blue Smoke.
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All these posts for a free pass and $100 of food tickets.
This is Manhattan not Mogadishu, right?
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I don’t want the free pass. I just commented because I felt left out of the crowd of lemmings heading off the cliff into the barbecue sauce.
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Any more responses and ML is going to look like Chowhound
Except that Zach
1. Knows how to run a board
2. Has a great sense of humor and doesn’t spend his day deleting posts for trivial reasons
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Pulled pork sandwich from Daisy Mae’s!!
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Burnt ends at RUB, wings at Dinosaur.
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The Beef ribs, at Jack Stack in KC. man they are good
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Brisket sandwich at Top of the Hill Grill in Brattleboro VT. Good as any (sauce based) BBQ I’ve ever had.
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It’s definitely not a traditional bbq place, but the ribs at Parker’s Maple Barn in New Hampshire (in tiny Mason, NH) reminds me of summers as a kid. Great place. Great pancakes too.
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Baby back ribs at Buz & Ned’s in Richmond, VA.
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BarBQ in south PS, practically Sunset Park, has a good basic pulled pork. The the chief has a line of various hot sauces that will grow hair on your back (if that sorta thing excites you). You can add the vinegar sauce and you’re set. Plus a connoisseurs line of bourbons.
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Blue Smoke Pulled pork sandwich is a thing of beauty.
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Dinosaur bbq spare ribs with their special sauce in Harlem New York. It’s so good that they even sell their special bbq sauces in local stores.
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BBQ ribs from Dinosaurs in Harlem, NY
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Dinosaur BBQ in Rochester: The Bar-B-Que Prime Rib Sandwich with sides of Tomato Cucumber Salad and A.K. Chili, with lots of Devil’s Duel sauce.
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Beef ribs. Right here in Midtown.
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Bossman Babyback ribs from the grill on my deck, dry rubbed with my own concotion (heavy on the brown suigar and cayenne), wrapped in heavy duty foil, a drinkable red wine and half a can of Coke poured in, sealed and thrown on the grill for a few hours. When they’re falling off the bone (and not a minute sooner) slathered with a homemade bbq sauce and finished over mesquite chips. To die for if I do say so myself.
I did up a dozen racks for Memorial day and for the first time ever had a left over half rack (there were twelve of us (4 being rugrats under 4yo). I took that and made a kick ass fried rice the next day (which was even better the day after).
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Daisy May’s sticky ribs!! Yummmmm
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Brisket plate, Smitty’s, Lockhart, TX (Kreuz Market is a close second, though)
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pulled pork sammich at Mike Anderson’s BBQ in Dallas
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Anything barbequed with delicious vinegary Carolina sauce from a hole in the wall on the way to the Outer Banks in NC
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The rib sampler platter at Blue Smoke, oh how I miss living blocks away from there. Or for out of state, Flint’s in Oakland, CA is A.Mazing. Probably the brisket. I also enjoy a nice roadside chicken bbq’d in a large oil drum in Anguilla in the caribbean. Preferably the one near the supermarket that also sells Johnny Cakes.
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ribs at Dinosaur BBQ in Rochester
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Pulled pork sandwich from Daisy May’s (or if down South a pulled pork meat ‘n’ three from any fine local hole in the wall).
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The ribs at Dallas Jones BBQ.
Cause the price is right, and there are even further discounts for students and savvy vigmeisters.
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Daisy May’s dry-rub ribs with sides of beans with burnt ends and creamed spinach. Honorable mention to the brisket and smoked kielbasa at Hill Country.
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chopped brisket sandwich @ dickey’s in dallas.
hard to find brisket sandwiches done right in these parts — they’re always sliced and/or stewing in the over-sugary sauce all day.
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BBQ chicken at virgil’s.
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Jalepeno cheddar sausages at Kreutz Market in Lockhart, TX! They supply them to Hill Country, but eating them at Kreutz is where it’s at!
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(tie) Frito Pie at Sonny Bryan’s in Dallas and moist brisket at Hill Country
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the one in the back of the bar in Queens used to be my favorite; Also when they ran the GuitarBQ in Asbury Park there were a few vendors that were very very good!
But i think the topper is my downstairs neighbor who does a very reputable smoke in their backyard, makes our whole house smell like ‘Q, it kills me!
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Brisket from Salt Lick in Driftwood, TX. Hands down.
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The 14.95 all you can eat chicken, pork, brikset and sausage with german potatoe salad and coleslaw, fresh from the BBQ pit at the Salt Lick in Austin, TX.
To make it even sweeter- the place is BYOB, so bring a cooler and spend the day eating some of the best done BBQ you’ll EVER try!
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RUB’s ribs on 23rd & 7th Ave used to be pretty good!
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the pig snoots from Smoki O’s in St Louis.
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Lem’s in Chicago, now at 311 E 75th St. Spareribs and rib tips.
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Dino BBQ in Syracuse, NY
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pulled pork from wood chicks in virginia
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the BBQ shrimp at Mr. B’s in New Orleans is my favorite by far…
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My Momma’s backyard in Queens.
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Hey Vaness… My favorite BBQ joint is Brown’s in Kingstreet, SC!!! We get it every year on the way down to the beach.
BBQ chicken plate at El Mayor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada