Robin L. wrote: >Sorry, but Mr. Powdrell's doesn't even come CLOSE to the best. ... I don't know if they're the best in the US (highly subjective, in any case), but I like Smalley's Round Up in Salinas, California, and, as a close second, Central Texas BBQ, in Castroville, California (Castroville, by the way, bills itself as the "Artichoke Center," which always makes me smile, since they missed, perhaps intentionally, the obvious "Artichoke Heart."). spl
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