NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 13:27:10 +0000 (UTC) Xref: usenet.INS.cwru.edu alt.food.barbecue:90853 Kevin wrote in message news:... > While you are in Winston, you are only 20 minutes from Lexington NC, home of > the famous Lexington #1. Well worth the drive. > > That reminds me, time to go visit my Dad in Winston, with an obvious side > trip :) > > Chef J. wrote: > > Well, looks like I'm gonna get a second try to make it down to Big > > Jim's. > > > > Week after next I have a 4 day biz trip to Charlotte, NC (with a side > > trip up to my In-Laws in Winston Salem) after which I'm heading down > > to Woodbine GA to visit my Dad again. > > > > I'm gonna take a detour down to Big Jims somewhere in there, but in > > the meantime I wanta find some good Carolina 'Que > > > > SO... > > > > Any suggestions on good barbecue in Charlotte and/or Winston-Salem? > > > > > > Anybody.... > > > > Anybody.... > > > > Bueller? > > > > -Chef Juke > > http://www.chefjuke.com > > "Everybody Eats when they come to MY house!" > > > > (Remove the CAPS from the return address when sending email replies) > > > > I WOULD say my house guys but, I don't have much time for queing of late. :( Otherwise, in Lexington...Lexington #1 or the Barbecue Center. Now that SIMO's in Winston is closed I don't know of many good places left out that way. There are a few on Highway 66 just north of I-40 in Kernersville that I've heard are decent. Though I have not been in to verfiy..yet. Rob Q 4 all.
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Good 'Cue in CHARLOTTE or Winston-Salem, NC.?
NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Apr 2004 19:27:13 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: usenet.INS.cwru.edu alt.food.barbecue:90875 Chef J. wrote: > After reviewing the responses and doing a little bit of research, I've > come up with the following itinerary: > > SAT 4/24: Arrive Charlotte 7:00 PM, get rental car, drive to > Winston-Salem to visit Sis In-law and family. On the way, stop at > LEXINGTON BARBECUE #1 for dinner. > > MON 4/26: Drive back to Charlotte to pick up colleague at airport. > On the way, Stop at BARBECUE CENTER for Lunch. > > TUE 4/27: Drive back up to Lexington with colleague and try SPEEDY'S > for Dinner. SNIP... > So, anything along that route that I'm missing? Chef, I haven't been to Lexington since 1998, but at the time I tried Lexington #1, Speedy's, John Wayne's, Stamey's, Jimmy's, and Southern. (See http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~thc/bbqtour/lexington.html) My wife and I agreed that of the six, Jimmy's was unquestionably the best, and we both rated Speedy's as #5 of the six. I can understand that you gotta try Lexington #1 (even though I thought that John Wayne's and Stamey's were better), but I *strongly* suggest trying Jimmy's, even if it means bypassing Speedy's. Of course, you could do like we did: a sandwich at Jimmy's at 10:00 AM, a sandwich at Southern at 10:30 AM, a sandwich at Stamey's at 11:15 AM, and splitting a sandwich (c'mon, you can't blame us) at Lexington #1 at noon. (And, no, that's not why I didn't like Lexington #1 as much...I'd already had dinner there the night before, so my judgment was unimpaired by previous Q that day.) Interestingly, we picked up on a Jimmy's-Speedy's axis...those who liked one tended not to like the other. Now...I'm gonna be in your neck of the woods in late May. I found your Richmond suggestions in the a.f.b archives. Any updates you wanna pass along my way? --THC ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tom Cormen Voice: (603) 646-2417 Associate Professor Fax: (603) 646-1672 Dept. of Computer Science Email: [email removed] Dartmouth College URL: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~thc/ 6211 Sudikoff Laboratory Hanover, NH 03755-3510 ------------------------------------------------------------------------