7 Best Brooklyn BBQ Restaurants To Try Out

Whether in the cold winter days or hot summer nights, a good old barbeque is always best to eat and enjoy. And although New York City is not in Texas, there’s many amazing barbeque joints that you can try out, especially in Brooklyn.

Here are some of the best Brooklyn BBQ restaurants that you should try out when you visit the city:

1. Dinosaur Bar-B-Que

If you ask any of those who have tried this restaurant, none of them will ever tell you that you will leave in Dinosaur Bar-B-Que hungry. Their menu has a lot of variety to offer. Even a vegetarian will have something to eat in this restaurant, like the Fried Green Tomato Sandwich.

Here’s more about them:

• Their meals include two side dishes and cornbread.
• Highly recommended dishes are their pulled pork, beef brisket, mashed potatoes, and collard greens.

To check out their complete menu, visit their website at www.dinosaurbarbque.com. If you plan on visiting their Brooklyn restaurant, better call for a reservation to skip the line that usually forms during peak hours.

2. Fette Sau

Fette Sau, which is translated as fat pig, can already be considered an icon in Brooklyn. They have been serving barbeque goodness in the neighborhood for more than ten years.

These are some of the other features of Fette Sau:

• They always serve six different cuts of meat every day.
• Their brisket, pork belly, and pork spare ribs are available almost every day.
• Other than the three mentioned, they also serve beef rib, black Angus sirloin, pork shoulder, thick-cut bacon, lamb ribs, sausage, and pastrami.

They don’t have a permanent menu which can be a pleasant surprise for their patrons. If you want to try Fette Sau’s barbeque goodness, be prepared to fall in line and wait to be served because there’s always a line during peak hours. Servers only take one order at a time, and your order will be prepared in front of you.

3. John Brown Smokehouse

Named after a Kansas abolitionist, John Brown Smokehouse is a cult favorite for its burnt ends which some would say is the best in town.

Some reasons to visit this restaurant:

• The barbeque style is a true-blue Kansas style.
• Other than their burnt ends, their pork ribs, belly, rib tips, and lamb sausages also come highly recommended.
• Their peach-blueberry pie is a perfect dessert to end a heavenly meal.

4. Mable’s Smokehouse

Mable’s Smokehouse’ Oklahoma-style barbeque, carves its own place in the Brooklyn area. Their barbeques are so loved that they have expanded into a catering business.

Here are their best features:

• Their crown is their super moist, tender and smoky brisket that is beloved by many of their patrons.
• Equally popular is their own sauce whose recipe has been passed on from the owner’s grandmother.
• Non-meat eaters can also get to enjoy their healthy vegetarian diet.
• Their Frito pie and Ro-Tel queso dip are also highly-recommended.

 5. Hometown Bar-B-Que

Hometown Bar-B-Que is a Texas-style barbeque, and so is their restaurant. Compared to other barbeque places in Brooklyn, theirs is enormous and spacious. They also have a stage where live bands perform on some days.

Know more about them:

• You must try their humongous beef rib, moist brisket and pork ribs.
• The seasoning of their pork ribs are done freestyle, and one of the most popular is their jerk rub pork ribs.
• Hometown’s chicken wings in Asian spices are also highly-recommended along with their brisket tacos.

6. Blue Smoke

Blue Smoke is one of the earliest BBQ joints in Brooklyn, but because more new BBQ joints have popped out in New York, Blue smoke has changed chef and changed menus in the past years. So, even if some would say that they are an “old” barbeque place, they are pretty much still new.

Their pepper rubbed beef brisket, big beef short rib, and their pulled pork shoulder are their best sellers.You must also try their deviled eggs, and mac and cheese. You will not regret it.

7. Mighty Quinn’s BBQ

Mighty Quinn’s BBQ started in Smorgasburg. Their food stall became so popular that it is sold out almost every weekend. That’s how good their Texas and Carolina combo barbeque is. What started as a pop-up food stall, is now a permanent barbeque joint in Brooklyn, and no one is complaining.

• The best and most recommended are their brisket, pulled pork, pulled pork sandwich, and Brontosaurus rib.
• They also have a bunch of craft beer to go along with your meat.
• For vegetarians, they also offer sweet potato casserole with Maple and Pecans.

Brooklyn is brimming with excellent restaurants, but if you are looking for some good, smokey and tender meat, there’s a lot of fantastic BBQ restaurants in Brooklyn, too. Reading reviews and a good research will get you where you want to be. Make sure you’re prepared for the line though, because the lines are long in good BBQ places.