I think I'll keep calling it that.

[fancycwabs]

Lunch today was at a new barbecue restaurant called Cocksmoker's

No, wait--it's called the Whole Hog Cafe, and it was actually very good mostly--pig three ways, beef brisket, chicken, six sauces on the side with a seventh secret searing sauce subtlely squirreled away.

Bonus--it's five minutes from work. Corky's, the "definitve" Memphis chain, is right across the street, but Corky's is kinda ordinary unless you come from somewhere where the barbecue isn't very good, like New Orleans. (Mind you, everything else in New Orleans is great, so it more than makes up for it).

What's my point? I ate too much. There. I said it.

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[redtheblue.livejournal.com]

I think of Rendevous as the more definitive Memphis barbecue place and they have better sauce. Corky's is more of a syrup than a sauce to me.

Of course, the best barbecue is still in Devall's Bluff, Ark.

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

"Definitive" is how Corky's bills itself--as I said, I can take 'em or leave 'em. Cozy Corner is my barbecue of choice when I've got the time to make it down to the projects before dark, as they close at 6.

I've never been to Craig's but I hear great things. One day I'm gonna take a real weekend and hit Craig's, and another weekend I'm gonna head down to Oxford to Taylor Grocery and L&M Kitchen and Salumeria.