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barbecue restaurant A barbecue restaurant is a restaurant that specializes in barbecue-style cuisine and dishes. Barbecue restaurants may open relatively early compared to other restaurants, in part to optimize sales while barbecued foods being slow-cooked by the ...

Barbecue Barbecue or barbeque (informally BBQ in the UK, US, and Canada, barbie in Australia and braai in South Africa) is a term used with significant regional and national variations to describe various cooking methods that use live fire and smoke ...

is a method and apparatus for char grilling food in the hot smoke of a wood fire, usually

charcoal Charcoal is a lightweight black carbon residue produced by strongly heating wood (or other animal and plant materials) in minimal oxygen to remove all water and volatile constituents. In the traditional version of this pyrolysis process, ...

fueled. In the United States, to grill is to cook in this manner quickly, while barbecue is typically a much slower method utilizing less heat than

grilling Grilling is a form of cooking that involves dry heat applied to the surface of food, commonly from above, below or from the side. Grilling usually involves a significant amount of direct, radiant heat, and tends to be used for cooking meat a ...

, attended to over an extended period of several hours. The term as a noun can refer to the meat, the cooking apparatus itself (the "

barbecue grill A barbecue grill or barbeque grill (known as a barbecue or barbie in Australia and New Zealand) is a device that cooks food by applying heat from below. There are several varieties of grills, with most falling into one of three categories: gas-f ...

" or simply "barbecue") or to the party that includes such food or such preparation methods. The term as an adjective can refer to foods cooked by this method. The term is also used as a verb for the act of cooking food in this manner. Barbecue has numerous

regional variations In geography, regions, otherwise referred to as zones, lands or territories, are areas that are broadly divided by physical characteristics (physical geography), human impact characteristics (human geography), and the interaction of humanity and t ...

in many parts of the world.

Barbecue restaurants

Al Tazaj Al Tazaj ( ar, الطازج) is a BBQ chicken Arabic fast casual restaurant chain headquartered in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The chain has presence in many countries of the Middle East. Meals and service The chain serves limited meals including r ...

* Andy Nelson's Southern Pit Barbecue * Arthur Bryant's * B.T.'s Smokehouse *

Bill Miller Bar-B-Q Enterprises Bill Miller Bar-B-Q is a San Antonio-headquartered restaurant chain that focuses on barbecue food, accompanying side dishes (such as potato salad and coleslaw), and baked goods. The restaurant started as a poultry and egg business in 1950 from a ...

* Billy Sims BBQ * Blue Ribbon Barbecue * The Blues Kitchen *

Chicken Treat Chicken Treat is an Australian barbecue chicken fast food restaurant chain that was founded and primarily operates in Western Australia. As of December 2022, Chicken Treat has over 60 outlets within Western Australia, one in Central Queensland, ...

* City Barbeque * Chooks Fresh & Tasty * Cooper's Old Time Pit Bar-B-Que *

Dickey's Barbecue Pit Dickey's Barbecue Pit is an American family-owned barbecue restaurant chain based in Dallas, Texas, and is a subsidiary of Dickey's Capital Group. Since Travis Dickey established the restaurant in 1941, it has become the largest barbecue franchis ...

* Dinosaur Bar-B-Que * Dixie's BBQ * Dreamland Bar-B-Que * Famous Dave's * Fiorella's Jack Stack Barbecue * Fogo de Chão * Franklin Barbecue *

Gates Bar-B-Q Gates Bar-B-Q is one of two Kansas City, Missouri restaurants (along with Arthur Bryant's) that trace their roots back to Henry Perry, founder of Kansas City barbecue. Founded Gates Bar-B-Q is a Kansas City original family restaurant that start ...

* Gator's Dockside * Gyu-Kaku * Holy Trinity Barbecue, Portland, Oregon * Joe’s Kansas City Bar-B-Que *

Jones Bar-B-Q Diner Jones Bar-B-Q Diner is a barbecue joint in Marianna, Arkansas, US, that has been open since at least the 1910s. According to business guide ''Black Business'', it is believed to be the country's oldest black-owned restaurant. In 2012 it was rec ...

* Jones Bar-B-Q * L&L Hawaiian Barbecue *

Lem's Bar-B-Q Lem's Bar-B-Q is a barbecue restaurant in the Chatham community of Chicago, Illinois in the United States. The restaurant is known for its rib tips, which ''Eater'' has described as Chicago's "most famous rib tips." History Lem's Bar-B-Q was fo ...

* Louie Mueller Barbecue * Lucille's Smokehouse BBQ * Matt's BBQ, Oregon * Mission BBQ * Montgomery Inn *

Nando's Nando's (; ) is a South African multinational fast casual chain that specialises in flame-grilled peri-peri style chicken. Founded in Johannesburg in 1987, Nando's operates over 1,200 outlets in 30 countries. Their logo (also seen as a sort ...

Pappas Restaurants Pappas Restaurants, Inc. or simply Pappas Restaurants is a privately held restaurant chain, headquartered in Houston, Texas. Its brands include Pappas Bros. Steakhouse, Pappas Seafood, Pappas Bar-B-Q, Pappas Burger, Pappadeaux Seafood Kitche ...

Pappy's Smokehouse Pappy's Smokehouse (often referred to as simply Pappy's) is a barbecue restaurant located in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. It was started in 2008 by Mike Emerson, who previously worked at another barbecue restaurant called Super Smokers. ...

* Phil's BBQ * Podnah's Pit Barbecue, Portland, Oregon * Red Hot & Blue * Reo's Ribs, Portland, Oregon, U.S. *

Rib Crib RibCrib is an Oklahoma-based restaurant that specializes in hickory-smoked barbecue and smoked meats in a casual, comfortable setting. The barbecue joint's signature recipe is in its slow-smoked ribs, but RibCrib also serves a complete menu of t ...

Rudy's Country Store and Bar-B-Q Rudy's Country Store and Bar-B-Q is a barbecue restaurant established in Leon Springs, a district of San Antonio in the U.S. state of Texas in 1989. The company operates restaurants in Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, and Florid ...

* The Salt Lick * Sconyers Bar-B-Que * Scores * Shane's Rib Shack * Slow's Bar BQ *

Smithfield's Chicken 'N Bar-B-Q Smithfield's Chicken 'N Bar-B-Q is a quick service restaurant chain in North Carolina serving fried chicken and Eastern North Carolina barbecue, with 39 locations country-wide, as of May 1, 2020. It has more than 39 locations in the state, as ...

Smokey Bones Barbeque Integrated Inc. (or simply Smokey Bones and doing business as Smokey Bones Bar and Fire Grill) is an American casual dining restaurant chain. Owned by Barbeque Integrated Inc. and under the umbrella of Sun Capital Partners, Smokey Bones ...

* Snow's BBQ *

Sonny Bryan's Smokehouse Sonny Bryan's Smokehouse is a well-known BBQ restaurant in Dallas, Texas that was founded by William Jennings Bryan Jr. (known as Sonny) in 1958 near the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. It has seven locations in the Dallas – ...

* Sonny's BBQ *

Texas de Brazil Texas de Brazil is a family owned churrascaria (Brazilian steakhouse) restaurant chain with locations both internationally and domestically. It debuted October 13, 1998 in Addison, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. The restaurant is a Brazilian-American ...

Tony Roma's Romacorp Inc., which does business as Tony Roma's, is an American casual dining chain restaurant specializing in baby back ribs. The first location was established by the founder, Tony Roma, in 1972 in North Miami, Florida. Clint Murchison J ...

* Weber Grill Restaurants

Barbecue restaurants

See also