Serious Eats Father's Day Mail-Order 'Cue
With barbecue joints opening all over the country, even in barbecue wildernesses like New York, I decided my Father's Day Mail-Order 'Cue list should focus on smoked items that are hard to find outside their place of origin.
Southside Market's smoked hot beef sausage is so juicy, so delicious, and so reasonably priced it's worth ordering it in bulk and freezing what you don't use. That way your dad can be enjoying his Father's Day present for a long time. If you insist on getting Texas-style beef brisket, try Saltlick or Kreuz Market. But order the brisket and not the clod (beef shoulder). It's juicier.
At Alabama's Dreamland BBQ the ribs are porky, meaty and subtly smoked. Dreamland claims that there "ain't nothing like 'em nowhere," and they might be right. I don't think you'll need the sauce that comes with the ribs, but you can mop it up with the Sunbeam white bread that comes with your order.
No barbecue tour of the country would be complete without a stop in Kansas City, Missouri, and the best mail-order Kansas City barbecue I know comes from Fiorella's Jack Stack Barbecue. Their smoked brisket-laced beans are phenomenal, and its ribs and pork burnt ends are pretty damn fine.
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4 Comments:
Last weekend I attended the New York Block Party Barbecue and fell in love with Southside Market's sausage. It is better than anything I had ever eaten before.
I think you need to overemphasize that it is only reasonably priced if you order it in bulk. Being a single man I looked into just purchasing 5lbs of the smoked sausage and agree that the price of $30.99 was acceptable. Unfortunately, the only way it will be shipped is either UPS 2nd Day Air for $30 or UPS Next Day Air for $55.00
Therefore, I couldn't justify to myself to place an order. The shipping is just too expensive. Also, I understand and accept why they want, or need, to send /ship it using this method. My loss.
Bosmer at 2:52PM on 06/13/07
Oh my dear God I went to Dreamland for the first time on my way back from Texas a few weeks ago (the Birmingham location, not the original Tuscaloosa) and there truly is not nothing like those ribs nowhere.
I agree the ribs need no sauce, but as we sat down and the waitress brought a styrofoam plate with 8 slices of white bread and a little cup of sauce for me and my friend, I was a bit confused until I realized everyone in the joint was dipping bread in the warm sauce and dribbling it down their chins and all smiling and eyes glowing. I followed suit and before I knew it the waitress was asking us if we needed more.
I bought two jars of sauce and now every time I open the fridge I have to resist sticking my finger in one and just licking it off. The amount of self control required of me not to indulge this rather vulgar is enormous and actually kind of scares me.
Chips and salsa at my favorite taco joint Mi Madre's might be heaven, but that bread and sauce was so good it had to be a dream... [ahem]... Dreamland that is...
intheyearofthepig at 2:56PM on 06/13/07
I discovered Sticky Fingers BBQ restaurant on a trip to Chattanooga, TN and my husband and I would have eaten their ribs until our stomachs exploded. I am not a ribs fan but these were so moist and smoky and tender and just plain amazing that I couldn't stop. I live about 2 hours away from this location and I seriously drive that far just for the dinner (and a trip to the Aquarium). You can order their goodies online which will have to do for us since they haven't opened a restaurant in Atlanta, despite all my begging.
lwmallard at 4:53PM on 06/13/07
anyone know of a good carolina BBQ joint that mail orders??
britmill at 2:13PM on 06/14/07