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Is this a time warp?

Here's another shout out for Slows BBQ Detroit!
Finger suckin' good.

ooh, that's tough. I'd have to say Arthur Bryant's in KC. But a close second is the Salt Lick outside Austin.

I'm not Midwest, Memphis, Texas, or Carolina BBQ joint close enough to have a famous one, but I have 2 damn fine local ones.

Blues BBQ in South Charleston, WV and Pig Out BBQ in Madison, WV. Both are local joints with good food for your belly. Blues has the pulled pork and collards I need, and Pig Out is a must-stop brisket platter any time I head down that way for work.

Smoque in Chicago is one of me new favorites, and my all-time is Mike Mills' 17th Street.

Honey One Barbecue, Chicago

Dinosaur BBQ in Harlem, NYC

curtis' in putney, vt.. best ribs anywhere and one friendly pig!!

luling's city market for their brisket

Everett & Jones, Oakland CA.

Still lovin' Phil's BBQ in San Diego

the best BBQ in DC is at Rocklands.

Another vote for Smoque in Chicago.

LC's in KC.

Hill Country NYC...Great brisket...a beef BBQ lover's paradise. Plus the Kreuz's sausages are a great treat.

Joey's BBQ in Chino, CA

Kansas City: Arthur Bryants... Austin: Rudy's

fat willy's (chicago)

Cuzzin Homer's in Temple (if it's still there)

Big W's in Wingdale, NY, at least locally.

Butler's BBQ in St. Petersburg FL

Wolfe's BBQ in Denver.

Dinosaur BBQ

Dinosaur, near my apartment

Weird, I seem to remember answering this before. No matter, Uncle Wally's Southern Cross...I choose you!

Mike Anderson's in Dallas, TX with an honorable mention to Cattle Call in Amarillo, TX

Daddy Sam's

Opie's in Spicewood, TX for the pork chop, Kreuz's for the prime rib, Louis Mueller for the brisket, and Salt Lick for the experience.

Baby Blues BBQ

Daisy May's

fat willy's rib shack - chicago

For sheer proximity, Dinosaur.

it depends on where I am I guess, Smokehouse or Rudys in San Antonio, Dino BBQ for upstate NY and Hill Country for Manhattan
(but hill country is easily as good as smokehouse or rudy's even though thats probably sacrilege)

Urban BBQ out here in maryland

In my little town? My back yard.

BBQ Review, in Cincinnati

anything off my grill in my backyad

Archibald's! - Tuscaloosa Alabama

Hill Country

Wallace's in Austell, GA

Dinosaur BBQ is my all time favorite barbecue joint.

My slowcooker

Bubba's in Avon, NC

Nearby, One Eyed Jack's in Lockport, NY. A bit further, Redbone's, Somerville, MA.

Peggy Sue's in Dallas.

Andy Nelson in Hunt Valley, MD. Yummmm!

Used to be the Spring House in Athens, GA but it closed in the mid 90's...shame.

Milt's in Detroit.

Kansas City: Arthur Bryants

Bad to the Bone in Orange County, CA

Country's BBQ, Columbus, GA

Russell street BBQ in Portland, OR

Absolutely impossible to decide, since there are so many wonderful varieties out there. But since New England is noticeably absent from the above list, I will throw out a great hang out in the Boston area:

Redbones in Davis Sq. (Cambridge; near Tufts)

Good 'cue; Pabst on tap; fun place.

Famous Dave's...I know it probably doesn't relate to other places, but it's all we've got here...

R.U.B. (ny)

If I can't count my backyard, then dinks pit BBQ in bartlesville ok

Mmmm. Sausage from Kreuz Market in Lockhart Texas.

Alman's in Fredericksburg, Virginia. The finest pulled pork BBQ sandwich with cole slaw I have ever tasted. I can eat three at a sitting. Oh man!

R.U.B

paradise bbq, milledgeville, ga

Green River Barbecue, Saluda, NC!

I'm going to have to say that Spooney's in Greenwood, MS is the best barbecue I've ever had. Spooney is a gregarious, verbose, suave man who opens his establishment and fires up his oil drum grill when the spirit moves him. He offers ribs, rib tips, chicken wings, hot sausage and bologne as available. It's a beautiful thing to make a drive-by and see smoke coming from his grill. The true magic is his sauce - made with love. Truly. As Spooney tells it. He moved from Mississippi to Kansas City with his wife and was in "love, love, love." Spooney got a job working at a bbq joint there and was loving life until his wife left him. He spent weeks crying alone in his house until one night the recipe for his sauce came to him. The sauce mixed with his tears and was perfection. He bandaged his heart with bbq, moved back home to Greenwood and opened his eponymous restaurant. It's good, good, good I tell ya.

Big Papas bison ribs in Littleton Colorado

Big Bad Wolf's House of Barbeque in Baltimore, MD! The best of everything but especially brisket.

smoque- in chicago

The Smoke House in Ossipee NH!

Daisy May's

Kreuz's

again, Uncle John's in Chicago

There is no other: The Renezvous in Memphis!

Valley Inn in Clarence, New York....can't be beat!!

Big Ed on Route 34 in Aberdeen, NJ

my own barbecue... done on my little webber

Jimmy Jacks -- bad name, good barbecue.

Beulah Land BBQ in Florida

Hungry Bull

oklahoma joe's in kansas city
williams smokehouse in houston

Wilson's in Tulsa, Oklahoma. "Need no teef to eat our beef, need no fork to eat our pork".

Williams Bros BBQ north of the loop in Houston, TX.

Ranger Legends BBQ .. right in Queens, NYC

DAS RIGHT, Queens, NYC got one of the best bbq joints around :) it's true, you just don't know!

This time I will say House Park Barbecue in Austin, Texas (I have quite a few favorites.)

I didn't grow up eating BBQ and when I first tried it, i wasn't impressed. Too many ketchupy sauces, sticky, gooey, smothered ick.
When I moved to Oakland, CA, it got more interesting. But I still have to give credit to Redbones in of all places Somerville, Massachusetts for teaching me the depth and breadth of barbecue. What it can be, what it is, vinegars, mustard and sausages as well as red sauces and pork and brisket. Serious flavor with huge glasses of iced tea or lemonade. I miss it (because I live on the left coast now). It's not where i expected to find excellent barbecue but it is really fine. I recommend it even if you're hard-core

And now I'm hungry!

Big Daddy's: Des Moines, IA

A little place on the beach

Fox Brothers in Atlanta, GA

My backyard. It's the only thing available here.

salt lick!

Johnny's Barbeque in Gainesville Georgia

County Line, Austin, TX

Dinosaur bbq - Syracuse, NY!

Blue Ribbon BBQ in Newton, near Boston

Wherever the Jew Krew meets to BBQ

Hoggy's BBQ in Ohio

The KC Rib Hut in Allentown, PA. Too bad it's long gone.

The stuff we make at home!

In Greater Hartford, Little Mark's BBQ in Vernon, CT(also Avon).
That said, there was a converted ice cream place that had worth the drive to Stratford, CT for a BBQ joint, that was run by an Englishman that fell in love with BBQ when he came to the US.
Sadly, for us, he moved his operation to NYC.

One more, 35 years ago, I remember getting great BBQ in Anchorage, Alaska of all places. Of course, at the time, there were probably more Texans in Alaska, than Alaskans.

no bbq joint in my area

Ridgewood BBQ in Bluff City TN. They had to carry me out of there I had eaten so much.

blackwater bbq in orlando

I'll say Dinosaur too, but I think that the quality isn't what it was when they first opened.

RUB

Big Fatty's BBQ in Burlington, VT is pretty good! (Especially for these parts.) And when I head from VT to Boston, a stop at City Flame in Manchester, NH is a requirement.

Rocklands in DC

Hog Heaven, Durham, NC

Black's in Lockhart

blue ribbon BBQ in Arlington, MA. (for easterners.)
Peggy Sue BBQ in Dallas, TX, for real real bbq.