N.J’s 32 greatest BBQ joints, ranked, for National Barbecue Month
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Ribs, pulled pork, brisket sandwiches, The Bearded One, Rt. 33, Monroe (Middlesex County) Peter Genovese I NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
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Nothing gets me going quite like the smell of smoked meats: ribs, brisket, chicken, you name it.
Sunday is National Barbecue Day, part of May’s National Barbecue Month, which honors barbecue in general (burgers and dogs on the grill, etc.), but here we’re talking traditional Southern barbecue, one of my three desert island foods, along with doughnuts and wings.
Back in 2015, I proclaimed that New Jersey is a barbecue wasteland. The outlook has improved slightly since then; there’s great barbecue in New Jersey, you just have to know where to look.
The 50 N.J. dishes you need to eat in 2021
Updated Jan 01, 2021;
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The pandemic laid waste to New Jersey restaurants and our dining habits in 2020, but a guy’s gotta eat, right?
Actually, make that two guys, as Jeremy Schneider and Pete Genovese, in our thankless duties as food writers (eat everything in sight, let the company pay for it) ate our way around the state last year, masks and forks at the ready.
Here’s a list of the 50 New Jersey dishes you must try in 2021, based on the 25 best dishes we each tried in 2020. Pete did similar lists based on the best items he ate in 2017, 2018 and 2019. The only difference with this one is Jeremy is joining in on the fun.