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.