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The Best Restaurant Guides for Barbecue Lovers and More

barbecue The web has a lot of great restaurant guides. If you're looking for a place just around town or when you're on the road, there are a lot of handy resources to tip you off on where to go, and where not to go. You should also check out the popular food message boards. They usually have sections devoted to restaurant discussions. And they're often up to date on who got cited by the health board and who lost their chef. Here are the restaurant guides I use.

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Texas

Touring the Texas Barbecue Belt. Meathead's extensive guide to barbecue in and around Austin.

Texas BBQ Review.

Texas BBQ Trail. Some of the best Austin area BBQ joints.

Texas Wine Trail.

Chicago

LTH Forum. Chicago-centric, this very lively and active board knows where all the best restaurants are, especially the little neighborhood joints. They also discuss other cities as well as cooking. Gary Wiviott, maestro of the Weber Smokey Mountain was a founder and hangs out there.

Carolinas

Barbecue Is A Noun.

SCBBQ. A pretty complete list of barbecue joints in South Carolina has grown to include other states.

Gamecock Central. A big list of barbecue joints in South Carolina has grown to include a number of other states.

Discover South Carolina. A website with a guide to all sorts of restaurants in SC has a nice list of barbecue joints.

Carolina BBQ Joints. Jim Morgan runs this fan site for Carolina BBQ. The message board has a lot of good info.

North Carolina Barbecue Society. They have a Barbecue Trail that includes most of the important places to see and taste including a map, address and phone, and background info. It's all here.

North Carolina Barbecue Joints.

Rest of the US

Atlanta Restaurants.

Barbecue Fun. Barbecue joints in 'bama.

BBQ Porch.

Dixie Dining.

Epicurious. The Best Eats section is good and the BBQ section is also helpful.Roadfood. Although Roadfood is ostensibly focused on inexpensive restaurants on the highways and byways, the discussions on this message board often include restaurants in cities as well as recipes. They have a section on BBQ and it contains a lot of great joints. Some good tips. Easy to use.

Florida Barbecue Association.

Friends Eat

Pigtrip. Barbecue joints in Boston.

Yelp

Zagat. The Zagat guides are among the most respected in the world. But you've got to pay to see the entire database. There are bits and pieces available for free online, but to get the complete reviews and to add your reviews, fork it over.

Other countries

Eat My Town. Honest restaurant, bar, pub and hotel reviews in England.

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