Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If the South is known for anything, it’s definitely barbecue — and a new ranking is spotlighting North Carolina’s very best.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the cathedrals of North Carolina barbecue has been named the best in the state by readers of Southern Living. In an annual ...

These ‘cue joints made the cut.

Located a little over an hour from Raleigh, North Carolina, Skylight Inn is more than a barbecue restaurant; it’s a landmark in Eastern North Carolina and beyond. Known to locals as Pete Jones' BBQ, ...

The edges of barbecue are expanding and evolving. In North Carolina, that means a way of life and a way of eating is changing. The barbecue restaurants that open today serve a menu blending regions, ...

Chris Prieto, owner of Prime Barbecue in Knightdale, helped organize the Pinehurst Barbecue Festival, returning for its fifth year Aug. 29-31. Robert Willett rwillett@newsobserver.com AI-generated ...

Don't miss Hamilton at DPAC, Pitbull and many major festivals in the Triangle this month.

The owners of a 79-year-old North Carolina barbecue restaurant where Billy Graham and famous country music singers loved to dine vow to reopen after a fire Thursday. Red Bridges Barbecue Lodge on East ...

A pair of historic North Carolina barbecue joints are snuffing out the smokehouses after a collective century and a half in business. Short Sugar’s in Reidsville and Kepley’s in High Point are the ...

Texas Monthly's Daniel Vaughn said Southern Living shouldn’t have included Texas restaurants in its best-of barbecue list. Vaughn proposes 17 non-Texas barbecue spots, five of them in North Carolina.

Steve Grady, pioneering whole hog pitmaster, died at 90 in Seven Springs. Grady co-founded Grady’s Barbecue in 1986, now NC’s last Black-owned hog joint. Grady entered national and state barbecue ...