We stopped over at Carolina BBQ for lunch yesterday on our way home...skipped breakfast, in fact, just so we could have one final hurrah at one of our favorite restaurants. We profiled Carolina BBQ way back when we started this blog, and it's in our Top 10. Now we remember why, and we even added some reasons to love this place.
We both had the rib and chicken combo this time around, which comes with 2 sides plus their enormous hush puppies. I've never seen any this big, and they're good too, although Duke's still gets top billing there. Doug got the greens and beans, and I got the fried okra and beans. We love their baked beans...just sweet enough and tasting of, well, beans. Doug says the greens are very good, and I liked the fried okra, but will probably try something else next time, as they have lots of sides to choose from. This was our first time trying the ribs, and these are maybe the meatiest, porkiest tasting ribs around. They don't have alot of smoke flavor, but they're super tender, just how we like them, and they arrive at the table covered in that sauce we raved about on our first visit, what they call their mild sauce. Add a little of the spicy vinegar sauce to the mix and you've really got something good. The chicken is just as good as we remembered it being, so even if you don't eat pork, go and try the chicken. It's very tender and juicy, with a little of that mild sauce covering the skin...delicious. Now usually this would be enough food for us, but we didn't finish the hush puppies just so we could try their fruit cobblers for dessert, which they specialize in, according to the menu. Doug had the peach and I tried the blackberry, and we both went for the vanilla ice cream kicker, because, why not, right? The only downside to trying the cobbler is that now, every time we go to Carolina Barbecue...and we will be back...we'll have to order it. It was THAT good. They were offering cherry and strawberry cobbler that day too, so next time, maybe I'll get the strawberry. The only difficulty is in limiting yourself to just one.
Carolina Barbecue
213 Salisbury Rd
Statesville, NC
carolinabar-b-q.com
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