Mallard Creek BBQ Returns After Hiatus Due To Covid
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The pandemic caused lots of annual events locally to go on hiatus, but now one of the biggest and most popular BBQ’s in our area is back. The Mallard Creek BBQ is back after a three year break.
According to WCCB, the 91st Mallard Creek BBQ will be this Thursday at Mallard Creek Presbyterian Community House. Volunteers get up crazy early to work the BBQ. They’ll cook 7,500 pounds of pork and 1,400 gallons of Brunswick Stew.
Organizers say that this year they’ll only have drive-thru and carry out available. Service starts at 10 a.m. and goes until the food is sold out. Cash and credit cards are excepted, but no debit cards.
You can see the menu and get the address and more info here. I recommend you go early and try and beat the crowd.
The 15 Best Charlotte North Carolina BBQ Restaurants
Here in North Carolina, we love our barbeque. And we do it well if I may so so myself. There is no shortage of fantastic restaurants across the state and the Queen City is no exception to that. But if you only can eat at one which should you choose? While I have my favorite (and it didn’t make this list near the top), I decided to turn to the public for their thoughts on the matter. A quick search on TripAdvisor led me to a list of 30 Charlotte BBQ restaurants. It included chains, multiple locations of some, the heavy hitters, and some I hadn’t heard of before. For this list, I took the top 15 restaurants (combining anywhere that had multiple locations).
Trip Advisor compiles these rankings based on average rating and number of reviews. Therefore you will see a couple of places that are ranked higher with a slightly lower rating. This means they probably had a higher number of higher-rated reviews. I have to say for the most part I do agree with this list the top 3 didn’t surprise me at all and I feel could have been ranked in any order. What’s your favorite of the many Charlotte BBQ restaurants?
Melany Myers is a Gastonia native and has spent most of her life here in North Carolina. Mel has worked in radio for over 20 years, many of which she spent co-hosting morning shows in Charlotte, NC, and Columbia, SC. Mel loves 80’s music, going to concerts, cooking, and eating! She is always writing about random news stories that really make you wonder, “what in the world?!” She also writes about rock music and human-interest content.
