Kansas City Barbecue: Can't Miss BBQ Joints
The legend that is Kansas City barbecue began in the early 1900s in an old trolley barn at 19th and Highland. His name was Henry Perry who created an aroma that attracted daily crowds to the back of the barn, where he slow-smoked ribs and sold them, wrapped in newspaper, for 25-cents a slab.
Kansas Citians couldn’t get enough of it.
“The beauty of Kansas City barbecue,” says Carolyn Wells, executive director of the Kansas City Barbecue Society, “is that you can ask ten different people to define Kansas City barbecue and you get ten different answers and they are all correct.”
That’s because in the nearly 100 barbecue joints smoking in Kansas City, there is a melding of flavors and styles from across the country that result in award-winning, mouth-watering, tummy-stuffing flavors that defy conventional adjectives.
So dive in and start experiencing Kansas City's world-famous barbecue.
Can't Miss BBQ Joints
Arthur Bryant's Barbecue
Region: Downtown
Phone: (816) 231-1123
Visit WebsiteChar Bar Smoked Meats & Amusements
Region: Midtown
Phone: (816) 389-8600
Visit WebsiteFiorella’s Jack Stack Barbecue - Plaza
Region: Country Club Plaza, Midtown
Phone: (816) 531-7427
Visit WebsiteFiorella's Jack Stack Barbecue - Lee's Summit
Region: South KC, East
Phone: (816) 621-7427
Visit WebsiteFiorella's Jack Stack Barbecue - Martin City
Region: South KC
Phone: (816) 942-9141
Visit WebsiteFiorella's Jack Stack Barbecue - Overland Park
Region: Kansas, Overland Park, Johnson County/South
Phone: (913) 385-7427
Visit WebsiteFiorella's Jack Stack Barbecue at the Freight House
Region: Crown Center, Crossroads, Downtown
Phone: (816) 472-7427
Visit WebsiteGates Bar-B-Q - Downtown
Region: Downtown
Phone: (816) 483-3880
Visit WebsiteGates Bar-B-Q - Leawood
Region: Johnson County/South, Kansas
Phone: (913) 383-1752
Visit WebsiteGates Bar-B-Q - Midtown
Region: Midtown
Phone: (816) 753-0828
Visit WebsiteGates Bar-B-Q - Southeast
Region: Midtown
Phone: (816) 531-7522
Visit WebsiteJoe's Kansas City Bar-B-Que
Region: Kansas
Phone: (913) 722-3366
Visit WebsiteLocal Pig & Pigwich
Region: River Market, Downtown
Phone: (816) 200-1639
Visit WebsiteQ39 Restaurant
Region: West 39th St, Midtown
Phone: (816) 255-3753
Visit WebsiteQ39 South
Region: Overland Park, Johnson County/South, Kansas
Phone: (913) 951-4500
Visit WebsiteGates Bar-B-Q - East
Region: East
Phone: (816) 383-1752
Visit WebsiteBrobecks Barbecue
Region: Overland Park, Johnson County/South, Kansas
Phone: (913) 901-9700
Visit WebsiteSmokehouse Barbecue - Independence
Region: East
Phone: (816) 795-5555
Visit WebsiteSmokehouse Barbecue - Gladstone
Region: Northland
Phone: (816) 454-4500
Visit WebsiteSmokehouse Barbecue - Zona Rosa
Region: Northland
Phone: (816) 587-3337
Visit WebsiteFiorella's Jack Stack Barbecue - Lenexa
Region: Johnson County/South, Kansas
Phone: (913) 382-4227
Visit WebsiteSlaps BBQ
Region: Kansas, Kansas City, Kansas
Phone: (913) 213-3736
Visit WebsiteMeat Mitch Barbecue
Region: Johnson County/South, Kansas
Phone: (913) 363-6328
Visit WebsiteOurHouseKC
Region: Midtown, West 39th St
Phone: (816) 442-8569
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