Carolina BBQ Festival 2026: What to Expect in Year 5

Carolina BBQ Festival logo. Celebrating the heritage of whole hog barbecue since 2022

If you’re a barbecue lover in the Carolinas, there’s one date you’ll want to circle on your 2026 calendar: April 17–18. That’s when the Carolina BBQ Festival returns to Victoria Yards in Uptown Charlotte for its fifth year.

2025 Carolina BBQ Festival’s Best Bites

2025 Carolina BBQ Festival Pitmasters

The 2025 Carolina BBQ Festival was Charlotte’s biggest celebration of barbecue traditions yet. From an expanded schedule and wide-ranging menu to the assembled crowds and a larger geographic footprint of participating pitmasters, the event revealed that the Carolinas’ love is burning brightly for meat cooked over live fire. “Whether you are a backyard cook or […]

Farm BBQ: Bringing Carolina BBQ to Maryland

Will tends the Farm BBQ smoker

A Maryland barbecue venture is redefining what it means to combine tradition, community, and sustainability. As a result, Farm BBQ not only produces great food, it fuels agritourism opportunities in the semi-rural community of Fallston, MD. Get the complete Farm BBQ story in our Low & Slow Barbecue Show interview. Keep reading for a closer […]

The Low & Slow Show Review: Jim ‘N Nick’s Community Bar-B-Q in Hickory

Jim 'N Nick's Community Bar-B-Q Menu and BBQ sauce.

The Hickory Metro’s newest barbecue restaurant opened in November. Since then, I’ve driven past Jim ‘N Nick’s Community Bar-B-Q to visit a favorite, independent BBQ joint up the road a few times. The parking lot always seems full. Social media marks are high. However, it took a winter storm, a celebration, and a whim to […]

Carolina BBQ Festival 2025 Guide: Pitmasters #BBQforaCause

Carolina BBQ Festival 2025  celebrates whole hog barbecue and the Carolinas’ rich barbecue traditions while supporting charitable causes providing food relief and comfort to neighbors in their times of greatest need: Operation BBQ Relief and Hungry Heroes. The 2025 festival dates are April 4-5 at Victoria Yards in Charlotte. Part of the Charlotte Shout for the […]

A BBQ Year in Review: Low & Slow in 2024

North Carolina in the BBQ smoker

The Low & Slow Barbecue Show attacked the 2024 BBQ year with a plan for more, more, and more. On all fronts, the efforts were a success. From a 42-week run of new podcasts every Thursday to launching a YouTube channel and a newsletter, this year, we put a bigger spotlight on Carolina barbecue, pitmasters, […]

Barbecue Bros Guide You to Authentic BBQ

Barbecue Bros established in 2012.

Whether you’re a dedicated barbecue aficionado or a casual foodie, the Barbecue Bros blog is a go-to guide for exploring the best — and avoiding the worst — in barbecue. Launched by three friends in 2012, the Barbecue Bros blog offers readers a taste of authentic barbecue experiences, especially in North Carolina but also in […]

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