Over the Christmas break, my son and I took a road trip to watch LSU play Oklahoma in the SEC Championship game in Atlanta. Every good road trip involves some BBQ and we stopped for dinner in Lexington, NC at the Lexington BBQ. North Carolina is famous for pork BBQ and The Lexington BBQ is known Nationwide for it’s food. “Known by the locals as the “Honeymonk” or “The Monk,” Lexington Barbecue was established in 1962 by Wayne Monk. Since its establishment, the white building on the hill has grown from a small cafe to a nationally known barbecue restaurant.
Our success is due to believing in quality customer service and staying with the true barbecue cooking tradition, meaning cooking with wood, not gas. We only cook pork shoulders and we only cook it over oak or hickory coals. We cook fresh everyday. We believe that true barbecue has different flavors and different cuts.” The place was very small and homey and the food was great. The slaw was red and something that I have never seen before. Apparently, it is a thing.
There is one in every crowd.
We found a BBQ place right at Olympic park that was in walking distance to the hotel. Twin Smokers BBQ. Their moto is Eat BBQ, drink bourbon. Done and done.
Then there was the game. The stadium was the coolest place I have ever been. It also felt like a home game for LSU which was nice.
Joe killed them.
We all know how this ends. Geux Tigers.
