Red Hook BBQ Joint Named One Of The Best In America

RED HOOK, BROOKLYN — A famous Red Hook barbecue joint is one of the tastiest of its kind in America, according to a new ranking.

Hometown Bar-B-Que, on the corner of Van Brunt and Reed Street on the Brooklyn waterfront, made Thrillist's list of the best in the country.

The food and entertainment website put together a list (unranked) of the best 33 places to eat barbecue in America and published it last week.

Here's what they said about Hometown:

In the past decade New York City has become a bona fide barbecue destination, with smokey cuisine from North Carolina to Texas making appearances in the Big Apple. There’s plenty of amazing bites to be had, but Hometown is the restaurant that best combines authentic technique with a local melting pot mentality. Mentorship from Wayne Mueller drove pitmaster Billy Durney’s mastery of the beef rib (look to his lower ankle for a tattoo expressing his TX love), but what really sets him apart is incorporating ethnic flavors prevalent in his Red Hook neighborhood into dishes like the Jamaican jerk baby back ribs, Oaxacan wood-fired chicken, and Vietnamese hot wings.

Hometown joins authentic barbecue spots in hotbeds such as Texas, North Carolina and Alabama on the list.

And Hometown is trying to expand its empire in the neighborhood, though that growth has hit a few snags along the way.

Last year, restauranteur Billy Durney announced he would be opening a friend chicken joint just six blocks away from the barbecue spot.

But construction delays, after Hometown's construction expeditor was banned from working in the city for life, pushed back the opening of the fried chicken restaurant.

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