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The Best Barbecue in Indianapolis

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Indianapolis has exactly one place on the list so far: Bar-B-Q Heaven, honored by Eater.

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  1. The neon pig out front has been guiding people to this barbecue institution for longer than most of its regulars have been alive. Ronald Johnson opened the place as a kid to save up for a bicycle, using his grandmother's hickory-smoked recipe, and has never stopped. The ribs are the reason people drive in from across the state, following that sign like it's pointing somewhere sacred, which, in Indianapolis barbecue terms, it more or less is.


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The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

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    The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

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      Four fifths of the score is the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin Key outweighs a listicle. The last fifth is where it is: the ranked places to eat and things to do around it, and how safe the country is. When you sort by what's nearby, distance from you changes the order, never the score.

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        The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

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          Best Place Score

          The Best Place Score rates the area around a point, not any one place. The places are 60% of it: the best of what's within reach, weighed by distance. The setting is the other 40%: how life goes in that country (how people rate their own lives, how long and how well they live, how safe they are) and what it's like right there (the air, and the weather). If the score looks low, we probably haven't found enough critics out here yet.