The Best Barbecue in Seattle, by the Record
The best barbecue in Seattle, by the professional record: The New York Times, Seattle Met, and Eater have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Lil Red's comes out on top.
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Rank 1. Lil Red's
Barbecue
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Seattle Right Now
- Seattle Met Seattle’s 50 Best Restaurants
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants in Seattle
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Rank 2. Outsider BBQ
Texas-style Barbecue Beer Bar
A Turkish American tech worker turned pitmaster drives an hour a day just to source the right bread for his chopped beef sandwiches, which tells you everything about the commitment level here. This is a Texas-style BBQ beer bar in Fremont where the brisket, salt-and-pepper only, runs through the smoker for upward of twelve hours and comes out glossy and dark-edged. The sweet pickles in the potato salad are made in-house purely to be an ingredient, not a garnish.