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A retired co-worker from GA now living in FL sent me this link.. He's a BBQ fanatic...
He said it's great BBQ but in a really shady part of town... He did not tell me about the other places in the article..
House of Prayer Church & Restaurant, 2445 NW 62nd St.; 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Thursday, 11:30 a.m.-11 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday; 305-691-5577.
Anyone ever been there ?
http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/story/1056626.html
On weekend evenings, a drive down Northwest 22nd Avenue beginning at 119th Street is a Deep South barbecue symphony. Old smokers sit outside antique churches, homes and forgotten buildings, their smoky psalms winding toward the firmament.
This pocket of Miami-Dade is jeweled with plaza pits, barbecue rigs and shade-tree operations based on family recipes as secret as any Da Vinci code. Men and women with molasses-dipped Southern drawls fellowship over flesh that falls off bones and lands indelibly on your memory. Here's a taste.
HOUSE OF PRAYER
Some of these barbecue venues recall Miami history. Just ask Bishop Albert Watson Jr. of House of Prayer.
''Selling barbecue is how we were able to purchase a church building at a time when it was very difficult for black churches to get loans from banks,'' says Watson, whose family operation has been going since 1953.
``We were serving barbecue when there were colored-only water fountains and when they were just building the I-95.''
On Sunday evenings, sturdy, feathered-hatted women and hand-clapping little girls stand outside the subdued blue and white building. Inside, men young and old gather at small dining tables and regulars relay their takeout orders through a grilled window.
''Let me get a small end!'' After about 20 minutes, a small paper bag of barbecued ribs arrives soaked in moppin' sauce, turning two slices of white bread into a Thanksgiving-like stuffing. (It's $8 for the small ends -- $27 for a whole rack of them -- which clients say are leaner than the regular ribs.)
There's hot and mild. The vinegary, red-speckled, Buffalo-style sauce -- from a recipe that originated with Bishop Watson's ''Uncle Preacher'' -- explodes with tang.
House of Prayer, which is near the Martin Luther King Building, also serves soul food ($2-$3) including macaroni and cheese, collard greens and rice and pigeon peas.
SAINT CITY
On Saturday afternoon, crunk music waltzes passed the Dijon-mustard-colored church building at Northwest 22nd Avenue and 93rd Street. Inside the glistening, gated, black-tar property is Saint City Coffee Shop, also known as Real Tasty BBQ.
Owner Bishop James Jenkins and his wife, Helen, have been serving sin-tender barbecue for 35 years. Supple rib slabs are lathered in a sweet, smoky sauce that perfumes your fingers long after you've licked them clean. Walk up to the takeout window and place your order, most likely with Sistah Cobbs.
The regular rib sandwich ($6), accompanied by two white Holsum bread slices, can comfortably serve two. A barbecued half-chicken sandwich is the same price. Slabs start at $15. Sides (available weekends only) include a 12-ounce foam cup of macaroni and cheese ($3) that rewards you with tangy cheese shards as you wade through the cream Cheddar shells. The bread pudding ($2.50), served in a zip-top plastic bag, is dense with raisins.
While it's always best to quaff beer with barbecue, the classic local libation is super-sweet Ritz soda -- $1 in grape, black cherry or cola.
MAMA LUCY'S
On weekend evenings, Hummers and dilapidated pickups fumble around the minuscule parking lot at Mama Lucy's All Pro Ribs like pieces of a puzzle. Jack Homes opened the venue 15 years ago in tribute to his late grandmother, Lucy Palmer, a Brunswick, Ga., native, long-time Miami-Dade school bus driver and author of the recipes.
Tommy takes your order at the outside window and hands you a receipt that you take to the next window, where Ace and Rod melodically cut meat and pour sauce amid the aged smokers, referring to regular customers by first name.
A cognac-like aroma fills the air as customers wait patiently for the full slab ($21.50), half slab ($13.50) or rib sandwich ($7). The brown-sugar-sweet barbecue is drenched in a rich, pepper-flecked sauce with a long, allspice finish. Dessert is a $2 foam bowl of cobbler -- a summer peach porridge.
VII SPORTS CLUB
A Saturday afternoon stop at VII Sports Club is like a trip to a Mississippi juke joint, and co-owner Clarence Cobb tends to his pork slabs like B.B. King tends to Lucille. The venue is commonly known as 'the bus drivers' barbecue'' because Cobb and his partners are retired Miami-Dade bus drivers.
''This is the best barbecue in town,'' says Ishmell Jones, who has patronizing VII almost since it opened in 1990. ``My mama skipped the bottle and just gave me this barbecue.''
The meat is crisp on the outside, juicy on the inside, and the creamy sauce tastes like Dijon mustard mixed with orange blossom honey. Regulars order the rib sandwich ($7) or half slab ($13). The simply made sweet potato pie, glossy on top and chunky inside, is a bargain at $2 a slice or $8 a pie.
SKEBO'S KITCHEN
Bareback barbecue is the theme at Skebo's Kitchen, located in the parking lot of Club Lexx, the former Club Rolexx strip joint near Miami Dade College's North Campus. ''Women draw crowds,'' says owner Skebo Jenkins, who runs the barbecue stand with head chef Johnny ''Sugar Ray Jay'' Floyd and sous chef Ron Strozier.
On a Friday evening, chicken leg quarters and pork ribs straddle weathered grills as Club Lexx ladies pop in and out of the building. The candylike caramelized skin on the chicken is enhanced by a decadent honey-mustard barbecue sauce that's an amalgam of family recipes reflecting the cooks' Thomasville and Douglas, Ga., roots.
The chicken sandwich is $7; add $3 and you get two sides. Ribs range from $7 for a sandwich to $30 for a full slab.
Jenkins, whose wife runs the Club Lexx kitchen, opened Skebo's 2 ½ years ago, but he, Strozier and Sugar Ray Jay say they've operated barbecue pits throughout the Northwest area.
''A guaranteed money maker in black neighborhoods is barbecue,'' says Larry Washington, a regular. ``If you're looking for good barbecue, just ask church folk and follow the smoke.''
He said it's great BBQ but in a really shady part of town... He did not tell me about the other places in the article..
House of Prayer Church & Restaurant, 2445 NW 62nd St.; 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Thursday, 11:30 a.m.-11 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday; 305-691-5577.
Anyone ever been there ?
http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/story/1056626.html
On weekend evenings, a drive down Northwest 22nd Avenue beginning at 119th Street is a Deep South barbecue symphony. Old smokers sit outside antique churches, homes and forgotten buildings, their smoky psalms winding toward the firmament.
This pocket of Miami-Dade is jeweled with plaza pits, barbecue rigs and shade-tree operations based on family recipes as secret as any Da Vinci code. Men and women with molasses-dipped Southern drawls fellowship over flesh that falls off bones and lands indelibly on your memory. Here's a taste.
HOUSE OF PRAYER
Some of these barbecue venues recall Miami history. Just ask Bishop Albert Watson Jr. of House of Prayer.
''Selling barbecue is how we were able to purchase a church building at a time when it was very difficult for black churches to get loans from banks,'' says Watson, whose family operation has been going since 1953.
``We were serving barbecue when there were colored-only water fountains and when they were just building the I-95.''
On Sunday evenings, sturdy, feathered-hatted women and hand-clapping little girls stand outside the subdued blue and white building. Inside, men young and old gather at small dining tables and regulars relay their takeout orders through a grilled window.
''Let me get a small end!'' After about 20 minutes, a small paper bag of barbecued ribs arrives soaked in moppin' sauce, turning two slices of white bread into a Thanksgiving-like stuffing. (It's $8 for the small ends -- $27 for a whole rack of them -- which clients say are leaner than the regular ribs.)
There's hot and mild. The vinegary, red-speckled, Buffalo-style sauce -- from a recipe that originated with Bishop Watson's ''Uncle Preacher'' -- explodes with tang.
House of Prayer, which is near the Martin Luther King Building, also serves soul food ($2-$3) including macaroni and cheese, collard greens and rice and pigeon peas.
SAINT CITY
On Saturday afternoon, crunk music waltzes passed the Dijon-mustard-colored church building at Northwest 22nd Avenue and 93rd Street. Inside the glistening, gated, black-tar property is Saint City Coffee Shop, also known as Real Tasty BBQ.
Owner Bishop James Jenkins and his wife, Helen, have been serving sin-tender barbecue for 35 years. Supple rib slabs are lathered in a sweet, smoky sauce that perfumes your fingers long after you've licked them clean. Walk up to the takeout window and place your order, most likely with Sistah Cobbs.
The regular rib sandwich ($6), accompanied by two white Holsum bread slices, can comfortably serve two. A barbecued half-chicken sandwich is the same price. Slabs start at $15. Sides (available weekends only) include a 12-ounce foam cup of macaroni and cheese ($3) that rewards you with tangy cheese shards as you wade through the cream Cheddar shells. The bread pudding ($2.50), served in a zip-top plastic bag, is dense with raisins.
While it's always best to quaff beer with barbecue, the classic local libation is super-sweet Ritz soda -- $1 in grape, black cherry or cola.
MAMA LUCY'S
On weekend evenings, Hummers and dilapidated pickups fumble around the minuscule parking lot at Mama Lucy's All Pro Ribs like pieces of a puzzle. Jack Homes opened the venue 15 years ago in tribute to his late grandmother, Lucy Palmer, a Brunswick, Ga., native, long-time Miami-Dade school bus driver and author of the recipes.
Tommy takes your order at the outside window and hands you a receipt that you take to the next window, where Ace and Rod melodically cut meat and pour sauce amid the aged smokers, referring to regular customers by first name.
A cognac-like aroma fills the air as customers wait patiently for the full slab ($21.50), half slab ($13.50) or rib sandwich ($7). The brown-sugar-sweet barbecue is drenched in a rich, pepper-flecked sauce with a long, allspice finish. Dessert is a $2 foam bowl of cobbler -- a summer peach porridge.
VII SPORTS CLUB
A Saturday afternoon stop at VII Sports Club is like a trip to a Mississippi juke joint, and co-owner Clarence Cobb tends to his pork slabs like B.B. King tends to Lucille. The venue is commonly known as 'the bus drivers' barbecue'' because Cobb and his partners are retired Miami-Dade bus drivers.
''This is the best barbecue in town,'' says Ishmell Jones, who has patronizing VII almost since it opened in 1990. ``My mama skipped the bottle and just gave me this barbecue.''
The meat is crisp on the outside, juicy on the inside, and the creamy sauce tastes like Dijon mustard mixed with orange blossom honey. Regulars order the rib sandwich ($7) or half slab ($13). The simply made sweet potato pie, glossy on top and chunky inside, is a bargain at $2 a slice or $8 a pie.
SKEBO'S KITCHEN
Bareback barbecue is the theme at Skebo's Kitchen, located in the parking lot of Club Lexx, the former Club Rolexx strip joint near Miami Dade College's North Campus. ''Women draw crowds,'' says owner Skebo Jenkins, who runs the barbecue stand with head chef Johnny ''Sugar Ray Jay'' Floyd and sous chef Ron Strozier.
On a Friday evening, chicken leg quarters and pork ribs straddle weathered grills as Club Lexx ladies pop in and out of the building. The candylike caramelized skin on the chicken is enhanced by a decadent honey-mustard barbecue sauce that's an amalgam of family recipes reflecting the cooks' Thomasville and Douglas, Ga., roots.
The chicken sandwich is $7; add $3 and you get two sides. Ribs range from $7 for a sandwich to $30 for a full slab.
Jenkins, whose wife runs the Club Lexx kitchen, opened Skebo's 2 ½ years ago, but he, Strozier and Sugar Ray Jay say they've operated barbecue pits throughout the Northwest area.
''A guaranteed money maker in black neighborhoods is barbecue,'' says Larry Washington, a regular. ``If you're looking for good barbecue, just ask church folk and follow the smoke.''
