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Best Barbecue

1. Hendricks BBQ

7.1
1200 S. Main St, St. Charles, MO
New American Restaurant · Saint Charles · 53 tips and reviews

Riverfront TimesRiverfront Times: Barbecue, smoked over apple and hickory wood, includes baby-back and St. Louis-cut spare ribs, beef brisket, pulled pork, turkey and sausage. http://bit.ly/13QI3Gc

2. Lil Mickey's Memphis Barbeque

7.4
1020 Cave Springs Blvd, Saint Peters, MO
BBQ Joint · Cloverleaf Park West · 18 tips and reviews

Riverfront TimesRiverfront Times: The ribs and pulled pork are excellent with a pure flavor of pig and smoke, as is the chopped beef brisket and chicken, both tenderer and tastier, than smoking often renders them.http://bit.ly/15853TD

3. Pappy's Smokehouse

9.1
3106 Olive St (btwn N Compton & N Ewing Ave), St Louis, MO
BBQ Joint · Midtown · 283 tips and reviews

Riverfront TimesRiverfront Times: Every time you return for a bite of the ribs or any of the other meats smoked over apple or cherry woods, you have that rarest of sensations: It's even better than you remembered.http://bit.ly/130WEfv

4. PM BBQ

103 Chesterfield Towne Ctr, Chesterfield, MO
BBQ Joint · 23 tips and reviews

Riverfront TimesRiverfront Times: The brisket, smoked for 12 hours, is so tender that the restaurant isn't afraid to slice it a bit on the thick side. Just as delicious is the moist, peppery smoked half-chicken. http://bit.ly/163UxcZ

5. 17th Street Bar & Grill

1711 W Highway 50, O Fallon, IL
American Restaurant · 17 tips and reviews

Riverfront TimesRiverfront Times: The ribs are the standout here, so tender & flavorful with smoke, tangy sauce and a secret spice rub that Food Network star Michael Symon called it the best pork he'd ever eaten. http://bit.ly/130X2e0

Sugarfire Smoke House is one of Best Barbecue.

6. Sugarfire Smoke House

8.7
9200 Olive Blvd, Olivette, MO
BBQ Joint · 111 tips and reviews

Riverfront TimesRiverfront Times: Sugarfire offers smoked baby-back ribs, pulled pork, brisket, turkey breast and sausage. The meaty ribs and the brisket are standouts. http://bit.ly/11sLkes

7. Bogart's Smokehouse

9.1
1627 S 9th St (at Lafayette Ave.), St Louis, MO
BBQ Joint · Soulard · 107 tips and reviews

Riverfront TimesRiverfront Times: Witness ribs finished with an apricot glaze, which the kitchen caramelizes with a propane torch, & prime rib, long vanquished to the special Sunday, are here smoked with onions. http://bit.ly/15tN9IU