I’ve eaten a lot of barbecue in my time reviewing restaurants in the Chattahoochee Valley. When I started these food reviews in 2022, it was just going to be a series of stories exclusively on the BBQ restaurants in the Columbus area and what makes each one unique.
However, we scrapped that idea after we decided to review a variety of restaurants. My cholesterol levels probably thanked me for that.
While in my truck with Ledger-Enquirer visual journalist Mike Haskey, he told me about some barbecue restaurants in Phenix City. Most of those I’ve never eaten at, including Mike & Ed’s Bar-B-Que…