In 2024, in our ongoing quest to rank everything that has anything to do with Alabama barbecue – from the tastiest ribs and the top pulled pork sandwiches to the best barbecue restaurants and the old barbecue joints we miss the most – we put together our well-researched but totally subjective list of the 5 best barbecue cities in Alabama.
Now, we have taken that idea a step further and crunched the numbers to find the undisputed No. 1 barbecue city in the state.
AL.com analyzed data on more than 400 barbecue restaurants across every corner of Alabama, looking at Google reviews, accolades and data points on restaurants per capita and per square mile to come up with the ultimate, definitive answer to that age-old question: What is the Barbecue Capital of Alabama?…