In the barbecue wonderland of Kansas City, there exists a place where smoke meets cheese in a harmony so perfect it might make you question everything you thought you knew about comfort food.
Welcome to Joe’s Kansas City BBQ.
Kansas boasts many treasures – endless prairies, quirky roadside attractions, and enough wind to power a small nation – but its crowning culinary achievement has to be its barbecue tradition, perfected to an art form that draws pilgrims from across the country.
And at the heart of this smoked meat mecca stands Joe’s KC, a barbecue institution that began life in, of all places, a gas station…