If you drove past Clyde Cooper’s Barbeque on Davie Street in Raleigh without knowing what it was, you might not stop, and that would be one of the great mistakes of your culinary life.
The exterior doesn’t shout.
It doesn’t have a flashy sign or a dramatic facade or a line of people out front taking photos of their food before they eat it.
What it has is a red awning, a neon “BBQ” sign glowing in the window, a chalkboard listing the hours, and a golden pig statue standing on the sidewalk with the calm, confident energy of someone who has absolutely nothing to prove…