A road trip around the American south led Sam Evans and Shauna Guinn to open a BBQ restaurant in the UK in homage. Here are their favourite US smokers
We fell in love with the southern states and their attitude to food and gatherings three years ago, when we quit our long-standing careers in London and embarked on a road trip across the US, eating at every barbecue joint we could afford. When we returned to the UK we knew we had to share what we had discovered. Our first kitchen takeover was a weekly pop-up in a backstreet pub in Cardiff. We went on to win the BBC Food & Farming Best Street Food award in 2015, and this year we opened our first permanent restaurant, Hang Fire Southern Kitchen in Barry, south Wales.
Counting down to our number one favourite, here is our hit parade of southern smokehouses …
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