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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Food Network has topped the best barbecue restaurant in every state and an area favourite earned the highest honor for the Sunshine State.
Jenkins Quality Barbecue, which has 3 areas in Jacksonville, was named the best in Florida on Food Network’s “50 States of Barbecue.”
The secret “that keeps everyone hooked” on Jenkins is the sauce and Food Network agrees:
“Since 1957, Jenkins Quality Barbecue has scorched palates with its unique hot mustard sauce, slathered across chickens, ribs and sliced or chopped pork that is smoked with oak in open brick pits. Everything here is also served with some sort of bread. Slabs of ribs and half-chickens are placed atop slices of white bread, pork is nestled inside seeded buns. That starchy component cools the tongue from the near-numbing heat of the vibrant yellow sauce.”
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This isn’t the one nationwide recognition Jenkins has obtained. In October, the restaurant made Southern Living’s “The South’s Top 50 Barbecue Joints.” Southern Soul Barbecue in St. Simons Island also made that list.
To view the best barbecue spots in all 50 states as ranked by Food Network, click here.
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