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Oakhurst location makes ‘Top 100 Barbecue Spots’ in America, according to Yelp
By Michael Bartiromo,
2024-05-09
(NEXSTAR) – A barbeque restaurant in Oakhurst has made Yelp’s “Top 100 Barbecue Spots” in the country, based largely on the ratings and reviews of its online community.
Smokehouse 41, on Highway 41 at Hartwell Road in Oakhurst, is number 60 on the list. Also within driving distance, PorkChop & Bubba’s BBQ in Bakersfield ranked 25 on the top 100 list.
Perhaps as expected, many of this year’s entries are located in the South, though a fair share are scattered throughout the rest of the country. Texas, however, boasted the most “top” barbecue joints in Yelp’s rankings.
The best-reviewed restaurant in the whole country, meanwhile, was determined by Yelp to be Wright’s Barbecue, an Arkansas joint with four locations in the northwest corner of the state.
“I have not had anything from this place that wasn’t top tier food,” one local Yelp user wrote in a recent five-star review.
Buckboard’s Barbecue & Brew – El Cajon, California
Little Miss BBQ-Sunnyslope – Phoenix, Arizona
Heritage Barbecue – San Juan Capistrano, California
Mad Jack’s Mountaintop Barbecue – Cloudcroft, New Mexico
Federal Hill Smokehouse – Erie, Pennsylvania
Watson’s BBQ – Tucumcari, New Mexico
PorChop & Bubba’s BBQ – Bakersfield, California
In compiling its 2024 list of the “Top 100 Barbecue Spots,” Yelp’s team limited its rankings to restaurants within the platform’s “barbecue” category, concentrating on those with reviews that frequently mentioned the word “barbecue” specifically.
These eateries were then ranked based on criteria including each restaurant’s Yelp ratings and volume of reviews. Yelp’s analysts also limited the number of list entries per state to 12 for purposes of “geographic diversity,” a spokesperson for Yelp confirmed to Nexstar.
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