🔥 Best BBQ in San Diego

STP Bar-N-Grill — Shannon and Tina's Place — is a Clairemont burger-and-barbecue joint styled like a muscle-car garage. Burgers are half-pound, hand-pattied Angus; the barbecue runs cold-smoked with h...

San Diego's BBQ benchmark since 1998 — baby back ribs that built a loyal following, the Mr. Pig sandwich that shows up on best-of lists, and the kind of line that tells you the recipe hasn't changed. ...

Chef Andy Harris's Texas-meets-Argentine BBQ — brisket smoked overnight, an asado board program, and a dining yard that gave North Park its reference BBQ room. One of SD's defining BBQ operations with...

Clairemont's tableside-charcoal Korean BBQ — a serious banchan spread, charcoal (not gas) grills built into every table, and a reputation as SD's Korean BBQ reference for two decades. The Clairemont d...

Convoy's Korean BBQ — tableside grills, marinated short rib, a banchan program that feeds the table before you order, and an all-you-can-eat format that Convoy's KBBQ regulars use as a reliable defaul...

Downtown's Kansas City Barbeque since 1984 — the bar where the Top Gun piano scene was filmed, with memorabilia on every wall, a serious Kansas City-style BBQ menu, and a Market St location that is on...

Convoy's Sam Woo BBQ — the multi-state Cantonese-BBQ brand's SD location, with roast duck and char siu hanging in the window, and a format that the SD Cantonese community has protected as one of the d...

Smokin J's BBQ serves wood-smoked barbecue from a Fourth Ave address downtown. The kitchen works the classic smokehouse repertoire of smoked meats and Southern sides. It's a casual barbecue stop for p...

College Area's 24-hour Korean BBQ — tableside grilling, soondubu jjigae, banchan program, and a College Area crowd that fills the El Cajon Blvd dining room late into the morning. An SD 24-hour Korean ...