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Blue Ribbon Bar-B-Q

1375 Washington St. (Elm St.) Send to Phone
NewtonMA 02465
617-332-2583
Southern-style barbecue in Newton? You bet your sweet patootie: Blue Ribbon's cooked-to-perfection ribs and more keep carnivores in the pink.

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Open

Lunch & Dinner daily

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Blue Ribbon Bar-B-Q is a Southern barbecue joint transplanted to leafy West Newton. The ramshackle space has both roadside spunk and Main Street coziness. Styrofoam serving containers, plastic utensils and stainless-steel sweet tea dispensers say it all about the eats to come. Naturally, hog is big here. Smoked low-and-slow until slipping off the bone, pulled pork has the right level of tarty sass; and Memphis-style ribs have sweet tang. Be sure to load up on sides like collards and beans, and note the presence of some urbane updates, like a barbecued burrito special that reels 'em in at lunch. And for dessert...what else? Pecan, sweet potato or Key lime pie.

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