I don't remember them. But for a while, there was a barbeque place on Hwy. 2 in the east end of Sultan, they had pretty good stuff as I recall. I was disappointed when the next time I drove out that way, they were closed up. Before the county extended the no shooting zone out nearly to Spada Lake, along Sultan Basin Road was a common place for me to shoot on public land. That's done for me now.
There was another smallish barbeque place in Burlington, WA, at the corner of N. Burlington Blvd. and Avon Ave. (both parts of Hwy 20). It was pretty good but it's long gone now; it was an ice cream parlor last time I was by. But barbeque that I like is not commonly found around here. So when I see a place I've never tried, I want to stop.
I've eaten at Famous Dave's barbeque three times in Missoula, MT and enjoyed the experiences. So when they opened up a Famous Dave's in Everett, WA, I saw that as a good thing. Yet I ate there about the same number of times and always left disappointed. I guess I wasn't the only one, because that location is now closed.
My favorite barbeque of all time was and is Chris and Pitts in so. Calif. They used to have something like 15 stores, now I think maybe only two or three remain.
I'll probably never get to eat there again.
Another Calif. favorite of mine, D'Elias Grinder sandwiches in Riverside. They've been in business since 1954 and are still at it. One reason, they bake their own bread, so every sandwich roll they use in the shop is baked same day. They have some kind of institutional contract for just bread; their baking crew comes in at 4:00 AM and finishes up in time for the restaurant to open.
