South Carolina BBQ: Restaurants, Recipes, Guides & Tools
Explore the SC BBQ Trail, find barbecue across South Carolina, plan a road trip, cook at home, and learn the traditions that make the state’s barbecue its own.
Find South Carolina BBQ
Use our interactive map to find barbecue restaurants across South Carolina, browse places by city, or follow our road-trip guides as you travel the SC BBQ Trail.
Cook at Home
Start with South Carolina barbecue recipes, then use our calculators, planners, and practical guides to make the cook easier from prep through serving.
Cook South Carolina Favorites
Make pulled pork, hash, sauces, sides, and other recipes rooted in South Carolina barbecue traditions.
Plan the Cook
Use calculators, planners, charts, and timelines for brisket, pork, turkey, brining, serving quantities, and more.
Learn the How-To
Get practical help with smokers, choosing cuts, holding and reheating meat, cooking for a crowd, and other barbecue questions.
Explore South Carolina BBQ
Go deeper with city guides, interstate road trips, and barbecue events that help you experience more of South Carolina’s barbecue scene.
BBQ by City
Use our city guides when you want more than a list of restaurants. They pull together the places worth knowing, what each city does well, and where to start.
Charleston · Columbia · Greenville · Myrtle Beach · Browse All Cities
Take BBQ on the Road
Choose an interstate and find South Carolina barbecue near the next exit without turning your drive into a major detour.
Find BBQ Events
See barbecue festivals, cook-offs, fundraisers, and other events happening around South Carolina.
Latest from Destination BBQ
Fresh guides, stories, and practical help from around the site.
What Makes South Carolina BBQ Different
South Carolina barbecue is shaped by regional sauces, whole-hog traditions, and a side dish found especially close to home: barbecue hash.
Sauce Traditions
Mustard sauce may get much of the attention, but vinegar-pepper sauces are just as deeply rooted in the state’s barbecue traditions.
Barbecue Hash
Hash is one of South Carolina barbecue’s signature sides, with recipes and styles that change as you move around the state.
Deep Roots & Whole Hog
Whole-hog cooking and generations of regional practice are part of a barbecue story whose history reaches well beyond the modern restaurant era.
Meet James & Heather
Destination BBQ began in 2012 as our family’s “Summer BBQ Tour” and grew into a family-run publication devoted to South Carolina barbecue. We visit restaurants, document traditions and history, collect recipes, build guides and tools, and keep the statewide restaurant resources up to date—all with the same goal: help people find great South Carolina barbecue and help South Carolina barbecue find great people.
Going Whole Hog
South Carolina barbecue, from the pit to the page.
Going Whole Hog is a 300-page collection of South Carolina barbecue history, traditions, and recipes, from sauces and hash to meats, sides, and more.
Available in hardcover and digital editions.
Notes from the Pit
Join Destination BBQ for South Carolina barbecue news, events, recipes, history, and stories delivered throughout the week.
Monday brings the latest from around the state. Wednesday continues our 52-week tour through the people, places, traditions, and flavors that make South Carolina barbecue what it is.
