Augusta Road in West Columbia, SC, isn’t a storybook setting. Strip malls are lined up down the road, flanking a Wal-Mart and a sprawling old school U Haul campus. But just keep going and turn off the road at the Aldi and there’s a summer camp style building tucked in some trees and a modest BBQ sign. That’s when you know you’ve reached the city limits, City Limits BBQ to be exact. Owner and pitmaster Robbie Robinson grew up in nearby Red Bank, SC eating his fill of SC Midlands BBQ. While living in Houston in the early 2000s, he acquired his first Texas-style offset wood smoker and began his journey to unlock the subtle mysteries of smoking meats. He’s been serving the people of West Columbia for eight years, including the last year in this building on the edge of town, a town that he is representing this year as a James Beard Foundation finalist for Best Chef: Southeast. Every time we visit, we end up at the smokers, where we get down to the business of conversation. And I invariably mispronounce chicharrons, which you’ll hear here. I’m working on it, I promise.
179: Michael Shemtov, Butcher & Bee and Pay it Forward Charleston (Charleston, SC)
178: Meredith Leigh, The Ethical Meat Handbook (Asheville, NC)
177: Tuffy Stone, Cool Smoke Barbeque, Richmond, VA (Live from Charleston Wine + Food)
176: Kevin Gillespie, Red Beard Restaurants, Atlanta, GA (Live from Charleston Wine + Food)
175: Chris Shepherd, Underbelly Hospitality (Houston, TX)
174: Sammy Monsour, Preux & Proper (Los Angeles, CA)
173: Kris Tominaga, Manuela (Los Angeles, CA)
172: Vivian Howard, Chef, Author and TV Personality (Kinston, NC)
171: A Special Episode -- Why I Love Restaurants
170: Brian Dunsmoor, Hatchet Hall (Los Angeles, CA)
169: Aaron Siegel, Home Team BBQ (Charleston, SC)
168: Season Four Finale w/ Steph, A Whole Talking with my Mouth Full Episode (Charleston, SC)
167: Cindy Tarvin, Tarvin Seafood (Mt. Pleasant, SC)
166: Ali Rosen, Potluck with Ali (New York, NY)
165: Greg Collier, Uptown Yolk, Leah & Louise (Charlotte, NC)
164: Anne Byrn, Cookbook Author (Nashville, TN)
163: Rick Rubel, Charleston Grill (Charleston, SC)
162: Ann Travers Fortune & Kris Fulton, Sophomore Coffee (Baltimore, MD)
161: Mike Lata, FIG & The Ordinary (Charleston, SC)
160: Geoff Rhyne, Red Clay Hot Sauce (Charleston, SC)
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