{"id":41797,"date":"2025-07-05T22:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T22:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/41797\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T22:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T22:14:08","slug":"10-best-bbq-cities-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/41797\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Best BBQ Cities in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        Those looking for the best barbecue city in the US can skip Texas and head to Missouri instead. Kansas City comes out No. 1 in a new ranking by the firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawnstarter.com\/blog\/studies\/best-bbq-cities\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lawn Starter<\/a>. The ranking takes into account factors such as the number of BBQ joints, the number of competition awards, and the number of top-rated or &#8220;elite&#8221; places. The top 10 overall finishers:&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Those looking for the best barbecue city in the US can skip Texas and head to Missouri&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":41798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26874,64,980,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-41797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-barbecue","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-lists","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114802934628131683","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}