Best BBQ in Jackson Tennessee

[frankmako]

I will be passing through Jackson sometime between lunch and dinner tomorrow and I am looking for a different BBQ place to eat. I heard there was a great BBQ place just north of the city.  I cannot remember the name, but I think it is Paul Latham’s Meat & BBQ.  When I pass through Jackson I either stop at Reggi’s off the freeway and/or Brooksie’s Barn.  Reggi’s is getting old but easy to get to.  Brooksie’s Barn has funny hours, nothing special, and I eat too much.   Where is the best place for set down BBQ meal with the wife during a long trip? 

[Miltech]

Paul Latham's BBQ is good. I don't know if it is the best. His business is located about a mile north of I-40 exit 82. (US 45 North). On the left going north across from a ambulance station and park entrance.

 

I think his hours are 7 AM till 7 PM on Sat.

 

You will always get a lot of food for the price. I know he has BBQ, chicken, ribs as well as vegetables. It is a country store/meat market type business. It is very busy weekdays with construction and similar blue collar customers.

 

You usually get a lot of food for the price.

 

If you stop you will probably like it.

[Jax970]

I've eaten at all of the bbq places in Jackson and the best by a long shot is Cajun Cookers.  It is located north of Jackson in Three way.  I know it isn't exactly in Jackson, but its close enough for me.

 

http://www.yelp.com/biz/cajun-cookers-bbq-humboldt

[Peace]

     Latham's probably does not have the best pulled-pork BBQ in the city, BUT you will not find a better place to consume meats of all kinds. That place is a meat-lover's paradise.

 

     There is a little place just on the edge of town in Humbolt... as you are headed north out of town.  I can't remember the name of it, but it has great BBQ and even better company.

      I don't know if it is still there, but there used to be a little pit down by Martha White Flower way in near downtown.  Amazing.  Someone can chime in and remember the name of the place - though I don't think it is "Sit down" and eat.

 

     If you make it down to south of Henderson to Scott's Hill, there are two great BBQ pits within a mile of each other... that could be the best BBQ in the area.. but you'd have to be passing by to make it worth it.

[No_0ne]

     Latham's probably does not have the best pulled-pork BBQ in the city, BUT you will not find a better place to consume meats of all kinds. That place is a meat-lover's paradise.

 

     There is a little place just on the edge of town in Humbolt... as you are headed north out of town.  I can't remember the name of it, but it has great BBQ and even better company.

      I don't know if it is still there, but there used to be a little pit down by Martha White Flower way in near downtown.  Amazing.  Someone can chime in and remember the name of the place - though I don't think it is "Sit down" and eat.

 

     If you make it down to south of Henderson to Scott's Hill, there are two great BBQ pits within a mile of each other... that could be the best BBQ in the area.. but you'd have to be passing by to make it worth it.

 

I think the 2 pits you are referring to between Henderson and Scotts Hill on Highway 100 are the ones in Jacks Creek.  Long renowned as the absolute best BBQ in west Tennessee, although to be honest it's been several years since I've eaten at either.  When I lived in the area, I preferred the one nearer Henderson myself.

[Peace]

I think the 2 pits you are referring to between Henderson and Scotts Hill on Highway 100 are the ones in Jacks Creek.  Long renowned as the absolute best BBQ in west Tennessee, although to be honest it's been several years since I've eaten at either.  When I lived in the area, I preferred the one nearer Henderson myself.

Yes, and yes.  sorry.  ... and one the one closer to Henderson still runs the pit... I can't tell whether the one down at the crossroads still runs a wood pit or not.

 

We ate that BBQ once a week all summer long .. probably for 2 decades.  Until I went to college in East TN, I didn't know it was possible to make bad BBQ.  :)

[No_0ne]

You don't have to go all the way to east Tn. to get bad BBQ - anywhere north of I-40 will do ...

[Troutburger]

We make some pretty good BBQ east of Knoxville. But it's not sold in stores...

[frankmako]

it is down to latham's, pig house, and i-40 exit 87 bbq for jackson.  also i been looking at neil's and bad bobs bbq in dyersburg.  did a bbq place once in dyersburg and it was not so good, just average.  forgot the name but all the locals said it was good. 

[satalac]

Pretty much all of the places named are decent. Reggie's has gone down hill since he had to rebuild.
You can always go to the Catfish Cabin off 45 for some good food too if you like fish. Edited January 18, 2014 by satalac

[jh225]

I think the 2 pits you are referring to between Henderson and Scotts Hill on Highway 100 are the ones in Jacks Creek.  Long renowned as the absolute best BBQ in west Tennessee, although to be honest it's been several years since I've eaten at either.  When I lived in the area, I preferred the one nearer Henderson myself.

 

I think the 2 pits you are referring to between Henderson and Scotts Hill on Highway 100 are the ones in Jacks Creek.  Long renowned as the absolute best BBQ in west Tennessee, although to be honest it's been several years since I've eaten at either.  When I lived in the area, I preferred the one nearer Henderson myself.

Never been to the one at the corner of 22A & 100, but the other one you are referring to is Shulers (or something like that), and if anyone thinks that place has the best Q around, you need to get out more. As for the best BBQ South of Jackson, well that would be my house. :yum:

[Peace]

Never been to the one at the corner of 22A & 100, but the other one you are referring to is Shulers (or something like that), and if anyone thinks that place has the best Q around, you need to get out more. As for the best BBQ South of Jackson, well that would be my house. :yum:

 

Has it has been Shulers for 30 years?  I haven't eaten there in over a decade.  The one in the hole at the crossroads... we still stop and pick up BBQ there in the summers.