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Top barbecue restaurants in Charleston include Lewis, Rodney Scotts BBQ, Swig & Swine and Home Team. Count newcomer Palmira Barbecue in West Ashley among them.

Do you have a favorite barbecue joint in South Carolina? See if it made the list of best in the South for 2023, according to Southern Living.

Here’s what I’ve concluded after all those thousands of miles and pound after pound of smoked meats: the South has a lot of really, really good barbecue, and it just gets better each year. It also seems that the South’s brisket fever is finally starting to break. Yes, many new barbecue restaurateurs, regardless of where in the South they are working, still look to Texas for inspiration, often unabashedly branding their operations “Texas style.”