At Bessinger’s Barbeque, you’ll get true Carolina-style Southern barbeque carefully prepared with the highest-quality ingredients and a personal touch. We’ve been cookin’ our now famous barbeque and its finger-stickin’ sauce for almost 60 years now, and we think we’ve darn near perfected the art of making the best barbeque in the business — at least that’s what our customers say. We invite y’all to come on in and find out just how high we’ve raised the “bar” in barbeque — and we’ll even give you a few “secret” tips, along with our delicious sauce and spicy rub, to cart home and cook up some mouth-watering morsels right in your own backyard.
For more information, visit Bessingers Barbeque.
Recent Press and Media Coverage
- The Post and Courier: 3 days in Charleston: Our food critic’s 2021 itinerary, updated for COVID-19 conditions
- Post and Courier: Barbecue historian Robert Moss reflects on Lowcountry’s vanishing barbecue institution
- Post and Courier: Bessinger’s, a staple of Charleston BBQ, is shutting down its buffet
- Post and Courier: Where to eat if you’ve only got three days in Charleston
- CRBJBizWire: City of Charleston declares May as Bessinger’s Barbeque Month
- West Of: May is Bessinger’s Barbecue Month
- WMBF News: Charleston mayor honors third-generation barbecue restaurant
- City of Charleston declares May as Bessinger’s Barbeque Month
- The Washington Post: Where to find South Carolina’s best barbecue
- Wopopular: Bessinger’s Weighs Buffet’s Fate
- Charleston City Paper: 101 Things to Savor, Slurp, and Suck Down in Chucktown
- Post and Courier:Bessinger’s weighs buffet’s fate
- The Daily South:15 Most Influential People in Barbecue History
- Post and Courier: Charleston-area businesses support church fund
- Bessinger’s Barbeque to donate portion of sales to Mother Emanuel Hope Fund
- Bessinger’s Barbeque featured in People Country magazine
