Bar-B-Que Beach Closes, Hogzilla Barbecue to Take Its Place

By Lee Klein Tue., Sep. 6 2011 at 1:35 PM

Lee Klein

Guess this means no more Memphis Piggy.

The windows of Bar-B-Que Beach, the popular South Beach emporium of wood-smoked meats, are covered in somber brown paper. (Bar-B-Que Beach Two in North Miami folded a couple of years ago.) A posted sign thanks customers for their support through the years and announces that Hogzilla's Inspired Barbecue will move into the space come mid-October.

Bar-B-Que Beach debuted on 16th Street and Washington Avenue in early 2007. One of Miami New Times' restaurant reviewers at the time wrote that the barbecued ribs "may have been the best I've ever eaten in my entire sparerib-scarfing life." Well, that's the thing about sparerib-scarfing lives -- they are subject to sudden change. Until Hogzilla's moves in, South Beach residents will just have to get their barbecue at Sparky's Roadside Barbecue, Bulldog Barbecue, Shorty's Bar-B-Q...

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Kaynezelda

This place is gonna kick ass!! Ron G. made the success of B&B and will do the same with this place

Kina

I can't speak for how the restaurant use to be but that was before the new owner came into town. Watch out now! Trust me when I say the food/service/ambience is going to blow you away. You won't know until you try it! :)

James G. Camp

Sonny's, Miami-Dade needs one and preferably down the street from me. Their house sauce is not a liquid smoke secret ingredient like Shorty's nasty sauce. Talk about ruining a good piece of meat that was smoked for hours. This sauce is better than anything you can put on Shorty's bbq or pretty much anyone else's other than Sonny's.

http://www.atbbq.com/store/sho...

Most of the bbq sauce I've tried at other places try to pass off a watered down, runny version of Wal-Mart BBQ sauce (Great Value brand).