Barbecue Restaurants in Berks County

Here's a fact we didn't expect when we started reading through thousands of local reviews: no single dish in Berks County gets named more often than the brisket at Stampede Barbecue in Mohnton. Not wings, not cheesesteaks — brisket, from a smokehouse tucked along Morgantown Road. That tells you something about how seriously this county takes its barbecue.

The spread runs from the big smokers — MISSION BBQ in Wyomissing, Smokey Bones on the Reading side — to the places you only hear about from someone who lives nearby, like the Bar-B-Q Pit in Sinking Spring or K'Town Pub up in Kutztown, where the pulled pork and brisket keep showing up in reviews next to the beer list. Most of the county's barbecue clusters around Reading, Wyomissing, and Sinking Spring, but the drive out to the edges is usually the part that pays off.