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Pictured are the smash burger topped with a house pork belly and a side of fries, two vegetable sides of smoked beats and tempura fried cauliflower, and a platter of smoked meats included sausage, ribs, and brisket, with a side of mac and cheese, potato salad, smoked pitt beans, pickles, corn bread, and slaw at Wildwoods BBQ in Wildwood, N.J., on Friday, June 10, 2022.
Pictured are the smash burger topped with a house pork belly and a side of fries, two vegetable sides of smoked beats and tempura fried cauliflower, and a platter of smoked meats included sausage, ribs, and brisket, with a side of mac and cheese, potato salad, smoked pitt beans, pickles, corn bread, and slaw at Wildwoods BBQ in Wildwood, N.J., on Friday, June 10, 2022.Read moreTYGER WILLIAMS / Staff Photographer

Wildwoods BBQ

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Says critic Craig LaBan: “Great barbecue is a rare and precious commodity that’s devilishly hard to sustain in the Philadelphia region. But Wildwoods BBQ is one of our best current contenders, a year-round operation flanked by picnic tables in North Wildwood operated by two childhood friends from Australia, David Gill and Joel Romano. ‘Gilly,’ who honed his pit craft at Hometown Bar B Que in Brooklyn, turns out a fantastic pepper-encrusted brisket that glistens, tender pulled pork, and tawny-skinned chickens still moist from a honey and bay leaf brine. The deeply smoked burnt ends are confited to melting softness in beef tallow before they’re glazed in tangy sauce warmed with harissa spice.”

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Restaurant Details

701 New Jersey Ave., North Wildwood, NJ, 08260
6096003292
https://www.wildwoodsbbq.com/
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