 Kate Krader (@kkrader on Twitter) is Food & Wine's restaurant editor. When she tells us where to find our culinary heart's desire, we listen up. Last week, I wrote about one chef’s favorite barbecue spots that managed to become a referendum on the best places to eat BBQ in the country. In came the comments, fast and furious. I’ve learned a lot this week. For one thing, I now know that I need to take a serious barbecue tour around the United States, namely Missouri, Tennessee, North Carolina and Texas. I also now know that getting a favorite barbecue list from just one person is not a good idea. One last thing I now know is how the NFL replacement officials were feeling. Enough about me. Let’s hear from you. People shouted out their favorite places in the commentary. These five got the most love and some noteworthy sound bites. Arthur Bryant's - Kansas City, Missouri Wilber's Barbecue - Goldsboro, North Carolina Creekers - Elizabethton, Tennessee The Salt Lick - Driftwood, Texas As I prepare to start my barbecue education, I’ve found an event that can help me. This year’s 15th annual Southern Foodways Symposium, in and around Oxford, Mississippi, October 19–21, celebrates all things BBQ, including those all-important pitmasters. John T. Edge, director of the Southern Foodways Alliance - the University of Mississippi-based organization that digs deep on Southern food culture - provided me with a list of the barbecue royalty who will be there. They represent the state of BBQ accomplishment these days and NOT necessarily John T.’s favorites. Lolo Garcia Samuel Jones Spooney Kenter Ed Mitchell Patrick Martin Desiree Robinson Rodney Scott Helen Turner Tim Byres We still probably missed your favorite. Yell at us in the comments below. More from Food & Wine: America’s Best Tailgating Cities Editor's note: All summer long, the Southern Foodways Alliance delved deep in the history, tradition, heroes and plain old deliciousness of barbecue across the United States. Dig in. Note - Pictured above is Helen Turner and a sandwich of hers at Helen's Bar-B-Q in Brownsville, Tennessee. © 2011 American Express Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved. 
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Mark's Feed Store in Louisville, Kentucky is really good, too.
Coopers in Llano Texas...Best barbque has no utensils, no plates and no sauce!!!
OK Joe's is my personal favorite. Also loved BBQ in Nashville. Too bad American Royal BBQ couldn't be the first event you attend!
Any discussion of BBQ is pretty incomplete unless you have personally visited KC, Memphis, and North Carolina.
Well, alot of OK Joe's customers may have flooded your e-mail, but it is not tops in KC. I avoid OK Joe's like the plague. The food is usuallly cold & the atmosphere is more like a sports bar than BBQ. You want real KC (or anywhere) BBQ? Thy Gates, Arthur Bryant's, Rosehill, Smokin' Joes or K&M. Better food, better service & better astmosphere all around.
Seriously? What place does not have an off night once in a blue moon? I have been to okie joes probably two dozen times over the past couple of years and have never received bad service. When they make a mistake they are quick to fix it and are sincere with their apology. A joint that constantly has a line out the door does not have food setting around long enough to get cold. Food is always hot and top knotch. Not to mention they are a class act when it comes to promoting all Kansas City BBQ. They repeatedly welcome and promote other BBQ eateries when they open up in kc. That is class my friend. The first place you mention is freakin gates? Atmosphere there is the rudest in the business. Their stateline
Anyway their state line location is horrid and I have had cold food that could chill my beer. Rosehill? Do you mean rosedale? C'mon man get your sh!t straight and pull your head out of your rear if you are going to make a sloppy attempt at putting down the best BBQ joint in Kansas City.
Wow..what a rude reply! Aren't we all still entitled to our opinion?? I must say right up front that I'm NOT a BBQ judge, as it's not one of my fav foods, but it is one of my hubby's fav's, and every now and then, I've got a taste for it. I go to a ltitle store near Ok Joe's and I drive right by there each time I've gone for the past 30 years...I always see the line out the door and watched the DDD episode where they visited the place..so now I have to try it...So a few weeks ago I was over there and the line was only TO the door, instead of the norm out the door and through the lot. But, I have to agree with Sue, not my fav. Was terribly disappointed. The wait in the line is awkward at best (but thank you to the nice gentlemen in line behind me for the chat), if you call the guy hollering what would i like, and then me hollering back a rather large order "service", well they have it, but it's not great. Then my mouth abuot hit the floor when they told me $76!! Wow, it costs a lot to feed my fam, but not ever this much! I'm stilling it will be worth it when I get it home...yeah, NONE of us were impressed. Five of us, including 2 teen boys..none of us liked it. We will never go back. Rosedale, we eat once a month. Gates I LOVE..heck, I think I'd eat Wyandotte over this one any day. Sorry. And trust me I was beyond disappointed.
Oklahoma Joe's is actually on the Kansas side of the line. All three locations.