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Red Hot and Blue Memphis Pit Bar-B-Que ~ regional chain : North Richland Hills, Texas

Latest visit: Mar 2016 (North Richland Hills, TX) First visit: 2003 (Las Colinas, TX) Oh boy, now I'm in trouble. The Texas guys are out in front decrying that Memphis barbecue is flat out inferior. And the Memphis boys follow with the observation that Red Hot and Blue isn't real Tennessee barbecue as they're a chain from Virginia for crying out loud . And then there's perhaps the bigger problem with chaining a barbecue joint in the first place. Just how good can it be anyway? Well if I didn't have any street cred with barbecue aficionados before, I'm really going to kill it now: I like Red Hot and Blue. And have so ever since I first sat foot in the NRH location some 10 years ago, not long after first arriving in Northeast Tarrant. Now it's not a place we frequent much - witness its debut into the RJG 5+ years later - but it's always been consistently excellent. And I've also been to the North Dallas and Las Colinas stores for business meets,...