| Blue Ribbon Barbecue | |
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| Restaurant information | |
| Food type | Barbecue |
| Dress code | Casual |
| Location | United States |
| Website | blueribbonbbq.com |
Blue Ribbon BBQ [1] is a family-owned chain of barbecue restaurants in the Greater Boston area. The restaurants offer an assortment of authentic regional southern wood-smoked barbecue.
Blue Ribbon has restaurant locations at 1375 Washington Street in West Newton, 908 Massachusetts Avenue in Arlington, and 342 Washington Street in Dedham. [2] Their business office, catering office and central kitchen are located in Newton Highlands.
Boston Magazine awarded Blue Ribbon Barbecue Best of Boston in 1999, [3] 2006, 2007, 2008 [4] and 2011. [5] Phantom Gourmet awarded Blue Ribbon The Greatest: BBQ Sandwiches. [6] Citysearch awarded them Best of Citysearch in 2006 [7] and 2007. [8]
On October 14, 2010, Blue Ribbon BBQ set a national restaurant record [9] for most sales on the deal-of-the-day website, Groupon. The chain sold 16,751 deals, resulting in mentions on the cover story of The New York Times Business Day [10] and the Harvard Business Review. [11]
