Tops Bar-B-Q

Green-hickory pork on Jackson Avenue since 1952

Tops Bar-B-Q is a barbecue restaurant in Memphis, TN. Listed categories include american, restaurant.

This Jackson Avenue outpost is classic Tops Bar-B-Q, part of the chain that has been the workhorse of Memphis barbecue since 1952. It smokes pork shoulders over green hickory and charcoal and serves them in the city's most familiar barbecue sandwich, from a counter and drive-thru built for volume.

The formula is unchanged and unpretentious: pork cooked slow, chopped, and sauced the Memphis way in a tomato-based sauce, plus rib plates and pork shoulder sold by the pound for the take-home crowd. Breakfast runs until mid-morning, a Tops signature that turns the smoker into an all-day fixture, and the Southern smokehouse burger gives the menu a griddle option among the smoke. It is the everyday Memphis barbecue experience distilled to a drive-thru window, and the Jackson Avenue line proves the formula still works after more than seventy years.

• Style: Memphis Style
• Price: $

What to order

• BBQ Pork Sandwich
• Chopped BBQ Plate
• Rib Plate
• Pork Shoulder by the Pound
• Southern Smokehouse Burger

Visiting

• Address: 1383 Jackson Ave, Memphis, TN 38107-4334
• Phone: +19012748600
• Website: http://www.topsbarbq.com/

Hours: Daily 8am–9pm

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