Barbecue in Ayden
Ayden has 2 barbecue spots on The BBQ Atlas, with Carolina-style smoke on the menu. You'll find Skylight Inn BBQ and Bum's Restaurant here. We don't rank them — explore each below and decide where you're eating in Ayden, United States.
Skylight Inn BBQ
Ayden, United States
Pete Jones built this place on a simple idea: whole hog barbecue, Eastern North Carolina style, cooked the way it's meant to be. Seventy-six years later, it's still doing exactly that — no drift, no reinvention. The James Beard Foundation noticed in 2003 and called it an American Classic. They were right. Open six days a week, ten to seven. The hog is the thing here. Everything else is just details.
Bum's Restaurant
Ayden, United States
Bum's Restaurant sits on 3rd Street in Ayden and cooks in the Eastern North Carolina style. Wood fire, straightforward work, the kind of place that doesn't need to explain itself.