Barbecue in Columbus
Columbus has 3 barbecue spots mapped on The BBQ Atlas. You'll find City Barbeque, City Barbeque and City Barbeque here. We don't rank them — explore each below and decide where you're eating in Columbus, United States.
City Barbeque
Columbus, United States
The Arlington location is a working smokehouse — local hickory, on-site pits, meat cooked low and slow the way the brand has done it from the start. Open seven days, 10:30 to 9:00. No shortcuts. Just smoke, time, and wood that comes from nearby. Walk in, order, and eat barbecue made the proper way.
City Barbeque
Columbus, United States
The smokehouse runs on-site smokers and local hickory — no shortcuts, just the steady work of proper barbecue. What started nearly three decades ago now reaches Columbus's Polaris neighbourhood on Gemini Place, where the same cook method that built the brand still applies. Order at the counter. The smoke does its job; you do yours.
City Barbeque
Columbus, United States
City Barbeque started in Columbus in 1999 with a straightforward idea: competition-quality barbecue, cooked the right way, available to people who don't have time to stand in a contest line. Each location runs its own smokers on-site, burning local hickory and cooking low and slow — the method that built the brand. What began as a single Ohio smokehouse has grown into a regional chain, but the process hasn't changed: meat, smoke, time. The original East Main Street location in Columbus remains the flagship, the place where it all started. They cook barbecue the way competition pitmasters do, then serve it in a restaurant. It's a model that works because the fundamentals — the wood, the method, the patience — were never up for negotiation.