Barbecue in Jacksonville
Jacksonville has 8 barbecue spots on The BBQ Atlas, with Texas-style smoke on the menu. You'll find Bono's Pit Bar-B-Q, Bono's Pit Bar-B-Q and Bono's Pit Bar-B-Q here, among others. We don't rank them — explore each below and decide where you're eating in Jacksonville, United States.
Bono's Pit Bar-B-Q
Jacksonville, United States
The restaurant sits on Duval Station Road in Jacksonville, open daily from half-ten in the morning until ten at night. It's part of a family that's been at this for more than seventy years — same name, same approach, no reinvention required. Pickup and delivery run alongside the dining room. Hours shift on holidays, so ring ahead if the calendar says so. Otherwise, it's there when you need it.
Bono's Pit Bar-B-Q
Jacksonville, United States
The menu is straightforward: pit-cooked barbecue done the way the Bono's name has meant it for seven decades. No frills, just smoke and meat at a price that keeps the regulars coming back. Find it on Norwood Avenue. Call ahead at (904) 765-1817 if you need to know what's on — hours aren't posted, but the pit doesn't lie.
Bono's Pit Bar-B-Q
Jacksonville, United States
The business started in 1949, and decades later the formula hasn't changed: meat over a pit, no shortcuts. This location sits on Skinner Lake Drive, open six days a week — Sunday's the day off — serving lunch and dinner to a city that's had plenty of time to decide whether it's worth the drive. It's barbecue done the old way, in a region where that still means something. The kind of place that doesn't need to explain itself because the smoke does that work. If you're near the lake and hungry, you know where to go.
Bono's Pit Bar-B-Q
Jacksonville, United States
Southern pit barbecue done the way Lou Bono set it up: oak-fired, smoked in-house, no shortcuts. The wood does what it's supposed to do, and the pit does the rest. This Beach Boulevard location is one of several across the region. The method hasn't changed — oak, smoke, time. Check the website for other locations if you're not near Jacksonville.
Bono's Pit Bar-B-Q
Jacksonville, United States
Bono's Pit Bar-B-Q runs multiple locations across Florida, and this one sits at 100 Bartram Oaks Walk. The brand has been cooking barbecue since 1949—long enough to know what works and what doesn't. They call it real pit barbecue, and they price it in the middle range. No fuss, no reinvention. Just the kind of place that shows up in a neighbourhood and does what it came to do.
MISSION BBQ
Jacksonville, United States
Two friends started MISSION BBQ in 2011 with a passion for barbecue and a reverence for service members. The brand has since spread to dozens of locations, this one among them, serving brisket, ribs, and pulled pork to St. John's at a pace that suits lunch breaks and weeknight dinners. Open daily — eleven to nine most days, closing a bit earlier on Sundays. The format is counter-service: order, collect, eat. No fuss, no wait staff, just trays and a straightforward menu that doesn't change much from one outpost to the next.
MISSION BBQ
Jacksonville, United States
This Jacksonville outpost sits on Western Boulevard, open daily for lunch and dinner — Sunday through Saturday, with slightly shorter hours on Sunday. The brand was built by two friends who cared about barbecue, and the format is fast-casual: order at the counter, take a seat. The menu runs the usual suspects — brisket, ribs, pulled pork — plated quickly and without ceremony. It's barbecue for people who want it now, not after an hour in line. Open until nine most nights.
MISSION BBQ
Jacksonville, United States
Two friends passionate about barbecue started MISSION BBQ in 2011, and this outpost sits on Blanding Boulevard in Orange Park. It's open daily — eleven to nine most days, half-eleven to eight on Sundays. The menu runs barbecue; the doors open at lunch. No fuss, just what the sign says.