Barbecue in Leawood
Leawood has 3 barbecue spots on The BBQ Atlas, with Kansas City-style smoke on the menu. You'll find Joe's Kansas City Bar-B-Que, Meat Mitch BBQ and MISSION BBQ here. We don't rank them — explore each below and decide where you're eating in Leawood, United States.
Joe's Kansas City Bar-B-Que
Leawood, United States
This Leawood location extends Joe's Kansas City beyond the gas-station original without changing the deal: you queue, you order at the counter, you eat. It's the barbecue that began life as Oklahoma Joe's — Jeff and Joy Stehney's championship competition team turned pit — before becoming a KC institution. Open most days 11 to 9, later on weekends. No reservations, no table service.
Meat Mitch BBQ
Leawood, United States
Meat Mitch is Mitch Benjamin's Kansas City barbecue on West 95th Street — the competition-sauce brand turned restaurant, from a pitmaster with the trophies to back it. Call ahead or check the site for hours. KC style, done by someone who has won at it.
MISSION BBQ
Leawood, United States
The brand was founded by two friends with a passion for barbecue, and this Leawood outpost carries that forward in a strip along the Kansas side of the state line. It's open daily — eleven to nine most days, half-eleven to eight on Sundays — and the menu runs the usual barbecue roster without claiming a particular regional style. It's a chain, so the experience here mirrors the others: consistent, predictable, and built for volume. If you're nearby and want barbecue without a wait, it's there.