Bono's Pit Bar-B-Q — Jacksonville

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.