SAW's BBQ
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Mike Wilson opened SAW's BBQ in 2009, and Alabama voted it the state's best.
SAW's started here in Homewood in 2009, in a room barely bigger than the pit. The name is Mike Wilson's old high-school nickname — Sorry Ass Wilson — which tells you how seriously the place takes itself and how seriously it takes the barbecue, which is to say: not the first, very much the second. Pulled pork, ribs, and smoked chicken come off slow, and the tangy, mayo-based Alabama white sauce goes on the chicken the way it's meant to. Order the pork-and-greens the regulars swear by.
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