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According to pitmaster Cary Bringle, who's been cooking barbecue for 30 years, he went about it all wrong. 'Most people start the restaurant, then build a brand. I did it the other way around,” he says. The creator of Peg Leg Porker runs an award-winning competition barbecue team, has a line of seasonings and sauces, and now, 12 years in the making, a barbecue restaurant near the Gulch. 'Now I actually have an anchor for the brand,” he smiles.
Peg Leg Porker is what Bringle considers a 'traditional” barbecue restaurant: cement block walls, personal mementos hanging throughout, and a huge smokin' pit out front. He serves pork and chickenno brisketbecause, he says, 'to me, this is Tennessee barbecue. It's what I grew up eating [when I went to] Memphis. So we're going to do what we do, even if it doesn't please everybody.”
But if you like hickory-smoked pork and a full bar, we're guessing it'll please you just fine.
The menu is tight with little more than a pulled pork sandwich, a pulled pork platter, dry ribs, wet ribs, a yardbird platter, a few starters, and sides like smoked green beans and slaw. He'll also smoke a whole hog on weekends and probably even heckle you a bit on the microphone. 'We're gonna have some fun,” he says with a laugh.
Peg Leg Porker
903 Gleaves St.
(615) 829-6023