Zagat names Arthur Bryant’s one of the top 10 barbecue meccas

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• Arthur Bryant’s is on Zagat’s barbecue bucket list.

Zagat, the creator of city food guides, named Arthur Bryant’s to its list of top-10 barbecue joints in the country and one of the “barbecue havens you must go to before you die.”

Absent from the list is Oklahoma Joe’s, which chef Anthony Bourdain suggested should be on everyone’s culinary bucket list back in 2009. Arthur Bryant’s is the only Kansas City selection — no city had more than a single eatery on the list — but neighboring Pappy’s Smokehouse in St. Louis also made the cut.