The Alabama pulled pork sandwich is slow-smoked pork shoulder pulled by hand, piled on a soft white bun with slaw and either red sauce or Alabama white sauce.
Pulled pork sandwiches anchor Alabama barbecue alongside the white-sauce smoked chicken, with the regional preference for hickory-smoked Boston butt pulled by hand rather than chopped. Saw's BBQ in Homewood opened in 2009 and brought the canonical Birmingham version to the metro; the Mike Wilson signature is pulled pork on a soft bun with mayonnaise-based white slaw. Dreamland in Tuscaloosa (day-trip) runs the dry-rub ribs version of the same Alabama tradition.
3 editor picks for Pulled pork sandwich in Birmingham, ranked by editorial score. All Birmingham signature dishes · Pulled pork sandwich across every city.
Saw's BBQ ★ 4.5
homewood · 1008 Oxmoor Road, Homewood, AL 35209
Saw's BBQ in Homewood near Birmingham is the 2009 Mike Wilson original, the room that introduced Alabama white sauce on smoked chicken to the city.
Saw's Soul Kitchen ★ 4.5
avondale · 215 41st Street South, Birmingham, AL 35222
Saw's Soul Kitchen on 41st Street South in Avondale Birmingham is the 2012 sibling to Saw's BBQ, mixing Alabama white sauce barbecue with soul-food sides.
Demetri's BBQ ★ 4.3
homewood · 1901 28th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35209
Demetri's BBQ on 28th Avenue South in Homewood Birmingham has run a Greek-American meat-and-three since 1973, continuing the 1961 El Rancho BBQ tradition.