Carolina Pulled Pork appears as a signature dish in 1 United States cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Carolina pulled pork (Lexington-style and whole-hog) · Asheville
Slow-smoked pork shoulder pulled, chopped or sliced, served with vinegar-pepper or tomato-mustard sauce. Asheville sits between the Eastern Carolina.
Asheville sits on the western edge of the North Carolina BBQ map, with the Lexington tomato-and-vinegar dividing line passing through Buncombe County. Eastern-style whole-hog cookery (vinegar-pepper sauce) and Lexington shoulder (tomato-vinegar sauce) historically met in Asheville. The 2005 opening of 12 Bones on Riverside Drive kicked off the modern Asheville BBQ revival; the 2015 opening of Elliott Moss's Buxton Hall Barbecue on Banks Avenue (closed November 2023) brought traditional whole-hog Eastern Carolina cookery west of the dividing line. Buxton Chicken Palace at S and W Market keeps the Buxton Hall flame today.
Where to eat in Asheville:
- Buxton Chicken Palace
- Sunny Point Café
- The Market Place