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Pit Beef in Baltimore
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Top 3 Pit Beef in Baltimore
Baltimore's home-grown barbecue — top-round roasted over hardwood charcoal, sliced thin onto kaiser rolls with tiger sauce and raw onions. Cross-referenced from Saveur, Xtreme Foodies, and Baltimore Magazine.
- #1
Chaps Pit Beef Baltimore
Pulaski Highway
“Saveur calls Chaps "the city's best known purveyor" of pit beef. Baltimore Magazine marks it as a nearly-three-decade Baltimore staple; Guy Fieri on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives said "I didn't think pit beef could get any better."”
- #2
Pioneer Pit Beef
Woodlawn
“Xtreme Foodies' essential Baltimore pit-beef pick — a yellow-and-green hut where "the guy taking your order slices the hot top round right in front of you." Saveur lists it alongside Chaps as a defining stop.”
- #3
Andy Nelson's Barbecue Restaurant & Catering
Cockeysville
“Xtreme Foodies' essential five: a family-run Timonium joint with nearly 100 years of barbecue heritage tracing back to Alabama — pit beef served in a refurbished mechanic's bay.”