Try This: City Barbecue in Decatur

The “More Cowbell” can have the brisket substituted for smoked turkey upon request. The sandwich has provolone, sauteed onions, peppers, horseradish sauce and crispy onions, and is served on Texas Toast. Photo by Donnell Suggs/The Atlanta VoiceDECATUR, Ga. – The smell is the first thing that hits you when you enter the City Barbeque location on Blackmon Dr. in Decatur. The restaurant’s open kitchen model allows customers to not only smell the freshly made barbecue brisket, pork, and chicken being made, but see it, too.On Friday, the day after Halloween, the store was buzzing with the activity of a lunch rush, but the line was moving fast. A day earlier the staff, some of whom have been there since the location opened in 2018, saw its largest catering order come in. It was for a 200-person Halloween wedding, remembered Graig Rogers, the general manager. “It’s been very busy,” Rogers said. “We make everything in-house.” The City Barbeque menu has traditional barbecue favorites like smoked turkey, smoked chicken wings, and pulled pork, but there are also City Barbeque specialty items like the Dirty Bird, a chicken sandwich that is served with bacon and all the fixins’ that we tried and the...