New York City barbecue Fette Sau is set to close forever this weekend, so my wife and I had our last meal at the historic restaurant.

New York City has slowly become a barbecue town, and one of the destinations that continues to deliver is Hometown Bar-B-Que. Despite its location in Red Hook far from subway stations, the restaurant regularly has long lines extending out the door. We showed up on a warm September Saturday in the late afternoon before the dinner rush and still had a 40-minute wait time. But in the end, it was probably worth it.

Pig Beach in Astoria, Queens, is a fun play to have barbecued meats.

Mable’s Smokehouse opened in 2011 on the latter end of the New York City barbecue revolution. The restaurant brings Oklahoma-style recipes to the city in a rustic saloon atmosphere, which is the perfect place for my three-year-old.

I met up with an former roommate at Hill Country Barbecue Market and feasted on meats.