BBQ in Europe?

BBQ being such an "American" food, I wonder if anyone has had ("American" style) BBQ in Europe? Some trendy place or something? A "theme" restaurant? Lemme know.....

I don't know about Europe but 44 years ago I enjoyed Skewered "Meat" cooked over open fires(charcoal) in Saigon...and a year later Yaki-Tori sticks were real popular in Chitose, Japan...cooked by street venders on small Hibachi's with Roasted Ears of Corn dipped in the Teriyaki type sauce also. As my notes from those days tell me the price was 50Yen for 3 sticks of the Beef and Onion and 50 Yen for a full ear of Corn. The exchange rate back then was 360 Yen to the Dollar, so 50 Yen was equal to about 15 cents.
My Czech cousin grills burgers and steaks...but claimed, during his visit last Spring, that the Moonlite's "Low and Slow" BBQ Mutton and Pulled Pork was a new "style" of meat to him.

http://www.icriticus.com/2002/kcs-04272002.html
http://gasbbq.net/bodeans.htm
Cool stories about Bodeans in London.
http://www.bodeansbbq.com/

I had ribs at Sticky Fingers, a rib joint owned by Rolling Stone guitarist Bill Wyman. It's located in London. The ribs were good, tender and served with a mild sauce. Also a nice side of sweet potato fries. I was there early 2000, there was Mad Cow scares and I avoided beef for the week. Lots of Stones memorabilia around, too.

I humblely recommend not trying to find American food in Europe. My experience has been that, w/ the exception of America, in ALL other places in the world you need to eat the local food. Certain exceptions stand out, French pastries are wonderful in Japan, Spam is the best in Hawaii ( yea I know it's supposed to be part of the USA...but not really), and American burgers are great in Australia.

Hell, it took us two months to find a place that served baked potatoes in Luxenborg City back in the mid nineties. We would drive a hour each way twice a month to this steak house from Arlon, Belgium to Lux City just to get a baked potato. Sad isn't it? Blazing hot granite block you cooked your own steak on...unknown cut as the description didn't match anything I knew about and my French doesn't go beyond introductions.

Forget the BBQ and find a good pizza place or bone up on the different descriptions of beef steak over there from the USA. Visits to Mickie D's are also very interesting...the menus are not the same worldwide.

Don't miss a local store selling Emile Henry's local stuff. Dirt cheap and great stuff.

I have talked with my friends in Warsaw, Poland, and they say that people do not B.B.Q. by there homes, and when I spent a month there, in 2004, I was unable to find anywhere that sold B.B.Q. anything.

Your best bet would probably be to look near an American military base. I had decent tacos in Okinawa when the military stationed me there back in the 70's and in my travels since I've mostly found decent food reminders of home where our soldier, sailors and marines are available as customers.

On the other hand, I was very surprised to encounter a Swenson's Ice cream parlor in Pattaya, Thailand. Ya never know.

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Originally posted by NYNM

BBQ being such an "American" food, I wonder if anyone has had ("American" style) BBQ in Europe? Some trendy place or something? A "theme" restaurant? Lemme know.....

You know the old saying When in Rome Chow Jim