15bbq listings
1.5%of Des Moines listings
1.4%national average
#15category in Des Moines
BBQ in Des Moines at a glance
- BBQ is the 15th largest food category in Des Moines, after bars and mexican.
- Its 1.5% share compares with 1.4% across the 506 cities in this guide, close to the national pattern.
- Of the 15 listed below, 11 are independent and 4 belong to chains; 14 list a website.
BBQ Restaurants in Des Moines
- Restaurant · BBQ · 4345 Hickman Rd
- Restaurant · BBQ · Chain · 4337 Park Ave
- Restaurant · BBQ · 2716 Ingersoll Ave
- Restaurant · BBQ · Chain · 601 Locust St
- Restaurant · BBQ · 2712 Beaver Ave
- Restaurant · BBQ · Chain · 1810 Army Post Rd
- Restaurant · BBQ · 2250 Hubbell Ave
- Restaurant · BBQ · 1000 E 14th St Ste A
- Restaurant · BBQ · Chain · 4351 Merle Hay Rd
- Restaurant · BBQ · 5801 Hickman Rd
- Restaurant · BBQ · 6202 Douglas Ave Ste A
- Restaurant · BBQ · 4050 Merle Hay Rd
- Restaurant · BBQ · 300 E Grand Ave, Des Moines, IA 50309
- Restaurant · BBQ · 2511 Cottage Grove Ave
- Crazy Cooter's basement barRestaurant · BBQ · 2736 62nd St
BBQ elsewhere in Iowa
Among the Iowa cities in this guide, the most bbq listings are in Cedar Rapids (12) and Davenport (8).
Run a bbq spot in Des Moines?
You share this list with 14 other bbq listings. The ones guests reorder from are the ones that are easy to order from directly. Servestack gives you your own ordering site with zero commission, and Studio designs the menu, flyers and posts to go with it. Run your numbers with the commission savings calculator.
Place data from the Overture Maps Foundation (overturemaps.org), which includes data from Meta, Microsoft and Foursquare, used under the CDLA Permissive 2.0 and Apache 2.0 licenses. Restaurants open, close and move; check with the restaurant before you go. Data refreshed 2026-10-11.