BBQ Restaurants in Santa Barbara, CA

BBQ in Santa Barbara at a glance

• BBQ is the 21th largest food category in Santa Barbara, after bars and mexican.
• Its 0.8% share compares with 1.4% across the 506 cities in this guide, so it is thinner here than in most cities.
• Of the 6 listed below, 6 are independent and 0 belong to chains; 6 list a website.

BBQ Restaurants in Santa Barbara

• SB Smokehouse
  Restaurant · BBQ · 312 N Nopal St
• Best BBQ Santa Barbara
  Restaurant · BBQ · 716 State St
• Santa Barbara Chicken Ranch
  Restaurant · BBQ · 2618 De La Vina St
• Killer B's BBQ And Bar
  Restaurant · BBQ · 718 State St
• Tacone Flavor Grill
  Restaurant · BBQ · 213 Paseo Nuevo
• Santa Barbara Bar B Que
  Restaurant · BBQ · 1915 De La Vina St

BBQ elsewhere in California

Among the California cities in this guide, the most bbq listings are in Los Angeles (181), San Diego (85), San Francisco (41), Sacramento (39), Oakland (30) and San Jose (27).

Run a bbq spot in Santa Barbara?

You share this list with 5 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.

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