eGullet.com newbie here, but definitely not new to cooking or eating wonderful food. Last year, I tried to forward an e-mail to Holly about my favorite BBQ place in Charlotte, NC. I don't know what kpurvis or anyone else around here thinks, but The Old Hickory House barbecue restaurant on North Tryon street near the Highway 29/49 connector (off I-85, between Sugar Creek and University City Blvd exits) has been my hands-down (usually picking up another sandwich) favorite. Plenty of split oak and hickory piled up behind the restaurant, and the pit is in one corner of the dining room. When you drive by, the smoke from the grill often sweeps over Tryon Street traffic. I'll keep it short and sweet - they offer their BBQ pork sliced or chopped, and the chopped is rather coarse, with plenty of crispy brown and nearly black bits. They make their own BBQ and hot sauces, and the Brunswick stew and baked beans are fabulous, IMHO. When you walk into the restaurant, you'd swear you were back in the late 1950's or early 1960's. To give you some background, I was born and raised a Cajun in SW Louisiana. I learned to cook from my father and his father. I cooked nights in a small Columbia, SC restaurant named the Mouse Trap during the 1980s. Moved to Charlotte in 1991, and spent the years since trying and finding restaurants that I could depend on for good food at reasonable (or ridiculously inexpensive) prices. I'm happy to say that I found some of my long-time favorites on HollyEats.com last year, including Price's Chicken Coop and Lupie's Cafe. Hope I can learn from everyone else here, and share a few of my favorites, as well. Thanks!!