Adam's Smokehouse
$$A Pappy's-lineage South City pit famed for smoked salami.
“A North County smokehouse built around the St. Louis pork steak.”
Grown from a food truck into an Old Town Florissant storefront, Mann Meats keeps the North County pork-steak flag flying. The steak sandwich and rib tips are the order.
A family-owned Florissant smokehouse whose fall-apart 'Fork Steak' sandwich is a love letter to the St. Louis pork-steak tradition, backed by a long-smoked brisket.
Regulars point to Fork Steak Sandwich, Smoked Brisket, Ribs, and Rib Tips.
Mann Meats is budget-friendly ($).
Mann Meats serves St. Louis barbecue — St. Louis barbecue is its own animal, built on the pork steak, the crispy pork snoot, and the St. Louis-cut spare rib, finished with a sweet, sticky, tomato-based sauce. The tradition leans closer to grilling and long backyard smokes than to the all-day pit cooking of Texas, and it carries a deep soul-food lineage on the city's North Side.
A Pappy's-lineage South City pit famed for smoked salami.
David Sandusky's region-topping brisket and pork steaks, across the river.

Named for the KCBS turn-in box, built for the same standard