Adam's Smokehouse
$$A Pappy's-lineage South City pit famed for smoked salami.
“A Route 66 competition powerhouse with a wall of trophies.”
A destination smokehouse in Eureka where the championship pork ribs live up to the trophies. Worth the drive west for pit-cooked barbecue with a competition pedigree.
Founded in 1996, Super Smokers is a competition-circuit heavyweight — it placed at the Memphis in May World Championship in nine of twelve years — that serves that award-winning barbecue to the public on historic Route 66.
Regulars point to Championship Pork Ribs, Pulled Pork, Brisket, and Burnt Ends.
Super Smokers BBQ is mid-range ($$).
Super Smokers BBQ 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.

East Side smoke, honest and unbothered
A Bessemer pit family-run on the same spot since 1957.