BBQ Corner
WE THINK OUR Q IS PRETTY DARN GOOD AND SO DO THE JUDGES
We’ve won People's Choice Awards in several categories and top ten finishes in all four major categories. We put our BBQ on the menu at the Café and can hardly keep up. Guests from Texas, Kansas City, Memphis and Oklahoma tell us our Q is as good as what they get back home. We think it's some of the best barbecue in Summit County! So we said to ourselves: LET'S TAKE THIS Q ON THE ROAD and expand into catering. Thus, Bonnie Q BBQ Catering Company. We offer full service catering in Summit County, Colorado. What we serve you is exactly what we turn into the judges and what we serve at our parent company, the Arapahoe Cafe.
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Winner 1st Place Smoked Mac & Cheese
2nd Place Ribs, Beaver Creek Blues, Brews & BBQ Festival
AWARDS
Frisco's 2016 BBQ Challenge WINNER: Bonnie Q BBQ, People's Choice 2016 Leadville BBQ & Brew Festival WINNER: Bonnie Q BBQ, People's Choice 2016 Blue Ribbon Bacon Tour WINNER: Arapahoe Café, Best Savory Dish |
"That first bite tells you how meaty this sandwich is with the aroma tickling your nose and the flavors swirling around your taste buds as you savor that first mouthful."
by Stephen Fuller, Summit County, Restaurant Examiner, examiner.com.
by Stephen Fuller, Summit County, Restaurant Examiner, examiner.com.
ARTICLES
Chef Doug Pierce, below left, appears in "America's Best Ribs: Tips and Recipes for Easy, Lip-Smacking, Pull-Off-the-Bone, Pass-the-Sauce, Championship-Quality BBQ Ribs at Home" 2012 © Ardie Davis and Chef Paul Kirk, Buy on Amazon
"Meet the Challenge, Dillon's Doug Pierce brings his family-style Barbecue to Frisco," by Aaron H. Bible, Summit Daily News, Special to the Daily, June 13, 2013
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Above, Doug Pierce, owner Arapahoe Cafe and Bonnie Q BBQ Roadhouse Room and Catering Company, and daughter Bonnie Pierce, compete at the Colorado BBQ Challenge in Frisco, CO, winning 4th Place 'Anything Goes' category with their Aleppo Pepper Beef Tenderloin with Expresso Balsamic! Sixty-one competitors cooked up their best at the 20th Annual BBQ Challenge in Frisco, CO. Photo by Stephanie Cheval, LLC. |
SPOTLIGHT ON DOUG PIERCE
from "Recipes for America’s Best Barbecue-Homestyle: What the Champions Cook in Their Own Backyard" by Ardie Davis.
I got involved in competition BBQ 20 years ago quite by accident. A friend of mine borrowed our Ole Hickory Pit Smoker from the resort where I was a chef to compete in Frisco, CO ( the year before it became a KCBS sanctioned event).
I had nothing better to do that Saturday so I stopped by to check out the event. Well, my friend (also named Doug) was in the weeds selling Q so I jumped in to help out. I had a great time and the rest is history.
We competed the following year and I have every year since.
My entertaining “disaster”. That’s happened a couple of times. Go out & preheat the grill and return to fire your meats and you’ve run out of gas. Not good! Get a back up tank, it’s well worth it!
The best BBQ I’ve ever hosted was not in my backyard but on Main Street in Frisco during the June KCBS competition. Friends and family would stop by our site and we would host a “family meal” on Friday Night with a cooler of beer and then again on Saturday after the turn in we would serve all our Q that was leftover.
A hot summer day, cold beer, good friends and family! It doesn’t get much better than that.
And finally if I could host a fantasy backyard BBQ for a few folks here’s who is on the list…
Arthur Bryant - Kansas City , Arthur Bryant’s BBQ
Sonny Bryan- Texas, Sonny Bryan’s BBQ
Big Bob Gibson- Alabama, Big Bob Gibson’s BBQ
James Neely- Memphis, Interstate BBQ
Ardie Davis- PhB, author
Paul Kirk- CWC BSAS PhB World Class Competitor
How much fun would it be to talk with these legends of BBQ over a cold beer. The different regions, styles and all the other BS that might come up would be just Smokin!
~Doug Pierce
from "Recipes for America’s Best Barbecue-Homestyle: What the Champions Cook in Their Own Backyard" by Ardie Davis.
I got involved in competition BBQ 20 years ago quite by accident. A friend of mine borrowed our Ole Hickory Pit Smoker from the resort where I was a chef to compete in Frisco, CO ( the year before it became a KCBS sanctioned event).
I had nothing better to do that Saturday so I stopped by to check out the event. Well, my friend (also named Doug) was in the weeds selling Q so I jumped in to help out. I had a great time and the rest is history.
We competed the following year and I have every year since.
My entertaining “disaster”. That’s happened a couple of times. Go out & preheat the grill and return to fire your meats and you’ve run out of gas. Not good! Get a back up tank, it’s well worth it!
The best BBQ I’ve ever hosted was not in my backyard but on Main Street in Frisco during the June KCBS competition. Friends and family would stop by our site and we would host a “family meal” on Friday Night with a cooler of beer and then again on Saturday after the turn in we would serve all our Q that was leftover.
A hot summer day, cold beer, good friends and family! It doesn’t get much better than that.
And finally if I could host a fantasy backyard BBQ for a few folks here’s who is on the list…
Arthur Bryant - Kansas City , Arthur Bryant’s BBQ
Sonny Bryan- Texas, Sonny Bryan’s BBQ
Big Bob Gibson- Alabama, Big Bob Gibson’s BBQ
James Neely- Memphis, Interstate BBQ
Ardie Davis- PhB, author
Paul Kirk- CWC BSAS PhB World Class Competitor
How much fun would it be to talk with these legends of BBQ over a cold beer. The different regions, styles and all the other BS that might come up would be just Smokin!
~Doug Pierce
