Pitmaster Backyard BBQ

While my brother was visiting I wanted to try and make sure we did something fun and unique to Charleston. While perusing the Charleston City Paper I stumbled upon the Pitmaster Backyard BBQ featuring food from Georgia's Southern Soul BBQ. For $30 we would get BBQ, live music and proceeds would benefit Grow Food Carolina. Charleston always has fun food and community events going on and we have yet to check any out! We figured we would give it a shot and it would be something different we could share with +John Grupa!

The event was held in the back parking lot of Home Team BBQ. Tents were lined with string lights and pub tables set up for eating.

Upon arriving we were offered a handful of appetizers. You could eat as many and you wanted and we did.

Twice Baked Care Farms Fingerling Sweet Potatoes, Honey, Queso Cotija, Sweet and Spicey Candied Bacon Crumble. (These were my favorite and I ate close to five of them...I think...I lost count.)

Millgrove Farms Young Collard Green “Tamales”, Braised Cabrito, Red and Green Sauce and BBQ Rubbed Pork Skins, Smoked Gouda and Jalapeno Pimento Cheese, Hot Sauce, Lime

And last, but not least Steamed May River Oysters, Fairlawn Farms Tomatillo Cocktail Sauce, Drawn Sriracha Butter. They would not stop dumping these things onto our table. We were not complaining and we kept eating.

This was the first time any of us had shucked oysters before. It felt like amateur hour, but we did our best. You really have to be careful to not cut yourself since the shells are pretty sharp.

We could have stopped eating at this point, but then it was time for what we really came for. The BBQ. Check out this menu.

Goat. Yes, there was goat and it was good. We filled up our trays with tacos topped with pickled veggies and creme fraiche along with a handful of sides, and by handful I mean a boatload! There was rice and beans, cornbread, roasted brussel sprouts with pork belly, and a root vegetable slaw.

The lighting isn't great in this photo, but you can see we had a lot of eating to do!

John and Andy did a pretty good job of cleaning their trays. I struggled a bit. I wanted to save a little room for dessert, Sopapillas with sorghum butter and powdered Sugar.

The event ended up being a lot of fun and I'm so glad we decided to do it, even if we had to be rolled out of there! We got to try some really great food and after the dinner we went out in West Ashley, an area of town we've been meaning to check out! Definitely worth the drive and the $30!