Everyone has been praising Bebe’s for their barbecue and this weekend the Italian Market storefront is upping the ante with dessert.

Dry-Rubbed, Roasted Pecan Crusted, Cayenne, Dark Chocolate Truffles, made right here at Bebe’s!!!

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Bebe’s [Facebook]
Bebe’s [Official Site]

Trey Popp is a Southerner and doesn’t bestow BBQ praise lightly but Bebe’s Barbecue has him singing.

The pork is moist yet deeply smoky, dressed with a zippy tomato-based vinegar sauce, and piled on a toasted hamburger bun in such a heap that a single pre-airport sandwich kept me going for 16 hours of sleepless and snackless travel. The fresh collards, flavored sublimely with liquid smoke rather than ham hocks, are tender but not at all mushy.

With meat this expertly smoked and hospitality this genuine, Bebe’s is set to become my biggest temptation on a street teeming with them

Right on ‘Cue [City Paper]
Bebe’s Barbecue [Official Site]

Adam Erace steps into Bebe’s Barbecue in the Italian Market and finds some of the city’s most authentic barbecue amid the Italian butchers and Mexican taquerias.

How else can you explain how an unassuming sesame-seed hamburger bun becomes the hero of Bebe’s pulled pork sandwich? Behind the glass-fronted line of hotel pans kept warm in a baine-marie, Coates so overloads the soft roll, you can’t help having visions of the rusty red stains awaiting your clothes. But the bun, it’s like a sponge for the vinegar-tipped Lexington, Carolina-style sauce, a Memory Foam mattress for the 16-hour smoked pork shoulder, contouring to the heap of unctuous tatters.


Bebe’s BBQ [Philadelphia Weekly]

Felicia D’Ambrosio urges everyone to eat Pub & Kitchen’s spicy pulled pork. [Meal Ticket]

It’s a video lunch at Irie Caribbean Grill, on the OTHER side of Passyunk. [Salt Pepper Ketchup]

Amada’s Catalan Express lunch fits the bill, whatever the weather. [BROG]

Adding bbq spice to a biscuit? Bebe’s Barbecue does it and it works! Oh and of course Mac & Cheese has some mac-and-cheese.  [Mac & Cheese]

S& H Kebab House has outdoor seating and a lunch that satisfies for under $10. [CE Phood]

This week the Bite focuses on barbecue in Philadelphia. It wasn’t that long ago that there was a dearth of BBQ options available. But now barbecue is becoming the latest craze.

Philly smoking hot for summer [Metro Philadelphia]

Mac & Cheese hits BBQ gold at Bebe’s Barbecue in the Italian Market. [Mac & Cheese]

Living on the Vedge takes a vegetarian look at Noble American Cookery. [Living on the Vedge]

Unbreaded gets their mouth around a large pastrami on rye at the Kibitz Room. [Unbreaded]

Veggicurious has a tasty mug of egg for breakfast at the Gold Standard Cafe. [Veggicurious]

Unbreaded tells the story of how Bebe’s BBQ in the Italian Market came to be and how the signature Carolina-style pulled pork sandwich stacks up. [Unbreaded]

Mac and Cheese may be a vegetarian but at least she brings quality Southern roots to her look at Q BBQ & Tequila Bar. [Mac & Cheese]

Bebe’s Barbecue is now open in the Italian Market across from Fante’s Kitchen Wares. The simple takeout spot has generated good word of mouth already, unfortunately they seem to close before 9pm so we haven’t checked it out firsthand. 

Take a look at the affordable menu after the jump.

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