We’re no strangers to good barbeque. In fact, we dedicated an entire issue of C-VILLE to finding the best in town. Unfortunately, we overlooked a contender: Two J’s Smokehouse in Palmyra, from Joshua Ball, offers hickory- and fruitwood-smoked meats and homecooked sides (“everything but the French fries,” Ball says).
Ball knows good ’cue. Before opening Two J’s, he cut his culinary teeth with fine-dining establishments in Washington, D.C., Charleston, South Carolina and even at Keswick Hall as the saucier back in 1994. Four years ago, Ball moved to Richmond and began work with Tuffy Stone, whose award-winning barbeque team, Cool Smoke, eventually led to the opening of Q Barbeque in Midlothian.
You’ll find pork, chicken and sausage BBQ sammies on the menu at Two J’s, plus platters and homemade sides like sweet onion hush puppies, local creamed corn and smoked peaches with cinnamon and sugar.
Needless to say, we may have missed out on some tough competition with this new eatery on the Thomas Jefferson Parkway. Guess we’ll just have to hold the contest again. Darn!
