Best Barbecue -- Broward


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Best Breakfast
 The Original Pancake House, various locations

Best Cheap Eats
 Taco Bell, various locations

Best Chain Restaurant (Tie)
 The Cheesecake Factory and Olive Garden, various locations

Best Barbecue
 Tom Jenkins B-B-Q, Fort Lauderdale

Best Mexican
 La Bamba, various locations

Best Chinese
 Toa Toa, Sunrise

Best Thai
 Siam House, Fort Lauderdale

Best Mall Food Court
 Aventura Mall

Best Pizza
 Downtown Pizza, Fort Lauderdale

Best Hamburger
 Cheeburger Cheeburger, various locations

Best Diner
 Lester's Diner, Fort Lauderdale

Best Romantic Restaurant
 The Melting Pot, various locations

Best Italian
 Il Mulino, Fort Lauderdale
 
Jack's Bar-B-Q Smokehouse
500 E. Oakland Park Blvd., Oakland Park, 954/567-9595

 It still looks like the Taco Bell that once called this place home, but the big, smoking grills in the parking lot and the outside bathrooms are your first clues that it's not. Most everything, including the lemonade, is homemade at this family-owned and -operated restaurant, dubbed "The Smokehouse of the South." The menu includes spare ribs, chicken, pulled pork, sliced beef and deep-fried catfish. The coleslaw is superb, the steak fries are huge, and diners who like collard greens say they're good. Ribs are high on the list of recommendations, but you'll definitely need the moist towelettes and half that roll of paper towels sitting on each table to get through them. And unlike some barbecue restaurants, this one offers wine and beer.