Big Dawgs Station 26

There is no food more quintessential, in the South, than Barbeque and six restaurants in Starkville are competing for your business, and this place has won me over. When you pull up to this small, vintage filling station you are greeted with a mouthwatering aroma of meat roasting over a pecan log fire. Stepping inside, childhood memories of fried Bologna sandwiches and Moon Pies might flood your mind. There are three tables clad in red table cloths waiting for you to sit down and enjoy a good meal. The menu is basic: sandwiches or plates of all the typical Southern BBQ meats, pulled pork, ribs, chicken or sausage and fried catfish. The choice of sides are simple: homemade coleslaw, french fries, potato salad and beans loaded with BBQ trimmings. My favorite was the beans and the rib tips if we are not talking about dessert yet. If you don't have room left for dessert, you gotta take it with you: Caramel Cake baked by Yulanda herself - out of this world good! Want to stay a while? There are playing cards at the table and the owner Mike Haddix is happy to talk a while. Ask him about his career as a pro football player. There are refrigerated cases filled with Rag Bologna, different flavors of Souse, Caramel Cake and soft drinks. You can also buy a variety of quick stop items along with fishing bait (the only place to buy Minnows in Starkville) and homemade pork skins.

Great food and better people. Get your cheese, get a suit, you can get your bait too. Not to mention the rib tips are to die for... I stopped in two days in a row! Big Dawgs has some good grub!

My husband's first visit to Mississippi and wanted to try some good old southern barbecue at my sister and husband's spot and we hit the jackpot. The food was amazing!!!! Rib tips melt in your mouth and fish is absolutely awesome. The Carmel cake was worth the 18 hour trip. See you guys on our next vacation????

Very nice people.