Petersburg Restaurant Guide

This is the King's Barbecue that is still owned by the original King family and has the best food. I have been eating at King's for 50 years, as I grew up in Petersburg, but have lived in many other places, including NYC and Germany.

This Kings still serves the best barbecue I've ever eaten, as well as some of the best apple pie. The always have served the barbecue without sauce, as the meat is flavored by the wood smoke. Sauce is served on the side, and it's their own proprietary brand, not that sweet tomatoe-y sludge you get most places. They still have the same really good small homemade biscuits that they've had for the past 50 years too.

The review here about rude service is simply not true. I have never been in any of the King's restaurants where anyone was rude. I suspect sabotage on that review.

The quality of service at King’s Barbecue located on Washington Street in Petersburg is terrible and the employees, managers and owners are very rude and un-willing to help you. The service was so bad my husband and I had to go and get our own refills on our drinks. The barbecue sauce is good but the meat has too much fat in it. At the restaurant you have the choice of ordering barbecue that is located on the inside or the outside of the piece of meat, but I would only order the inside meat because the outside meat is too tough to eat. Honestly I would go to the King’s Barbecue located on Crater Road in Petersburg because they have better service and quality of food. If I were to rate this restaurant on a five star system they would only receive a star because their service and value of food is bad. I will never eat at this restaurant again because my business was un-welcomed. There loss, not mine!