Alabama News Center — Chef Rusty Tucker brings classical skills to his Alabama pit barbecue

By: Susan Swagler

Homegrown and chef-driven. Authentic yet inventive. Intuitive and intentional. Really good and simply real. Rusty’s Bar-B-Q in Leeds is all that, and owner Rusty Tucker will still surprise you.

About 20 minutes from Birmingham and just off I-20 (where he has some official tourist-boosting signage), Rusty’s is ideally located – just up the hill from a huge Bass Pro Shops, a fairly new Buc-ee’s and the world-renowned Barber Motorsports Park. The restaurant, on the main road into and through Leeds, is in a small building that was many things before Rusty and his wife, Beth, opened Rusty’s Bar-B-Q some 15 years ago.

The place is filled with vintage signs; photos of racecar drivers and Charles Barkley and people eating barbecue; awards for his food and his community spirit (Rusty and his team support UAB, Leeds High School, Sidewalk Film Festival and more).

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