Trends · data through September 2026

Barbecue in Virginia

Iceflower tracks 247 stores from 195 barbecue chains in Virginia. Tortilleria Mixteca grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dickey's Barbecue Pit and Redwood Smoke Shack.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
195
Tracked stores
247
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked barbecue chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Tortilleria Mixteca and Dickey's Barbecue Pit sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T Tortilleria Mixteca - +16.4%
2 D Dickey's Barbecue Pit logo Dickey's Barbecue Pit - +15.3%
3 R Redwood Smoke Shack ▲1 +14.0%
4 M Mission BBQ logo Mission BBQ - +7.2%
5 T The Fishin' Pig logo The Fishin' Pig ▲1 +4.1%
6 A Aunt Bea's Barbecue - -8.9%
7 V Virginia BBQ ▲1 -20.3%
8 S Smokey Bones logo Smokey Bones ▼2 -54.3%
9 D District BBQ ▼1 -78.2%
  • Mission BBQ
  • Redwood Smoke Shack
  • The Fishin' Pig
  • Malbon Brothers Corner Mart BBQ and Catering
  • Smokey Bones
  • County Grill & Smokehouse
  • Monk's BBQ
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

247 tracked store locations in Virginia. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Mission BBQ (20)
  • Redwood Smoke Shack (3)
  • The Fishin' Pig (5)
  • Malbon Brothers Corner Mart BBQ and Catering (1)
  • Smokey Bones (5)
  • County Grill & Smokehouse (1)
  • Monk's BBQ (2)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 M Mission BBQ logo Mission BBQ 20
  • 2 D Dickey's Barbecue Pit logo Dickey's Barbecue Pit 6
  • 3 T The Fishin' Pig logo The Fishin' Pig 5
  • 4 S Smokey Bones logo Smokey Bones 5
  • 5 V Virginia BBQ 3
  • 6 F Famous Dave's logo Famous Dave's 3
  • 7 D District BBQ 3
  • 8 A Aunt Bea's Barbecue 3
  • 9 T Tortilleria Mixteca 3
  • 10 R Redwood Smoke Shack 3
  • 11 B Buz and Ned's Real Barbecue 2
  • 12 Q Q Barbeque logo Q Barbeque 2
  • 13 R Rocklands Barbeque and Grilling Company logo Rocklands Barbeque and Grilling Company 2
  • 14 D Deep Run Roadhouse 2
  • 15 B Bar-Q logo Bar-Q 2
  • 16 Q Q Daddy's Pitmaster BBQ logo Q Daddy's Pitmaster BBQ 2
  • 17 M Monk's BBQ 2
  • 18 T The Bone 2
  • 19 H Holy Smoke 1
  • 20 H High Plains Barbecue 1
  • 21 W Wildwood Bar-B-Que 1
  • 22 L Lakeside Barbeque 1
  • 23 T The Scottish Pig 1
  • 24 B Blue Ridge BBQ & Catering 1
  • 25 C Corner Market BBQ 1
  • 26 M Malbon Brothers Corner Mart BBQ and Catering 1
  • 27 Y Yamada Japanese BBQ 1
  • 28 S Savory Flavors 1
  • 29 F Fisher & Company 1
  • 30 B Bubba & Frank's Smokehouse BBQ 1
  • 31 F Frontier by Alamo 1
  • 32 B Bishop's BBQ 1
  • 33 I Inner City Blues 1
  • 34 S Smoked Kitchen 1
  • 35 B Bootleg BBQ 1
  • 36 B Birmie's Fixins logo Birmie's Fixins 1
  • 37 B Beverley's Ribinator BBQ 1
  • 38 R Risin' Smoke Barbecue 1
  • 39 S Smok N Pigz BBQ 1
  • 40 P Paulie's Pig Out 1
  • 41 T Team Carolina Real Pit BBQ 1
  • 42 H Hawk's BBQ 1
  • 43 W Wildwood Smokehouse 1
  • 44 C Chad's Dad's BBQ Plus 1
  • 45 M Mason's Grill & Smokehouse 1
  • 46 H Hawk's Fish & BBQ 1
  • 47 V Valley Smokehouse 1
  • 48 H Hog-it-up BBQ 1
  • 49 T The Galax Smokehouse 1
  • 50 B Blue Ridge Pig 1

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