Lexington Barbecue Festival
Annual festival in Lexington, North Carolina / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Lexington Barbecue Festival is a one-day food festival held each October in Lexington, North Carolina, the "Barbecue Capital of the World."[1] Each year it attracts as many as 200,000 visitors[2] to the uptown Lexington area to sample the different foods from up to 20 different area restaurants, dozens of visiting food vendors, and hundreds of other vendors.
The annual event is listed in the book 1000 Places to See in the USA & Canada Before-You-Die, a part of the series based on the best-selling 1,000 Places to See Before You Die.[3] In 2012, the U.S. News & World Report ranked Lexington as #4 on its list of the best cities for barbecue.[4]