Around four in the afternoon Wednesday through Saturday barbecue buffs form a line in the parking lot of Foxy Lady Laundry at Bo Legs BBQ. The scent of smoke drifts from the screened trailer with a built in grill. This is finger licking 'cue—a choice of whole, half or quarter chickens and slabs of pork ribs plus jerk chicken. Choose from mild or spicy sauce or tangy honey mustard. Sides include roasted Idaho or sweet potatoes, mac and cheese and baked beans with ground beef.
Four days a week, barbecue buffs line up in the parking lot of Foxy Lady Laundry for Bo Legs BBQ . The scent of smoke drifts from the “barn,” a screened trailer on wheels with a built-in grill. (An outdoor smoker-grill was recently added to keep up with demand.) This is barbecue to eat with your hands in your car or seated in a plastic chair near the grill.
Kevin “Bo Legs” Dority was born in South Carolina with bowed legs and grew up in Clermont, west of Orlando. As a youngster he picked citrus and watermelon from Florida to Delaware with his brothers and parents. His mother fed the family barbecue, and by 9 Kevin was manning the grill.
He married his childhood sweetheart, Diane, and moved to Miami, finding work on a car assembly line and partnering in a restaurant before striking out on his own a little over a year ago.
At first, Bo Legs BBQ operated on North Miami Avenue, but after Foxy Lady Laundry owner Richard Bassin became a customer he rented Dority the spacious lot on busy 167th Street. For now the food is prepped in a church kitchen, but the two men hope to build a restaurant on the site.
Dority dons goggles to work the grill, using tongs to turn chicken quarters and slabs of pork ribs seasoned with a wet rub. His brother Toby helps stoke the oak and apple-wood coals and slow-cook the meat, while Diane, Kevin Jr. and daughter “Baby” Diane help pack orders.
The most, flavorful, blackened meats are good naked, but sauce fans can choose from the hot, tomato-based signature sauce with chiles and secret spices, mild original (also tomato-based) or tangy honey mustard.
The sample platter has dark-meat chicken, spice-marinated jerk chicken and ribs plus thick triangles of cottony bread. Sides include whole-roasted sweet potatoes or Idaho spuds, mac and cheese and baked beans with ground beef.
The soul-satisfying barbecue at this humble spot is worth the wait and the telltale sauce mustache.
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