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2nd Annual West Coast BBQ Classic Results

We had the Long Beach BBQ comp this past weekend. While selling 28 pork shoulders worth of pulled pork sandwiches, we took a 2nd in pork and a 10th in chicken out of 55 teams.

While we’ve been cooking with it for some time now, this was the first event we sold the new Pitmaster sauce and it was greatly received.

See more of our weekend in photos below, as well as some videos created on Vine by our teammate Kellen Wagoner.

Thanks to our sponsors Green Mountain Grills. iGrill, Brandt Beef, Simply Marvelous Rubs, and VacMaster.

Posted by Sam | May 17, 2013 | Categories: competitions, vending | Leave A Comment »

Upcoming Competition: 2nd Annual West Coast BBQ Classic

It’s that time again… Rooftop BBQ is coming to the Queen Mary in Long Beach this coming weekend!

Join us as we serve up plates of melt in your mouth pulled pork, by the sandwich plate or by the tasting.

We are expecting the same crowds as last year so come early before we sell out!

Some important details for you:

The Queen Mary
1126 Queens Highway, Long Beach

Ticket Information:

General Admission – $10 online / $15 at the door – Buy Now
Children 12 and under are FREE
Parking is $10 with event validation
BBQ Tasting Tickets from 50 Top West Coast Pit Masters – $2 each
*Entrance to the West Coast BBQ Classic does not include admission to the ship or other attractions.

More info can be found on the Queen Mary website here.

The competition was even featured on the KCAL news the other day and you can spot our booth and our very own Joe Angelone cooking up the infamous Pig Candy!

You can also see a video from last year’s event below, along with results from the competition here.

Hope to see you there!

Posted by Sam | May 8, 2013 | Categories: competitions, vending | Leave A Comment »

Stagecoach BBQ Championship Results

We had a great weekend at Stagecoach—besides the excessive heat that blew up a can of soda.

We split our team in two again this year: Rooftop and Basement BBQ. That way we could get all our team mates and crew in.

But before we share the results of the competition, we want to thank a few of our sponsors.

First up big thanks go out to Allredy Canopies. They hooked us up with two custom canopies and some new banners. Definitely helped keep us cool over the weekend while we were serving up our ‘que for the great crowds of Stagecoach.

Next, we want to thank our smoker sponsor: Green Mountain Grills. We added two additional smokers to our team for this weekend which allowed our two teams plenty of grill space.

More thanks goes to our great serving staff who served up all of our allotted 600 tastings.

And now finally, onto the awards, and more thanks goes to our meat sponsor: Brandt Beef. With our collected 4 entries of brisket, we received 3 calls.

Rooftop BBQ:

3rd and a 5th in chicken
7th in ribs
5th in brisket

Basement BBQ:

2nd and a 6th in chicken
5th in ribs
4th and an 8th in brisket
Reserve Grand Champion for Saturday’s competition!

Thanks again to all who came out to support us and help us out throughout the weekend. Hope to see many of you at Long Beach next weekend!

Posted by Sam | May 4, 2013 | Categories: competitions, vending | Leave A Comment »

Who’s Going to Stagecoach 2013?!

Rooftop BBQ will be competing and serving up tastings to the public all three days of the Stagecoach event!

Big changes came to the BBQ side of the event this year. But now we will be even easier to find!

You can find us among our fellow BBQ competitors right across from the Mane Stage, stage right.

Our teams also decided to downsize the amount of BBQ samples we will be selling… by half! So make sure you come by first thing as we plan to sell out very quickly!

See a more detailed schedule below.

STAGECOACH FESTIVAL BBQ CHAMPIONSHIPS (via StagecoachFestival.com)

Possibly the most unique event on the professional competition circuit.

FRIDAY: ICS Homestyle Chili judged by festival attendees, The winner will move on to the International Chili Society’s World Championship in Palm Springs, CA

SATURDAY: IBCA Texas Style BBQ judged by festival attendees.

SUNDAY: KCBS Barbeque judged by certified Kansas City Barbeque Society Certified Judges
The winner of Sundays competition qualifies for the World Food Championships in Las Vegas.
All while 60,000 music festival fans stop in for Tastes of BBQ from many of the teams at $3.00 for 3 ounce.

Hope to see you there!

Posted by Sam | April 23, 2013 | Categories: competitions, vending | Leave A Comment »

2013 Sam’s Club National BBQ Tour, Local Competition in Salt Lake City Results

We made it back from Salt Lake and have made a full recovery from the 13 hour drive home, just in time to head to Vegas for the next Sam’s Club Series.

Almost two weeks ago, we competed in the local event for the Sam’s Cub Series in Salt Lake City with hopes of making it into the top 6 spots and moving on to the regionals in Las Vegas and then hopefully the finals in Bentonville AR.

Salt Lake City was a beautiful place to BBQ, and the hospitality we received from our friends at IMBBQ.com made it that much better.

We made the trip in Joe’s new Toyota Hybrid, stuffing it with everything we needed and ourselves. Including our new Canopy made by Allredy Canopies.

We pulled into Mapleton, UT Thursday night getting a good night’s sleep at my aunt and uncle’s house.

The next morning headed to Snider Bros. meat and got a chance to hang out with Will and Crew from Got Smoke BBQ and checked out his shop. It was the nicest butcher shops I’ve been to and the meat was such high quality that we got a couple extra racks of ribs for the competition.

We then made our way over to our friends at R&R BBQ and ate lunch at their new restaurant. It was packed, and for good reason the food and atmosphere were both great.

After lunch we met up with a few other teams and drove the short distance over to Sam’s Club. It was great meeting up with our good friend Michael McDearman from The American Grillmaster Experience and Get Fired up Foods.

We then settled in for the night cooking on 1 Jim Bowie-Green Mountain Grill borrowed from Cameron- from Bam Bam’s BBQ who’s also opening up a restaurant in the Salt Lake area.

After the smoke cleared we came away Reserve Grand Champion with a 1st in chicken, 9th in ribs, 2nd in pork and 2nd in brisket. We were honored to cook against the great teams up in Salt Lake and can’t wait to cook along some of them in the Regional Sams Club event this weekend in Vegas.

Thanks to our awesome sponsors we couldn’t have done it without your support. Green Mountain Grills, Pitmaster BBQ Sauce, Allredy Canopies, Simply Marvelous Rubs, Brandt Beef, Ary Vacmaster and iGrill.

Posted by rooftopbarbeque | April 12, 2013 | Categories: competitions | 2 Comments »

Santa Anita BBQ 2nd Annual Winners’ Circle BBQ Championship Results

Had a great weekend at the Santa Anita BBQ 2nd Annual Winners’ Circle BBQ Championship.

We sold 1000 pieces of pig candy, 48 lbs of pork, 150 sausages and our left over competition meat.

Checking out the crazy long line.

Sam’s favorite part of the day: turning in the food voucher tickets.

To top off the weekend we placed 9th in chicken, 6th in pork and 8th overall out of 57 teams.

Brisket box before the final clean up of drippings in the box. Thanks Brandt Beef.

Here’s our chicken box. Joe Angelone is normally the chicken guru, but couldn’t make it this weekend. Our appearance suffered a little but the flavor and texture were right on. Placed 9th out of 57.

Thanks to our sponsors Green Mountain Grills. iGrill, Brandt Beef, Simply Marvelous Rubs, and VacMaster.

Posted by rooftopbarbeque | March 21, 2013 | Categories: competitions, vending | Leave A Comment »

Upcoming Competition: Santa Anita BBQ 2nd Annual Winners’ Circle BBQ Championship

If your mouth has been watering for some finger licking good BBQ, come on out to the Santa Anita Park this Saturday where Rooftop BBQ will be cooking up tons of food for the public.

I know many of you have just been waiting for pig candy all-year-long!

This is the competition that the team brought home a first in ribs, here’s hoping to win that again!

Details on the event:

Gates open Saturday, March 16 at 10:30… BBQ will start being served at 11 am in the infield of the racetrack.

You can buy tickets online here.

More information on the event including parking information can be found on the Winners’ Circle website.

All photos shown above our from the inaugural Santa Anita event last March.

Posted by Sam | March 12, 2013 | Categories: competitions, vending | Leave A Comment »

Shorty’s Rib Fest 2013

Going in to a first annual event, we normally expect minimal crowds but Shorty’s Rib Fest broke that expectation—blew it out of the water actually.

Gates opened at noon and there was a line in front of our booth by 12:15. Our 3 smokers were filled to capacity and by 2 we had sold out, reloaded the smokers and announced that we would have more ribs at 5:30. At 4:30, a lengthy line developed and within 20 minutes we were sold out for the night.

Below are a few photos from the event, no photos of our smoky sweet and tender ribs as they were out of our hands too fast!

Thanks to Dawn Raimi for such a nice review on the Shorty’s Rib Fest Facebook page:

For fall off the bone tasty ribs go to Rooftops…….the place with “pig candy” which is also DELICIOUS!!!!! ….The only place worth going to for us!!!

Many and sincere thanks to our team moms who worked so hard serving up our ‘que!

Thanks to our sponsors Green Mountain Grills – Corporate, The iGrill FB Page, and Simply Marvelous Rubs.

Posted by Sam | February 25, 2013 | Categories: competitions | 3 Comments »

Upcoming Competition: Shorty’s Rib Fest

After having almost 2 whole months off from competitions, the team is gearing up for a competition this weekend in Cathedral City, near Palm Springs, Shorty’s Rib Fest!

We will be serving up pig candy and ribs all day Saturday so please come out and join us!

You can purchase tickets here.

Click for directions.

Posted by Sam | February 19, 2013 | Categories: competitions | Leave A Comment »

Closing out 2012, Looking Forward to 2013

We’ve finished our 2012 season and had a great start to our 2013 season. Finishing 10th in chicken and second in brisket at the New Years lake Elsinore competition.

We have a lot in store for 2013 and will be releasing some exciting news very soon.

Here’s a list of event we plan to be at this year…

Mesa, AZ: 02/16/2013

Arcadia, CA: 03/16/2013

Salt Lake City, UT: 04/06/2013

Las Vegas, NV: 04/20/2013

Stagecoach Music Fest: 04/25-28/2013

Long Beach, CA: 05/11/2013

North Bend, OR: 05/26/2013

Temecula, CA: 06/22/2013

Big Bear Lake, CA: 07/28/2013

Vista, CA: 08/03/2013

Reno, NV: 09/1-2/2013

Selah, WA: 09/07/2013

Telluride, CO: 09/22/2013

Dana Point, CA: 10/05/2013

Bentonville, AR: 10/19/2013

Plus the 2 Laughlin and Vegas events which haven’t been announced yet.

Thank you to all our sponsors we’ve had this year. Please take a chance and support these great companies: Green Mountain Grills, Simply Marvelous, and iGrill.

Posted by Sam | January 2, 2013 | Categories: competitions | Leave A Comment »