Bebe's has won the Best of Philly Award! Thanks for all your support!

 

We participated in the Sandwich Smash this year...check out the site!

 

Bebe’s began as an idea, inspired partly by an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer about the revitalization of the Italian Market on South 9th St and also by Mark Coates’ grandmother cooking. Mark learned what he knows about southern style cooking from watching his grandmother, Bebe, in the kitchen and he picked up his barbecue techniques from his family in North Carolina. When Mark decided to move forward with his idea for Bebe's, he enlisted the help of his good friend and neighbor, Tamara Van Winkle. They combined their culinary skills to create savory, mouthwatering, down home, goodness at Bebe’s and now everyone can come get their hawg on in the Italian Market in Philly 6 days a week!!!

 

Bebe's prides itself on not owning a microwave, freezer, or a can opener, so all of their food is made fresh, from scratch, in fact, some of the menu comes from ingredients they get from their neighbors, right in the heart of the Italian Market. Tamara gets up at the crack of dawn to make ‘Memphis-Style’ dry rubbed, smoked ribs, mac-n-cheese, spicy collards, cooked cabbage, fresh cornbread, scalloped potatoes, roasted corn, rotisserie chicken (first dry rubbed and then hickory smoked), homemade baked banana pudding, and various, tasty pies.

 

Mark loves to interact with the customers and works late into the night preparing the pork shoulders with a secret dry-rub and puts them into the smoker at midnight, so they come out perfect, exactly twelve hours later when Bebe’s opens at noon. You know the meat is ready when it literally falls off the bone and has a crust created by smoking the flavorful rub, also known as 'the bark'. The pork is pulled apart by hand and mixed with your choice of two sauces, a vinegar-based ‘East Carolina’ sauce or a tangy, tomato-based ‘Lexington’ sauce, and is served on a toasted sesame seed roll.

 

Make your sandwich a platter and try two of the many types of vegetarian, fresh-made-in-house-daily sides. Cornbread and southern style sweet tea top the meal off but make sure you leave room for one of Bebe's delicious desserts! Oh, and what about the biscuits? Those fantastic, homemade-baked-in-a-cast-iron-skillet, bbq rub flavored, buttermilk biscuits!!! OMG!!!  Available at 9am, on Sundays only.

Thanks for choosing Bebe’s, Philadelphia’s premier small batch Carolina barbecue, hawg on!!!

 

Email us at bebesbbq(at)gmail.com or check us out on Facebook.