Red, white and BBQ

By Karen Tina Harrison | Special to amNewYork

May 31, 2007

When New Yorkers do something, we do it right, and nowadays, the city is one of the country's best BBQ towns. You can find every style of pit-smoked pork and beef here, and it's all good.

Get down with a rack of ribs at these barbecue joints.

Daisy May's BBQ
623 Eleventh Ave.

212-977-1500
www.daisymaysbbq.com
Rack of ribs $27
Chef Adam Perry Lang is a national barbecue champ whose West Side smoke shack hosts ''cue fans from all over. Check out Adam's ribs (try his hickory-smoked "sticky ribs").

Blue Smoke
116 E. 27th St.
212-447-7733
www.bluesmoke.com
Rack of ribs $22.95
St. Louis-born restaurateur Danny Meyer is behind this meat-eaters' magnet with various styles of ribs -- Memphis, Texas, Kansas City, and (natch) St. Louie. Diners can chow down in the music club downstairs, the Jazz Standard.

Dinosaur Bar-B-Que
646 W. 131st St.
212-694-1777
www.dinosaurbarbque.com
Rack of ribs $23.95
The Dinosaur dynasty started upstate, but its Harlem outpost feels like a Southern honky-tonk. Beef and pork ribs are slowly pit-smoked with a spicy flavor that sneaks up on you. Bring your buddies and a yee-hah attitude.