Santa Maria Style Barbecue Chicken
Santa Maria is famous for its’ Santa Maria Style Barbecue, and for good reason! It tastes great!
The recipe for Santa Maria Style BBQ is simple, Santa Maria Tri Tip and Santa Maria BBQ Chicken can’t be beat! Drive down Broadway any Saturday from spring to fall, and you’ll be enticed by the incredibly good barbecue aroma! For a lazy Saturday afternoon, here’s a suggested route to see what’s cooking! From the 101, exit Clark and head west into Orcutt, stopping first at the intersection of Clark and Bradley. There’s usually a fund raising barbecue in the Longs parking lot. Next, continue down Clark to highway 135 – Broadway, and head north on Broadway. The next likely spot for a fundraiser BBQ is at the intersection of Betteravia and Broadway, again in the Longs parking lot. This is where I found the worlds best barbecued chicken today, a fundraiser for the Coastal Xtreme Girls 14U trip to the World Series in Park City, Utah. (Check the photos and recipe tips from the master bbq chef!) If you don’t find Santa Maria style barbecue at this intersection here, just continue north on Broadway, and enjoy your tour through Santa Maria in search of the worlds best barbecue! As you drive down Broadway, on a nice Saturday, anytime from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm, you’re sure to find the worlds best barbecue tritip and chicken! (If you have barbecue envy and need a new BBQ – check out Barbecues.com.
Here’s the happy crew I found out and about on May 17, 2008 at the corner of Betteravia and Broadway in Santa Maria! Darrell Cosand (smiling gent second from left) was kind enough to allow me to interview him and his fantastic Santa Maria style BBQ team, and shared ALL of their secrets for the best flavored BBQ in the entire world!!! (In my humble opinion!!!)
I guarantee you, it’s the best barbecue chicken in the entire world!!! (IMHO ; – )
Central Coast California 
