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Is Duke's Bar B-Que Still Open? Best Thing I Ever Ate Update

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 2 Orangeburg, South Carolina

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Duke's Bar B-Que is listed open on Yelp, reviewed by our team on September 7, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.

What the source shows: Yelp's listing for Duke's Bar-B-Que on Whitman Street was updated August 2026 showing Thu-Sat hours with no closure notice, and the restaurant's own ordering website, dukessc.com, offers online ordering for the Whitman location. How we decide a status →

What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?

The episode featured Duke's all-you-can-eat barbecue buffet, including pulled pork, fried chicken, and hash and rice, according to Wikipedia's summary of the Dukes Bar-B-Que restaurants. Duke's Bar-B-Que on Whitman Street in Orangeburg, South Carolina traces to a location Earl Duke opened in Orangeburg in 1955, part of a wider expansion of barbecue restaurants by descendants of Manuel Dukes, according to Wikipedia. The restaurant is known for a mustard-and-tomato style barbecue sauce, sometimes called rust sauce, a style historians link to the family's German heritage, according to Wikipedia. Yelp's listing for the Whitman Street location was updated in August 2026 and showed hours of Thursday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. The restaurant's own ordering website, dukessc.com, offered online ordering for the Whitman location during a 2026-09-08 check, according to the site.

The episode Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 2

Episode 2
Air date not confirmed
Title: Hometown Favorites · What was featured: Duke's all-you-can-eat barbecue buffet

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Sources we checked 3 references

  1. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/dukes-bar-b-que-orangeburg
  2. dukessc.com https://dukessc.com/
  3. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dukes_Bar-B-Que
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