Is Saw's BBQ Still Open? Best Thing I Ever Ate Update (Homewood, AL)

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 11, Episode 6

Best Thing I Ever Ate (Food Network) featured the restaurant in its Low and Slow episode (S11E6). Saw's BBQ is a Carolina-style barbecue restaurant at 1008 Oxmoor Road in Homewood, Alabama, known for pulled pork, ribs, and a signature white sauce according to its own site, sawsbbq.com. Yelp's page for the Homewood location, last updated September 2026, showed 503 photos and 740 reviews with listed hours of 11am-8pm Monday-Saturday. The business's own site listed additional Alabama locations, including Hoover, describing Homewood as the original restaurant. No closure, relocation, or ownership-change report was found for the Homewood location in the sources checked. The site's location page listed a phone number matching the one shown in the Yelp listing, consistent with a single actively operating business.

Food Paradise, Season 12, Episode 3

On the episode "BBQ Bragging Rights," Saw's BBQ was featured for its Alabama-style smoked barbecue, including pulled pork, ribs, and house-made sauces. Saw's BBQ began as a single Homewood location and has since grown into a small Alabama chain, with locations described on its own website as spanning Homewood, Avondale (Saw's Soul Kitchen), Crestline (Saw's Juke Joint), Hoover, Leeds, and Southside, plus a food truck. According to the restaurant's website, checked 2026-09-09, the site displayed 2026 copyright information and continued to list the Homewood location alongside its other Alabama locations.