Starnes Bar-B-Q in Paducah

Love Starnes BBQ!! We stop by on the way back home and get some for the family too!! ❤

Starnes is an old school 1950s style BBQ sandwich diner. They have a really small menu, which consists of about five different kinds of meat, all served on grilled white bread. The menu also has potato salad and coleslaw. They have their own BBQ sauce which they will put on the sandwiches or serve it on the side. All their food is delicious, although the pulled pork was a little dry. The ham is off the charts good.

Best Barbecue, fast service. Family owned.

Wonderful service, excellent food. Limited menu, but with high quality food. Friendly staff and many local patrons.

There is a reason this place is packed all the time. Simple menu featuring smoked meat sandwiches and meat by the pound. Utterly mouthwatering BBQ sandwiches pressed on a grill with their own magnificent sauce. It is a stole in this town for a reason. Very inexpensive. Sandwiches are a bit small so I suggest getting two. Best in town!

I didn't know they opened at 8 am. Great little counter restaurant. A Paducah landmark. Great sandwiches.. Family restaurant with pictures of the kids on the wall. Everyone is kind. Chips, potato salad or Cole slaw. Very basic but very good. I actually met Goose Givens from the 1978 championship team there once

Best BBQ I've had in KY. They even cooked our food for the reunion and has great staff. Food is very very good.

Love this place....Food and service just wonderful ...Friendly staff

Great service and food. PORK, TURKEY, ETC.

Found online and stopped by on a football road trip. Neat place with a lot of history. Limited menu, but not a problem for us as we just wanted a sandwich. Love how they toast them! Got a Pork & Turkey Sandwich to try. Turkey was very tender. Sauce is pretty spicy, which you can buy there as well. Prices were very reasonable, place was very clean, & staff was extremely nice. Worth the stop if you're passing through Paducah!

If you are in or anywhere near Paducah and don't come here, you have missed out on a place that should be in everyone's wish list. If they would only open a Florida location near me. Fortunately come every couple of years and this is the first stop. Even before visiting family because they're already at Starnes.

Great tasting bbq, fantastic prices ($3.50 for one sandwich and chips).

Excellent food. Wait staff did a great job making sure we had everything we wanted. Handicapped accessible. Very enjoyable meal and atmosphere.

Awesome BBQ place! The best in Paducah!

This place is the real deal -- not a weak imitation and not a chain restaurant (like too many BBQ places). Excellent food. Good prices. Simple menu. Open Tuesday thru Saturday only. Clean bathrooms. Service is mostly counter-style, there are a couple of tables. Food is mostly wrapped in paper or served in disposable containers. Overall feeling is positive. Popular place. There are neat stacks of clean firewood in the back, and smoke emanating from the chimney -- two good signs.I tried the pork sandwich and beef sandwich -- both excellent. Also, the potato salad and slaw sides tasted good.

Best BBQ ever!!! Great family owned business that's been around for as long as I can remember. The staff is friendly and eager to serve. I highly recommend trying this establishment if you are in the area.

Great tasting bar b q. Old fashioned place. Good service. I would recommend this if you like bar b q. They even had bar b q bolgna, which I had never seen in a restaurant before.

I live in Mayfield ky so it's a treat when we are in paducah to be able to stop in at started BBQ. It is hands down the best BBQ around. I love the turkey sandwich. I had that and 2 sales today. With the 4th generation running the place and it's full daily..That in itself says it all..

Takes me back 40 years when mom, dad and I went there. I was just a kid. Same grate tast I remember. Only thing they are a little thin on the meat. 5 STARS

Starnes pulled pork is awesome. Starnes sauce is the best ever! Now it's not a real barbecue sauce but I love it on the everything! Including popcorn and lays plain potato chips!

Best BAR B Que in town. Won't eat anywhere else

Great old-time BBQ joint. Best potato salad and slaw ever. Super low prices and good, solid food. And, the service was quick and friendly.

Starnes has the BEST barbeque in town!! 🐖 They also have great customer service.

My wife has been coming here since she was a kid. Swears that it hasn’t hardly changed. Good chopped pork sandwich (everything is served with perfectly buttered Texas toast). They have some other choices (did I hear you say bologna?) but we always get the pork. Get a side of cole slaw or potato salad and a tea and enjoy! It’s a local place for sure. Get a candy bar out from behind the counter for old times sake! Always great service.

Wood fired smoked pork, beef, ham, turkey or bologna available either as a sandwich or plain meat with your choice of coleslaw potato salad or potato chips. They've been in business since 1955 and seem from the outside like a hole in the wall but based on the steady stream of lunch crowd people either eating inside or tons of people taking it to go this as I found out tasting it is quality tasty smoked meat at a very affordable price. They did serve my smoked turkey I'm just wax paper but the taste was phenomenal moist and Smokey. I actually made the mistake of having them put the sauce on it. The sauce was not needed and it was very spicy

Great BBQ, nice people, fairly priced. One of the best places for lunch in Paducah!!!

I originally had my first pulled pork sandwich in South Fulton Tennessee it was the best ever this place it was rather different with regular bread that was toasted and pulled pork on the bread it was a little on the dry side. It was edible but not the best! But the sauce was phenomenal I should have bought a container and added to someone else's pulled pork It needed to be tender and juicier.

Best BBQ anywhere! One of the only places that knows how to prepare BBQ! Inexpensive and so delicious!

My favorite BBQ! I steer everyone to this place. Truly a gem.

The best BBQ sandwich ever!!! I love this place.

Bbq beef was good, pork was better

Starnes Barbeque is a Paducah institution. Growing up here I took it for granted...passing through today on other business I couldn't help but stop in for a pulled pork sandwich with hot sauce and a cold sun drop! This place never disappoints! Cheers!

Foods great hometown feel never pass up a chance to eat there

Always enjoy eating here. Certainly a throwback to earlier times. Just belly up to the bar on round stools, get yourself an RC, a great BBQ sandwich, chips, and top off with a Moonpie!

Love their bbq and have to visit everytime we come from Georgia .Best smoked ham I've ever tasted !

Old-fashioned family-owned diner type business. The BBQ is usually served on toasted sliced bread, but you can have a bun if you want. The place was packed with customers but we were seated quickly. Service was very friendly and quick. Definitely no frills, just very good BBQ.

Really good food, best bbq in area. Great for lunch time, they can get busy but well worth it. Great tasting bbq ham sandwich! Reasonable prices. Friendly people.

Family Establishments... Friendly ... Reasonable Prices ..Best Pork Sandwiches in Paducah..

This place has it going on! BBQ Beef or Pork & more. If you are looking for atmosphere and ambience go somewhere else! If you want moist tasty BBQ served simply and priced like it was the 1970s. This is your place!

I always love this place. Great service and fantastic food.

Love the pork and the Bar-B-Q bologna, yum. Such a friendly place🎯

Best sauce I've ever had.

The best tasting BBQ in Paducah Kentucky

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I have loved this place since childhood!! The best toasted bbq sandwich around!!

Super good well priced friendly staff great service

The restaurant is small and for the most part counter seating only. The Barbecue and sides are as good as I've ever eaten. You go to Starnes for the food not the atmosphere.

Most plain bbq sandwich my fiance and I have ever had. All we could taste was smoke and burnt bread. Threw it away without eating it. Had to buy a bottle of sauce to have sauce on the side 😕🤔 Service was friendly, and the place is always busy. That sandwich was awful. Potato salad was good though. 🤷 The sauce tasted like vinegar with a hint of heat behind it. Still gave no flavor to that sandwich 🤢

I asked for suggestions for barbeque and was told this place. I was expecting you know ribs and such and what I got was a sandwich place and a pathetic sauce. It's a no from me.

God bless The Larry and Judy Starnes Family at Starnes BBQ of Paducah! They've been turning out GREAT regional BBQ for ages and ages hence. BBQ; Beef, Pork, Turkey, Ham and Bologna it's the best through and through especially with cole slaw or baked beans. Ice cold R.C. Cola products abound with old fashioned moon pies for desert and many other candies, snacks and goodies. Extremely well-priced and ALWAYS super duper busy, it's best to get their when they first open which is around 11 a.m. cst Tuesday through Saturday because by lunchtime you can barely move in that lunch-counter style green and white cinder block building.Closed on Sundays and Mondays, most all federal holidays too! Give Starnes BBQ of Paducah a try!