Miami - July 16, 2008

The Fat Man Cometh

Fat Man’s Bar-B-Que

If you’re craving a hot piece of meat, you should hit up a strip club in North Miami.

That’s where Fat Man’s Bar-B-Que is (parked outside the feisty Take One Cocktail Lounge).

From inside his traveling trailer, Benjamin Nelson cooks up burgers, chicken, fried conch, and grilled fish like tilapia and grouper. But the pièce de résistance is his award-winning ribs.

Using a professional smoker filled with hickory wood (rigged to the truck’s rear), he smokes and seasons the ribs to melt-in-your-mouth readiness, then smothers them in gooey homemade BBQ sauce.

The elusive Fat Man works on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, from 7:30 p.m. to 5 a.m. But if you don’t want to venture past your local Publix, he’ll drive his flashy ride to your party.

Like a high-class call girl.

Fat Man’s Bar-B-Que, outside Take One Cocktail Lounge, 333 Northeast 79th Street, North Miami (954-536-0465).