Baldys BBQ in Bend, Deschutes County, United States | BBQ Restaurant

Welcome to Baldys BBQ, Bend, United States. the award-winning Baldys BBQ, the most succulent barbecue fare in the world. Influenced by the finest barbecue nationwide, yet unrivalled in flavor; Baldys BBQ, Bend exceeds typical classification. Put simply, there is nothing like it anywhere.  Open every day for lunch, dinner, carry-out & delivery.

Like the exclusive combination of traditional barbecuing styles that make Baldy’s BBQ so unique, the history of barbecue represents the combination of old world cuisine and the cooking secrets discovered of Native Americans by the earliest settlers.

Spanish colonists arrived in South Carolina in the early 1500s.It was the Spanish who first introduced the pig into the Americas. Pigs were an economical and abundant meat source for settlers struggling to survive the cultivation of the New World.The Indians, in turn, introduced the Spanish to the concept of slow-cooking with smoke.

Although exact origins of the term ‘barbecue’ are widely debated, it is generally accepted that the West Indian term barbacoa, which denotes the method of slow-cooking meat over hot coals, became barbecue in the lexicon of those early Spanish settlers.Some contest that the term we came into popular use after a South Carolina BBQ Shack began advertising their new services:BAR-BEER-CUE, meaning “We’re a bar that serves beer while you play pool.”Whatever the true etymology of the word, the history of barbecue is undisputed:the Spanish supplied the pig, Native Americans showed them how to cook it, and barbecue was born.