{"id":224,"date":"2008-11-03T00:14:49","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T05:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=224"},"modified":"2017-05-15T22:28:46","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T02:28:46","slug":"ray-levers-bar-b-q-lorick-road-1990s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=224","title":{"rendered":"Ray Lever's Bar-B-Q, Lorick Road: 1990s"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lorick Road is off of Folk Road, which is off of Wilson Boulevard, which is what North Main Street becomes as it nears I-20. As I was riding out that way early last month with my sister & niece on our way to a \"Country Farm Adventure\", I noticed Ray Lever's Bar-B-Q<\/i> (or possibly just Lever's BBQ<\/i>, depending on if you believe the roof or the front door placard) sitting abandoned off of the road.<\/p>\n

It struck me as a very \"barbecue\" location -- off in the middle of nowhere (sorry Blythewood!), and at that first drive-by, I wasn't even completely sure it was closed. Barbecue places tend to have odd open days and to be as a rule, rather delapidated. (There's a place in the DC area whose slogan is \"The Best Barbecue You'll Ever Eat In A Building That Hasn't Already Been Condemned\"). When I drove back out there and got out though, it was apparent that the place was genuinely defunct. The name was vaguely familiar, so I did a bit of googling and found that the place is very fondly remembered by a good number of people though the owner got himself in some serious legal trouble before the final closure of the place. Lever's son reports<\/a> that the family recipies have been passed on to Southern Pig BBQ<\/a> also in the Blythewood area.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 15 May 2017<\/b> -- As mentioned in the comments, this place has now been razed:<\/p>\n

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Lorick Road is off of Folk Road, which is off of Wilson Boulevard, which is what North Main Street becomes as it nears I-20. As I was riding out that way early last month with my sister & niece on our way to a \"Country Farm Adventure\", I noticed Ray Lever's Bar-B-Q (or possibly just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[38,5,2247,3],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-barbecue","tag-historic","tag-lorick-road","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}