{"id":9143,"date":"2010-03-29T15:45:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T19:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/2010-03-0329-003\/"},"modified":"2018-03-10T20:08:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T01:08:20","slug":"2010-03-0329-003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/2010-03-0329-003\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky&#8217;s Best Bar-B-Q: Moonlite Bar-B-Q&#8217;s Stunning Set of Victories Continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OWENSBORO, Ky., March 29 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) &#8212; A Kentucky tradition in Owensboro, Kentucky since 1963, Moonlite was inducted into the Kentucky Monthly&#8217;s Best Hall of Fame in 2008, and had previously been voted Kentucky&#8217;s best barbecue by Kentucky Living. Now, Kentucky Living readers have voted again and Moonlite was selected the best barbecue in Kentucky. Add that to USA Today claiming Moonlite &#8220;one of the ten best places to fill up your plate,&#8221; and you get a sense of the tradition smoking in Owensboro. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;This is a real honor. I am overwhelmed by our customers&#8217; loyalty. I know everyone has their favorite and to be counted among them is special to us. We have been slow-cooking barbecue over a hickory log fire for over three generations, but you are only as good as your last meal,&#8221; said Patrick Bosley, Manager of the Moonlite Bar-B-Q Inn. &#8220;We are most famous for our buffet and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moonlite.com\/index.php?product-info\" target=\"_blank\">barbecued mutton<\/a>. Not many people are aware of how good mutton barbecue is; that is, until they come to the Moonlite Bar-B-Q Inn and try their first bite!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Mutton puts Owensboro barbecue in a class by itself,&#8221; said Gourmet Magazine. &#8220;Cooked until pot-roast tender, it is set out on the Moonlite buffet two ways: chopped or pulled. The chopped mutton is nothing but flavor: tangy lamb and wood smoke in a bold hash duet. The pulled version is a textural amusement park: juicy chunks so supple they make us want to abandon all utensils and eat like happy cave dwellers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> For those who can&#8217;t make the trip in person, Moonlite has an online store where you can buy Moonlite Bar-B-Q&#8217;s award winning mutton barbecue, and other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moonlite.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Moonlite Bar-B-Q family favorites<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> Patrick Bosley&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moonlite.com\/p-N074.html\" target=\"_blank\">cookbook<\/a> &#8220;Family Favorites from Moonlite: Recipes that Founded a Kentucky Tradition&#8221; ($18.95; ISBN: 097668960X) includes recipes for such Moonlite family favorites as their famous barbecue mutton dip, hearty burgoo soup, and banana pudding, is also available in Moonlite&#8217;s online store.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/10-0329-moonlite_72dpi.jpg\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right:20px;\" alt=\"\" \/>Patrick Bosley is the youngest grandson of Pappy and Catherine Bosley, who built the Moonlite Bar-B-Q Inn into a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moonlite.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kentucky Tradition<\/a>, from a 30-seat roadside stand to a 350-seat award winning, world-renowned dinner destination. Moonlite Bar-B-Q has been featured in Gourmet Magazine, Southern Living, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and on the Food Channel.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;It&#8217;s the people that make it all come together,&#8221; said Patrick Bosley. &#8220;Treat your customers like friends and family, add a pinch of luck and a lot of family, mix &#8217;em together and get out of the way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> For more information or to shop Moonlite&#8217;s online store, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moonlite.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.moonlite.com<\/a> or on Facebook: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/moonlitebarbq\" target=\"_blank\">www.facebook.com\/moonlitebarbq<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> To view a VNR (video news release) of this story, click here:<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Send2Press.com\/newswire\/2010-03-0329-003.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Send2Press.com\/newswire\/2010-03-0329-003.shtml<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>News issued by: Moonlite Bar-B-Q Inn<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/10-0329-kbosley_72dpi.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Moonlite Bar-B-Q Inn\"\/><\/p>\n<p><small>Original Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/10-0329-kbosley_72dpi.jpg\" class=\"autohyperlink\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/10-0329-kbosley_72dpi.jpg<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p> # # # <\/p>\n<p><small>Original Story ID:  (5815) :: 2010-03-0329-003<\/small><\/p>\n<p><small>Original Keywords: Moonlite Bar-B-Q Inn Inc, Mutton, Owensboro kentucky, Best Barbecue, award winning barbecue, Ken Bosley, BBQ, Moonlite mutton barbeque, shop online, restaurant, Patrick Bosley cookbook, Family Favorites from Moonlite, Recipes that Founded a Kentucky Tradition, diner, dinner, ISBN 097668960X Moonlite Bar-B-Q Inn Owensboro Kentucky <\/small><\/p>\n<p><small>Alternate Headline: Kentucky Living readers have voted Moonlite Bar-B-Q Inn the best barbecue in Kentucky &#8211; again<\/small><\/p>\n<p><small><strong>NEWS ARCHIVE NOTE:<\/strong> this archival news content, issued by the news source via Send2Press Newswire, was originally located in the Send2Press&reg; 2004-2015 2.0 news platform and has been permanently converted\/moved (and redirected) into our 3.0 platform. Also note the story &#8220;reads&#8221; counter (bottom of page) does not include any data prior to Oct. 30, 2016. This press release was originally published\/issued: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:45:13 +0000<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OWENSBORO, Ky. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) &#8212; A Kentucky tradition in Owensboro, Kentucky since 1963, Moonlite was inducted into the Kentucky Monthly&#8217;s Best Hall of Fame in 2008, and had previously been voted Kentucky&#8217;s best barbecue by Kentucky Living. Now, Kentucky Living readers have voted again and Moonlite was selected the best barbecue in Kentucky. Add that to USA Today claiming Moonlite &#8216;one of the ten best places to fill up your plate,&#8217; and you get a sense of the tradition smoking in Owensboro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6114,"featured_media":9144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[402,524,260,19,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-beverage-news","category-kentucky-news","category-hospitality-news","category-us-news","category-video-news-release","has-post-title","has-post-date","no-post-category","no-post-tag","no-post-comment","has-post-author"],"acf":[],"views":6340,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}