Sweet Lew's BBQ
Lewis Donald, formerly of Reid's Fine Foods, and Laura Furman Grice converted an old service station on Belmont Avenue into a smoke shack and opened it in December 2018. The core of the menu is Lexington-style chopped barbecue made with North Carolina pork shoulder, alongside dry-rubbed ribs, smoked chicken, brisket, fried chicken and fried fish. Four sauces are made in house: eastern North Carolina vinegar, Lexington tomato, South Carolina mustard and Alabama white. A 450 square foot smokehouse behind the restaurant holds a smoker with room for 1,000 pounds of meat, burning hickory, pecan and peach woods.
- Address
- 923 Belmont Ave, Charlotte, NC
- Website
- www.sweetlewsbbq.com
- Cuisine
- bbq, southern
- Good to know
- Owner Operated, Historic Building
- Verification
- Details researched September 20, 2026. Hours and offerings change, so confirm with the venue before visiting.
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- Street address on file: yes
- Neighborhood assigned: yes
- Phone number published: no A missing phone number breaks the last step of most local searches.
- Website on file: yes
- Hours published: no Hours drive the most time-sensitive question in local search.
- Cuisine or specialty described: yes
- Photography on file: yes
- Website readable by crawlers: fail HTTP 403. The site is up but turned our crawler away. A site that blocks unfamiliar crawlers is usually blocking AI crawlers too.
- Served over HTTPS: pass
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- Address published on site: unknown Could not read the site on this scan.
- Social profiles linked: unknown Could not read the site on this scan.
- Open to AI crawlers: unknown No readable robots.txt at https://www.sweetlewsbbq.com/robots.txt.
Website checks last run October 11, 2026 against the venue's own site.
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