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When the big brick pit is fired up, the whole neighborhood smells good enough to eat, and the cars form a steady stream off Powell into the parking lot of the unassuming little frame house. The menu offers nothing but barbecue, and it’s hard to go wrong. Big legs of slow-cooked pork yield thin slices (dinner with two sides, $9.45), and whole turkeys are smoked, carved, and served with your choice of hot, medium, or smoky brown sugar sauce (dinner with two sides, $7.45). While most barbecue joints serve commercial hot links that have an off-putting industrial flavor, Campbell’s house-made links, are dense, lean, and actually taste like pork (dinner with two sides, $7.45). The cornbread is fresh-baked, the greens tender, and the black-eyed peas provide that earthy link back to where barbecue began. Be sure to have some nicely-spiced but not-too-sweet sweet potato pie and tart Marionberry cobbler.

Campbell’s BBQ

8701 SE Powell
Portland, Oregon
503-777-9795