{"id":412084,"date":"2026-09-27T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/412084\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T15:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:00:09","slug":"bjs-alabama-bbq-in-south-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/412084\/","title":{"rendered":"BJ&#8217;s Alabama BBQ in South Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-headline watch-truncate\" data-v-7521dc01=\"\">BJ\u2019s Alabama BBQ is located at 3423 S. Dale Mabry Highway in South Tampa, near MacDill Air Force Base.\u00a0April Moreno, known as the \u201cmama on the grill,\u201d is carrying on the legacy of her late father, \u201cBig John\u201d Stephens, who started Big John\u2019s Alabama Barbecue on 40th Street 50 years ago.\u00a0The menu includes smoked ribs, pulled pork, beef, sausage and chicken dishes, all cooked over an open fire using oak wood. The restaurant also serves traditional side dishes.\u00a0BJ\u2019s Alabama BBQ is open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday and from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Posted\u00a0September 27, 2026 10:11am EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BJ\u2019s Alabama BBQ is located at 3423 S. Dale Mabry Highway in South Tampa, near MacDill Air Force&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-412084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}