Slap's BBQ
KCK - Wyandotte · since 2014
📍 553 Central Ave, Kansas City, KS 66101 Get directions & live hours →
A pitmaster darling on Strawberry Hill — get there early or get there disappointed.
If you order one thing
Spare ribs — go early before they're gone.
The facts
- Order style
- counter
- Sauce
- sweet & tangy (competition)
- Burnt ends
- Available while they last; arrive at lunch.
- Cash only
- No, cards accepted
- Closed
- Open daily (confirm)
- Price
- $$
- Pedigree
- Competition-team roots (Squeal Like a Pig BBQ); a KCK favorite on Strawberry Hill.
⏰ Reported to sell out by mid-afternoon — ribs often go first. Come early.
Slap's BBQ, on Central Avenue in KCK's Strawberry Hill, is the competition-bred favorite that regularly tops "best in KC" lists — and the one guides most often warn you about for selling out early.
Multiple sources report the ribs and burnt ends go by mid-afternoon, so treat Slap's as a lunch plan, not a dinner one. Arrive early, especially on weekends.
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