"Yelp Tampa Bay Podcast" w/ Ray Lampe "Dr. BBQ" Airs Wed 1pm

"Yelp Tampa Bay Podcast" w/ Ray Lampe "Dr. BBQ"

Ray Lampe, better known as Dr. BBQ, has lived a fascinating life starting as a truck driver to being so well known for his BBQ that he is an inductee in the BBQ Hall of Fame. Most notably, he has recently opened a restaurant in Downtown St. Petersburg with Roger and Suzanne Perry of Datz fame (Suzanne Perry was interviewed in the first ever Yelp Tampa Bay podcast) named after him - Dr. BBQ. Topics in the podcast include:

- Cooking BBQ from the back of a trailer

- How he ended up writing nine cookbooks

- The business side of being a famous BBQ guy

- Building the Dr. BBQ brand

- How he appeared on the Food Network and continued to be asked to come back

- The three dishes he named when he appeared on The Best Thing I Ever Ate 

- How he became a chef at Justin Timberlake's New York restaurant

- Why did he decide to open a restaurant

- What is it like to own a restaurant

Dr. BBQ the person instagram: @realdrbbq

Dr. BBQ the restaurant instagram: @drbbqs

Yelp Tampa Bay instagram: @yelptampabay

And thanks to Genghis Flan for providing our theme song, royalty free!