Nelson Head, owner and founder of Dixie Bones BBQ in Woodbridge, Virginia, tracks wholesale prices each week so menu prices can stay as fair as possible.
The photo on the restaurant wall is not decoration. It is why Dixie Bones fries catfish the old way—cane pole, pliers, and whatever you pulled out of the water yourself. That changed in the 1960s, when TVA scientists showed catfish could be farmed, and the U.S. industry followed. Dixie Bones still uses 100% farm-raised American catfish.
Nelson Head, owner and founder of Dixie Bones BBQ in Woodbridge, Virginia, tracks wholesale prices each week so menu prices can stay as fair as possible.
Last week a vendor sent regular russets instead of the premium U.S. No. 1 Idahos Dixie Bones had ordered. The boxes looked the same, and the potatoes look alike—but russets bake up mushy, watery, and bland, while Idahos stay firm, meaty, and full of potato flavor. The cooks caught the switch right away, baked one to confirm, and sent all 30 fifty-pound cases back with a polite note: don’t ever try to pull this again.
Nelson Head, owner and founder of Dixie Bones BBQ in Woodbridge, Virginia, tracks wholesale prices each week so menu prices can stay as fair as possible.
On Labor Day, Head’s thoughts turned to restaurant workers—the people who feed and serve guests when everyone else is off, and who are back at work preparing the next meal when the rest of the world returns to the office. For the last 30 years, he says, it has been an honor and privilege to spend his days and evenings with the people who make Dixie Bones work.
Nelson Head, owner and founder of Dixie Bones BBQ in Woodbridge, tracks wholesale prices weekly so menu prices stay as fair as possible.
A networking and awards event celebrating 99 years of service to the community — complete with wine, hors d’oeuvres, cake, and live jazz.
Nelson Head, owner and founder of Dixie Bones BBQ in Woodbridge, Virginia, tracks wholesale prices every week so menu prices can stay as fair as possible.
Price changes this week:
A networking and awards event celebrating 99 years of service to the community — complete with wine, hors d’oeuvres, cake, and live jazz.
Nelson Head, owner and founder of Dixie Bones BBQ in Woodbridge, Virginia, tracks wholesale prices weekly so menu prices stay as fair as possible.
A networking and awards event celebrating 99 years of service to the community — complete with wine, hors d’oeuvres, cake, and live jazz.
Nelson Head, owner and founder of Dixie Bones BBQ in Woodbridge, Virginia, tracks wholesale prices every week so his menu prices stay as fair as possible.
Protein is back on top thanks to the MAHA movement, and southerners have been smoking and thriving on it for generations. Dixie Bones has been serving it for over 30 years, so it’s nice to see pork and beef back where they belong.
