2025 Centurion Award winner
Chaps Pit Beef
Best Pit Beef in Baltimore · Baltimore, MD
Best Pit Beef in Baltimore · Baltimore, MD
Chaps Pit Beef is the standard-bearer of Baltimore pit beef, the city's signature barbecue: top round smoked over charcoal, sliced rare, piled on a kaiser roll, and crowned with 'tiger sauce' — horseradish and mayo — and raw onion. Founded in 1987 next to a drive-in, it grew from a roadside stand into a Baltimore icon.
Featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives and by national press from the Food Network to the New York Times, Chaps still runs its pit hot every day, turning out the pink-in-the-middle beef sandwich that defines the form.
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Since 1987, this family stand on Pulaski Highway has defined Baltimore pit beef: charred outside, rare inside, tiger sauce on top.
Yes — Chaps Pit Beef is the 2025 Centurion Award winner for Best Pit Beef in Baltimore, a verified, criteria-based award. Named best pit beef in Baltimore for 2025 for turning a roadside stand into the national face of Baltimore pit beef since 1987.
Chaps Pit Beef is in Baltimore, MD.
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