RJ's Bob-Be-Que

“Mission's hometown pit since 1998”

RJ's Bob-Be-Que has anchored Mission and northeast Johnson County since 1998, the kind of hometown pit a neighborhood measures its weeks by. It doesn't reach for reinvention—it makes honest Kansas City barbecue at prices that keep the regulars regular, in a room that has never needed a gimmick to fill its tables. The pulled pork sandwich is the everyday go-to, carrying a clean hickory smoke, and the ribs lean into a classic Kansas City sweetness that pairs naturally with the tomato-based house sauce. A house sausage and a plate of crisp onion rings round out the tray for a hungry lunch. It's an unpretentious Kansas-side stop that has earned its standing one plate at a time, decade after decade, by simply keeping the smoke steady and the prices fair for the people who live nearby.