Maurice's BBQ Menu 2026: Full Menu Guide & Signature Items

Maurice's Piggy Park is famous above all for its Carolina Gold mustard-based BBQ sauce — a bright yellow, tangy mustard sauce that defines the SC Midlands BBQ tradition. Maurice Bessinger popularized the style and bottled it for retail sale across the Southeast. The restaurant is also renowned for its hash and rice (a slow-cooked pork stew over rice), smoked whole hog, and a decades-long commitment to pit-style Southern BBQ since 1953.

Carolina Gold is a mustard-based BBQ sauce native to the South Carolina Midlands region — centered around Columbia, SC. It uses yellow mustard as its base rather than the tomato or vinegar base more common in other American BBQ styles. Maurice Bessinger was one of its most prominent champions and helped put Carolina Gold on the national map. The sauce is tangy, slightly sweet, and cuts through fatty smoked pork beautifully.

Hash and rice is a distinctly South Carolinian BBQ dish — a slow-cooked stew made from pork offal, pork meat, and other trimmings, seasoned and cooked down to a thick, savory gravy, then served over steamed white rice. It originated as a way to use every part of the hog during whole-animal BBQ cooking. At Maurice's and across SC Midlands BBQ joints, hash and rice is considered as essential as the pulled pork itself. It is not widely found outside South Carolina.

Maurice's Piggy Park locations are concentrated in South Carolina, particularly in the Columbia, SC metro area. The original Piggy Park location is on Bush River Road in Columbia. Use the official store locator at mauricesbbq.com for current hours and addresses — some locations have closed or changed hours over the years.

Yes. Maurice's Piggy Park Carolina Gold mustard BBQ sauce is available for retail purchase — both in the restaurants and through online order at their website. It has also been carried at various grocery and specialty retailers. The sauce line includes the original Carolina Gold, a Honey Gold variation, and a Spicy Gold version. It is one of the most recognizable bottled SC BBQ sauces in the country.

South Carolina is the only U.S. state recognized for four distinct BBQ sauce traditions: mustard-based (Carolina Gold), vinegar-pepper, light tomato, and heavy tomato. The Midlands region — where Maurice's is based — is most associated with the mustard sauce. This contrasts with the tomato-and-vinegar Eastern NC style, the hickory-smoked tomato-based Kansas City style, or the dry-rub Memphis tradition. SC BBQ also places special emphasis on whole hog cooking and hash and rice as a signature side dish not found in other regional BBQ cultures.

Maurice's Piggy Park was founded in 1953 by Maurice Bessinger in Columbia, South Carolina. Bessinger built the brand around his family's mustard-based BBQ sauce recipe and eventually expanded to multiple locations across the state. He bottled the Carolina Gold sauce for retail sale in the 1970s and became one of the most influential figures in SC BBQ history. The brand continues to operate under family ownership.

Yes. Maurice's Piggy Park offers family packs and catering options — large quantities of smoked pork, chicken, sides, hash and rice, and sauce. BBQ in the SC tradition is inherently a communal food — whole hog cooking is designed to feed crowds. Contact your local Piggy Park location or visit mauricesbbq.com for current catering details, pricing, and minimums.