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Closer Look: Greenwood BBQ in Lighthouse Point

September 1, 2015 8:38AM

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Photography by Monica McGivern
During work hours at the Boynton Beach law firm Tomberg, Hanson & Halper, legal assistant Mike Edmonson and attorney Dean Halper often found themselves bouncing around the idea of opening their own restaurant. Their concepts ranged from the tried and true — like sandwiches — to the weird. "Pizza in a cone," Edmonson remembers. "When we hit a dead end with that, we both turned to each other and said, ‘Why not barbecue?'" Click here for the full Greenwood BBQ review by Nicole Danna.

Photography by Monica McGivern

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