Lil Piggy's Bar-B-Q at the Coronado Ferry Landing is the only dedicated Memphis-style barbecue restaurant on Coronado Island, slow-smoking pulled pork, hand-sliced beef brisket, baby back ribs, and whole chickens over real wood at 1201 First Street. The Spatafore family's Blue Bridge Hospitality group opened Lil Piggy's in November 2008 as their fourth Coronado concept, and the restaurant shares the Ferry Landing marketplace with Coronado Coffee Company in the adjacent storefront. Three housemade sauces — served on the side in the Southern tradition — accompany combo plates that let diners mix brisket, ribs, and pulled pork with mac and cheese, baked beans, coleslaw, and cornbread. The waterfront patio offers unobstructed San Diego skyline views across the bay and sits steps from Parfait Paris at the same marketplace, anchoring the Coronado Ferry Landing's dining corridor for visitors arriving by ferry. The on-site smoker runs low-temperature hardwood cycles holding brisket flats at 225 degrees for up to fourteen hours, producing a bark-to-smoke-ring profile calibrated to competition-circuit Memphis standards.