Fette Sau, the Brooklyn BBQ collaboration between Stephen Starr and Joe Carroll, is opening in Fishtown on Wednesday, October 17. Today, Eater has first shots inside the shotgun shack, and it’s pretty amazing.

Fette Sau proprietor Joe Carroll – who worked in the music industry, owned a beer bar and dabbled quite heavily in the recreational smoking of meat before he entered the restaurant/bar biz five years ago – is partnered with Stephen Starr on this one. The facade (left) is designed to look like a shotgun shack.

Joe Carroll, opening a branch of his Brooklyn bar and barbecue joint, Fette Sau, in Fishtown, said he was “desperately looking to figure out how I could get Fette Sau into another city.” Enter dining mogul Stephen Starr, who wanted to do more in Fishtown after his biergarten Frankford Hall had exceeded his expectations.

Fette Sau, the barbecue operation that Stephen Starr is bringing to life in the city’s Fishtown section is about four weeks out from making its debut on Frankford Avenue. Joe Carroll, who owns the Brooklyn original, and partnered with Starr to recreate it here, says he was already looking to expand Fette Sau outside of New York around the time he met the “King of Restaurants.” Opening in Philly, he said was a no brainer.

Joe Carroll of Fette Sau almost single-handedly gave NYC street cred in the world of barbecue, and Philly is four weeks out from the opening of our very own outpost of his meat mecca. While the announcement that Fette Sau was headed our way was a huge surprise to Philly, the revelation that he was partnering up with Stephen Starr floored everyone in the food blogosphere. Eater chatted up Carroll about his amazingly unique barbecue brand, and how it feels being one half of Philly’s newest culinary Odd Couple.