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| - It needs to be said that the area around Chandler Fashion Center is in dire need of a good locally owned joint. However, left with no other choices yesterday, Famous Dave's knocked me off that soapbox for a couple hours. All the chain components were there - building that looks like the Beverly Hillbillies' cabin, honkey-tonk music playing over the muzak, so much crap on the walls you could hardly see wall, cute pig sayings on staff t-shirts, merchandise table in front...you know the drill. But the stuff on the walls was genuinely funny (my favorite being the neon pig with the letters M-E-A-T in neon underneath where the M would flash on and off so it would say EAT MEAT). All the staff were both friendly and knew what they were doing - management clearly must not allow airheads. Our server helped us through all the special deals they had going on, like the $5 frozen Jose Cuervo margarita and $1/$2/$3/$4 happy hour food (not on their website, but hh is 3-7). Food came quick and was really, really good. BBQ experts would probably call their BBQ "pedestrian" (use of that word is a sure way to id a food snob BTW), but I had fun trying the 6 different sauces they had on the table for us (one is called Devil Spit - ha!). It was a fun place that fed us tasty, fun tood, and we had fun interacting with their staff. What more could you ask for? Well...I was in pain the rest of the day, so would ideally like to see more gut-friendly options, but for heaven's sake it's a BBQ joint so I can deal with it once in a while.
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