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Came for the $38 dinner and got what I'd consider a 4 star experience by Winterlicious standards.
First off, I want to say that this places interior has been wonderfully styled. The oldschool booths but modern styling, contrasting industrial concrete vs wood accenting and well designed lighting, and even though the place is so big it didn't sound crazy loud.
The audio nerd in me especially loved the mixing board collage outside the bathrooms with the male and female phono jacks for bathroom signs.
Food wise, I went with the Pork Tacos, Smoked Brisket & St. Louis Pork Ribs, and then the Cheesecake. Everything was quite good. The brisket was super tender, the ribs cooked well with tasty sauces to apply, and the cheesecake had blueberry compote on top of the somewhat "more cake-like than cream cheese-like" cheesecake.
My date had the seafood salad, which was the only thing that missed the mark on our visit, and the blackened sea bass which received full marks.
Beer menu isn't the best but did have one craft beer on draught, a tasty ESB by Collingwood. Otherwise it was mostly Inbev and big brand options (Goose Island. Stella, Mill Street) aside from some other bottles of varying originality.
All in all, I'm glad I came and would recommend it for anyone looking for high quality barbecue. The price will be a bit more than a lot of other bbq joints, but the added niceness of the place and high quality service levels make it easy to see where your money is going.
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