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| - I found this restaraunt on Yelp and after reading the rave reviews, I couldn't wait to try it! Everyone had mentioned the "sketchy" location. It didn't seem THAT bad to me. Yes, the interior is old and dark, but I've had some really awesome bbq in similar places.
We arrived about 2pm, so we were very hungry and wanted to try a little of everything. The waitress was very nice and helped us choose how and what to order. We ended up with two small rib plates (these have 2 ribs each) and 1/2 pound of chopped beef and 1/2 pound of chopped pork. We got beans, fries, hushpuppies, and Brunswick stew as the sides, and we ordered sweet tea to drink. Each pork plate came with 2 slices of Texas toast. Our bill totaled $31.31 before a tip.
The food was ready very quickly. I tried the Brunswick stew first. It tasted ok, but it was barely warmer than room temperature. The hushpuppies had lots of positive reviews, so I tried one of those. It was cold and unremarkable, not the crispy outer/ moist inner deliciousness I had been promised. I decided to move on to the meats.
The meats usually come with sauce already on them, but we ordered our sauce on the side. I've traveled and lived all over the south from Florida to NC to Texas and I've never seen bbq sauce like this. It was fairly thin, like a cross between a tomato base sauce and a vinegar sauce, but it was chunky with what seemed to be onions and maybe corn and small meat chunks. It looked more like a vegetable soup than bbq sauce. There was a distinct citrus flavor that I first thought might be orange juice, but was later told it was lemon. The sauce was an epic fail for me and there is no other kind of sauce available there. The ribs were ok, but bland since I hated the sauce and had to eat them dry. The chopped beef was dry and bland and not just because it didn't have sauce. It was just dried out. The chopped pork was definitely the better of the two, but still not good enough to even make me want to give this place two stars..
The sweet tea was good and the Texas toast could have been good if it was warm and not room temperature. I almost forgot to mention the fries. That's because there just wasn't much to say about them other than that there weren't many of them.
My friend and I both felt the same way about this place. We find it very hard to believe that so many people love this food and love this sauce. I would have paid $35 to have known the truth and skipped eating here. Next time, I'll try somewhere else.
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