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| - I have to say, this is one of the bigger disappointments I've had in a while. When I heard that there was a BBQ joint in Pickering, I got so excited. Pickering tends to be the land of fast-food and mall parking lot chain restaurants so I loved the fact there was an independent restaurant that did not rhyme with Tack Pastors or Bone Tar. I especially loved that it was a BBQ joint.
I've had my fair share of good BBQ all over the US and Canada and I tend to like most BBQ. I mean you can't really go that wrong with BBQ (or at least I thought). Unfortunately, this place was a huge disappointment.
In terms of menu I prefer if a BBQ place allows you to customize your own meat choices. Here they have a bunch of pre-designed platters but no "choose two meats and a side" option. In fact the only two meat diner options is Ribs and Chicken. We ended up ordering a lot of food for take out: ribs, chicken, pulled pork sandwiches, baked beans, coleslaw, potato salad, and onion rings.
I'll start with the positive. The pulled pork sandwich was good. It's pulled pork and onions on a very soft delicious bun. I tend to agree with some of the other reviews that the bbq sauce is WAY too sweet but all in all this was a pretty good sandwich. If I was looking to have just a sandwich again I may consider ordering this.
The chicken was also good. Nothing overly special but nothing really that wrong with it. I found the meat itself to be a bit overly smokey (but not a good smokey flavour more like an artificial liquid smoke flavour) and the sauce to be a bit sweet but it was okay.
I thought the ribs were terrible. I tend to like ribs that fall of the bone but these ribs were so tough! I could barely eat the meat off the bone let alone let it fall off the bone. Again I found these to be a tad on the oppressively (artificially) smokey side as well.
To make matters worse the sides were also bad. The baked beans and the coleslaw were so bland they both went untouched (and wasted) after everyone had tried them. These are things that need a bit of flavour or kick, especially when pairing them with BBQ but they were just completely flavourless. The potato salad was iffy.
I REALLY REALLY REALLY wanted to like this place. The idea of having a bbq joint in Pickering excited me so - but next time I'm just going to opt for a mall parking lot chain restaurant because even though the pork and chicken were okay, BBQ isn't BBQ without a good side and this place just didn't deliver.
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