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| - Definitely there's room for improvement here, but I want to be generous with this review and encourage others to come here and help this place step its game up. I had the two meat plate with pulled pork, 2 ribs, and slaw. The best thing was the slaw, very creamy, loved it, devoured it.
The pulled pork is not bad. Served with sauce on the side (which I really appreciate), the texture is more like chopped meat than pulled, stringy pork. But it was pleasantly chewy, good smoke flavor, a bit bland with no sauce at all, but just a little sauce made it pretty darn good. (I usually avoid sauce, I'm a dry rub guy in most situations.) This sauce was very good though. Nice balance of tanginess and sweetness (most BBQ sauces are too sweet, in my opinion.)
Ribs were okay. Just two in this combo, and they're not big or especially meaty. You get more than twice as much pulled pork as you get rib meat. There could be a more generous spice rub on the ribs for my tastes, or they could have shakers of spice rub on the table. Meat texture was pretty good, on the dry, flaky side, which I consider proper with BBQ ribs. Clearly they have *not* been steamed or braised, just smoked. That's all good. Were they great ribs? I have to say no. But the place is still pretty new, and these things take time to get dialed in. Ribs get a 6 out of 10.
I'll give them another try soon. Several other meats to try, and plenty of sides.
Service was friendly and efficient. Value for money was not bad, I'd say excellent if they just made it 3 ribs instead of 2 on the combo plate.
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