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| - There really is nothing more frustrating than a restaurant that doesn't deliver their best effort on a continuous basis. Such was the case during a recent trip to the Greenwood Smokehouse BBQ, as the food I received felt like it had been slapped together by a chef who wanted nothing more than to go home.
I decided to go with the Beef Brisket sandwich, with a side order of the Smoked Beans.
There were so many problems with the sandwich that I'm not even sure where to start. First of all, the bread was terrible. It was way too dense and tasted a little stale, which meant that most bites tasted mostly of bread (and bad bread, at that). The brisket was devoid of smoke and honestly didn't taste terribly fresh, and it was so sparingly applied that I was genuinely shocked. (To give you an idea of how little meat was in this thing, when the sandwich arrived to the table, it essentially looked like just a bun sitting on a plate.)
The beans didn't fare much better. It was a big portion (at least), but it was so far removed from traditional BBQ beans that I never quite got used to them. For one thing, this concoction has chick peas in it. Chick peas! In baked beans! The biggest problem, though, is the undercooked nature of the various beans. Everything's got way too much bite. The flavors aren't really anything special, either, with cumin the most predominant taste here.
(In fairness, I should note that my dining companion thought the beans were pretty good, although he too acknowledged they didn't taste like any other baked beans he's ever had.)
I'm just completely baffled by my experience at Greenwood Smokehouse. Why even bother opening for the night if this is the caliber of food you're going to send out?
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