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| - I work just down the street from the awesome BBQ joint, so it happens to be one of my favourite lunch spots.
So far, I have tried the pulled pork sandwich, beef brisket sandwich and the ribs--all three are outstanding. Their beef brisket, in my humble opinion, is probably the best in Canada. Yeah, I know, we are not a BBQ country.. I'm not GTA for Memphis. But I've been to many so called BBQ joints in and around Toronto, and Buster Rhino's, along with The Stockyards, easily rank at the top.
Fries are the thicker style, and are excellently crunchy. These are proper hand cut twice fried fries by the way, not the feeble frozen ones. They also come salted from the kitchen while they are still piping hot out of the fryer--something that a lot of restaurants miss. Their baked beans and coleslaw is excellent too, but if I were you, just do the fries. Unless, of course, you decide to get a side of coleslaw to put inside of your pulled pork sandwich, like I always do :) The only side dish that I have not enjoy were the hush puppies... but I've never had hush puppies before, so I didn't have anything to compare to either.
Their homemade BBQ sauce is also excellent. Don't be a wimp and get the habanero hot. Really, it's not that hot.. it's just right hot. It won't kill your taste buds or anything.
So everything is great, but the only reason for not getting a perfect score is the decor. It's basically a shop/warehouse feeling inside. Hey, I work at a steel plant, so it doesn't really bother me that much during lunch hour, but it's definitely not a date night kind of place. I am told though, that a new location in Oshawa is now open and that it is a proper waiter serviced restaurant, with some new outrageous menu items. Very looking forward to checking that location out shortly.
Just want to also add in a note: the owner & the staff here are truly wonderful. Once I left my wallet at the restaurant, but they made the effort of calling me long distance to have it returned. They even called back a second time after the person who answered the phone hung up thinking that it was a prank call. Now that is customer service that is above & beyond!!
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