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| - This place is just okay.
Pros: Clean, neat, service is efficient, good value re: portion size. It is an edible meal that's not too awful to eat. Good family restaurant (when I visited, a large family of about a dozen or so people had shoved some tables together and were obviously having a great time out together, so it is very family friendly!).
Cons: Mediocre food. Sides obviously from cans and boxes, and the "star" (the meat) is dry, bland, and not very evocative of a barbecue. And while the service is efficient, it's not overly friendly. Polite, but no real warmth behind it.
Although it's not too awful to eat this food, it's not great either. I got the open face sandwich which was brisket on mashed potatoes on Texas toast. The brisket was blah and needed the gravy to make chewing an easier prospect. The mashed potatoes were lukewarm, not fresh and hot. And the mashed potatoes were definitely not prepared in house - no discernible pieces of potato in them whatsoever. And the Texas toast.. wasn't toasted?? It was just bread. That was disappointing.
I also got a side of curly fries and those were actually quite good - probably because they were the only thing on my plate freshly prepared. They were hot, crispy, and tasty. I wish anything else I'd eaten that day had been!
I had a few bites of my partner's cole slaw as well and I'll say that was also good. But it's hard to screw up cole slaw.
Overall, meh meal. If I want fries and cole slaw I can get those at a hundred other restaurants in the valley. I wanted tasty bbq, and Hog Wild failed to deliver.
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