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I had heard great things about the place and the reviews were great for it, so I expected to finally have some good barbeque. I lived in Austin last year and experienced great barbeque on every corner of the city practically, so perhaps I'm spoiled, but Joe's was really disappointing given the stellar ratings everyone gives it...
I had the two meat plate with brisket and chicken breast, two sides of cheesey potatoes and mac and cheese (I felt like eating some cheese I guess).
The brisket was absolutely horrible... chewy, dry, pink in places and overcooked in others. I ate about a bite of it and gave up.
The chicken had good flavor and was pretty tender, this is what I mostly ate...
The mac and cheese was horrible! I can't believe this because so many reviews said it was great. Some people that came to the lunch who had eaten here before said it was a little off, but I don't see how this could possibly be good. It had something on top of it that tasted like smashed up cheetos or the cheese packet from a box of Kraft mac and cheese, without any kind of liquid added to it.
The cheesey potatoes lacked any sort of cheese. They were bland... I ate a little of it but mostly skipped that too.
So for $12 I ate most of the chicken and avoided everything else.
Also, they wouldn't give us the birthday $10 off thing because we were lunching the day before my birthday. I understand there's no exceptions and we didn't care a whole lot...except that we had 12 people there who all spent about $12-15 each with meal and drink... it would have been a nice gesture for Joe's to knock off my meal since we came all the way from out of town and there would have been no way for me to actually dine there on my birthday.
I won't be going back here, but I might try their other location, the Farm one... it could be good if we're not there after a lunch rush or something. It seemed like everything that was served to us was sitting for quite a while besides my chicken.
For the price, definitely not worth it.
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