I've been here twice now, my first time being years ago, where I was so disappointed by the BAT I just had to back here to give it another shot and I'm glad I did! I wanted to like this place so badly as everything about it seemed so awesome. It's such a small and lively joint.
Came here with a buddy on an early Friday evening for a dine-in and unfortunately the pit smoked chicken and the brisket was already sold out! Okay no problem, the fried chicken was there to save us. We sat across the kitchen, and it was definitely HOT. We were both sweating.
I immediately chuckled when I was the fried chicken. It was served on a cast-iron. I'm like how am I going to finish this? But it's so good you won't even have problems. Or you can share it! I recommend doing that.. or do I? So four ginormous pieces of extremely crispy fried chicken. It was some of the juiciest chicken I have ever had. Even the chicken breast, being like two inches thick was juicy the entire way through. Their shoestring like fries were also excellent and there's no shortage of it.The coleslaw was nice and had some real acidity to it.
We also ordered ice tea which is the perfect compliment for fried chicken. It's super refreshing and went down well with the fried chicken. I loved the kick of ginger in the iced tea.
Service could have definitely been more attentive. I know this is not to be meant as a full service kind of place but I expected just a bit more - we had to ask for utensils and water. The food did take quite a while to be prepared but it was all worth it in the end. I'm totally getting that BBQ next time.