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| - My husband and I decided to drop by early this evening to finally check this place out. This location is notorious for failed restaurants, so we were skeptical to find only a couple of cars in the parking lot when we arrived at dinner time.
1. This place seems to have an identity crisis: it's a BBQ place, and a organic pizza place, and it's an ice cream / pastry place, and it has a bar, and it has a lounge area on the opposite side of the restaurant that seems to have live music at times? Choose a theme, and stick with it. Way too much clutter and confusion. Coming into the place, there are a lot of high walls, so it is hard to see what is where. There are arrows printed on paper, pointing one way for bar, and one way for food. The menu is not really visible until you get all the way to the counter, so everyone was milling about in the counter area, trying to decide what to order.
2. We have been to many cafeteria style BBQ places, who serve food on trays and butcher paper, so no problem with that. The counter staff seemed friendly, and we had no problem ordering.
3. The decor is old and worn, and the place smelled musty, but was clean. The tablecloths are dollar store checkered plastic. As previously reported, the silverware is plastic as well.
4. We ordered the 3 meat samplers: chicken, brisket, and pulled pork. For the price, the portions were pretty good, although the chicken pieces are about the same size as the WalMart rotisserie - but there doesn't seem to be a decent sized chicken anywhere but Costco these days.
5. The chicken was tender, and the best of the three. The rub was overdone, and very salty, so I was disappointed that I couldn't eat much of the crispy skin. I'm a pulled pork fan; it was tender, but bland and very dry. The same with the brisket - hubby's fave. Nice bark, but the flavor did not translate to the meat, and it too was very dry. Don't know when they smoke their meat, but seemed like it was done yesterday. Did not smell any BBQ smoke outside, so not sure they smoke onsite. The chicken was warm, but the other meats were not. We took most of the meat home, so we could try to steam it a little and re-hydrate it, so we didn't have to throw it out.
6. Potato salad was dill / sour cream. It was as good as any other. The mac & cheese was bland, but okay. The cowboy beans had an odd spice taste - almost like a Thai spice?, and we did not get any pieces of meat in ours. We sent it back, and asked for the potato salad instead, which they promptly brought us. The jalapeno cornbread was a nice large portion, but was not fresh or hot. It had that refrigerated, gummy consistency, and the butter did not melt at all. Too bad.
7. Sauce is an epic fail. One vinegar-type with a ton of celery seed, and one sweet one that had very little flavor. It definitely ain't Rudy's sauce. I smothered the meat, and not much of a taste difference. Tasted like BBQ sauce made in New York City. No kick whatsoever.
8. A young male employee came by, and asked how everything was. I told him that it was okay, but the meat was very dry. He just wrung his hands, mumbled, and said "Well, is there anything else you need right now?", and left. A young female employee came by a couple of minutes later, and did the bean trading. Everyone seemed attentive, but no one seemed organized. Employees were either texting on their phones, or wandering.
Nothing to draw us back here again. From the other reviews, it seems that the owner has an ego as big as Texas, but nothing to back it up. Expecting to see the For Rent sign back up soon.
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