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| - I have been looking for a great bbq place in the Phoenix area for years. After my lunch today I have to keep looking. I was born in Phoenix but have lived in Texas. While in Texas I was told a couple of tips on finding a great bbq place. First, if you can't smell bbq when you are in the parking lot, leave asap. I couldn't smell bbq even when I was walking in the front door, but I still decided to give Pork On A Fork a try. The second tip I was told was that a great bbq place always has sweet tea or at least decent ice tea, here I found an "Out of Order" sign taped over the ice tea machine! Yup, a machine!
Still I said I would try this place and I did. I got the pulled pork sandwich, and sides of bbq beans and potato salad. The beans were decent but I would suggest adding some brown sugar to them. (Hey, my grandmother did that with her bbq beans and they rocked!) The potato salad was boring and bland. It didn't help that about half of the potatoes that were cut into small cubes were under cooked. The pulled pork was a lukewarm mixture, either dry or VERY chewy. The last piece I had tasted off and left a horrible taste in my mouth, Also, I picked up a squeeze bottle from another table for some sauce only to find out the entire bottle had sauce all over the outside of it.
I ate in the dining area down the hall from where you order and it has ZERO bbq joint ambiance. Music was playing but it was Bill Haley and the Comets followed by other 1950's rock and roll songs. (BBQ joint or Johnny Rockets?)
There were three employees in the place and two of them passed my table several times but said nothing. There were only four other customers in the place and they were together in a booth across the room. When I left no one said anything to me. ("How was it? Thank you! Do we suck?", etc.)
Judging from my review and other recent reviews, the owners need to get back in control of this place asap and return it to the great reviews it used to get.
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