So disappointed. Note this place is clean. The help is nice. The environs are pleasant. And they have a really cool giant pig portrait hanging on the back wall. But that's where the niceties end.
Everything about the food pissed me off. From small things like selling three kinds of iced tea but not offering sliced lemons to accompany (instead they have tiny industrial packets of lemon juice). Their baked beans were a sugar-dominated gloppy mess. No smoke flavor. Their sauces are similarly sugary. No depth. No smoke. Just sugary sweetness.
But of course much could be forgiven if the BBQ rocked. It doesn't. I came in with a group and we decided to order a 'family meal' for 4 which included our choice of meats. So we opted for ribs (on the list of meats) only to he told, after some confusion at the counter which required a few workers to be consulted, that we could not order ribs for a 4 - person family meal. Okay. Whatever. So we opted for brisket instead.
The brisket arrived as a shredded pile of plain, ordinary meat. I was expecting slices of pit-bbqed beef - not dried shredded pile of beef. No smokey flavor. No dark bits of 'bark'. Virtually indistinguishable from a roasted piece of a cheap cut overcooked and shredded and left for hours to sit around.
The 'hot' bbq sauce was not hot and with little tang - just overwhelming sweetness. The condiment bar had pickle slices - the cheapest, most industrialized, neon-yellowed pickles you can imagine. Felt like I was eating from products right off the shelf at Smart & Final.
I rarely get pissed off by a meal - but this one got to me. BBQ can be great, and it's just not that hard to do something at least ordinary. But these folks have managed to screw it all up, royally. I won't be back - unless after permanently shutting it's doors they auction off the furniture. In that case - I'm gonna come back and buy that pig portrait hanging on the back wall. That thing is hysterical!