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| - What to say about City Barbeque... just awesome.
My first experience at City Barbeque was incredible. I got to visit as part of an Elite Yelp Event, so we got a BIG taste of pretty much the entire menu of meats and several sides they serve over at City. I was so full about a quarter of the way through, but it was too delicious not to carry on...which we happily did.
Let me start off with the "One of the best I've ever had" section:
-Turkey: GEEZ. So much flavor in a white piece of turkey. This blows Thanksgiving turkeys out of the water. It didn't need sauce, it didn't need anything.
-Sausage: It admittedly doesn't look like much on the plate but my god does the flavor hit you in the face. My girlfriend had tried the sausage first and urged me to bite into it and after I did all I said was "wow."
-Baked beans: I don't even really LIKE baked beans. These were served piping hot and the flavor of the beans, sauce, and pork within the sauce was top notch.
-Strawberry Lemonade: I've had a few strawberry lemonades in my day and this was by far the most delicious and the freshest. It was refreshing as hell and I was sad when it was gone.
-Banana pudding: City puts their own spin on a banana pudding with their own made-from-scratch whipped topping and the addition of caramel. I'm usually not the biggest fan of both whipped toppings OR caramel but I must say I demolished mine. Great use of wafers in the pudding, too.
-BBQ/Brisket/SAUCES: I do NOT want this to get overlooked! I'm the kind of person that needs sauce with my bbq and brisket. Although I enjoy the standalone smokey flavor of meats, I just need da sauce. City had an array of sauces to choose from that compliments all the meats and that makes me the happiest. Special shoutout to the Swine Wine and the Piedmont sauces for holding it down for multiple meats.
-Vinegar Slaw: I have never had vinegar slaw before! This went with the meats SO WELL. Even if you aren't a slaw fan, you gotta try it.
Outside of the aforementioned foodz, everything else was still incredibly tasty. The ribs, the corn pudding, the green beans, the crispy hushpuppies. Anything you want to get here I have no doubt will leave you satisfied with portion size and flavor.
On top of all the food being good, the employees were super courteous and extremely helpful. They definitely made you feel like a "guest" and not just a customer that walks through the door, which you don't really notice until you have bad service. So hats off to them!
Living in DC the past 4 years, I didn't have much good bbq, but I'm so glad the first bbq place I came to after moving to Charlottte was City Barbeque and I can't wait to revisit!
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