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| - I was working in the area and in the mood for BBQ.
I ordered the lunch two meat basket, two meats and one side and a corn muffin. With a drink, $13.06 including tax.
For the meats I had chopped pork and sliced brisket. For the side I had red mashed potatoes.
I'll start with the meats, a little background is needed. I have three smokers at home a vertical, a side box and a gas vertical. That being said, I'm no stranger to bbq, so my bar may be a little higher, than the average bbq eater.
Both of the meats were good. The brisket cooked to near perfection and moist, tender but not falling apart. Good bbq is kept moist while cooking, it doesn't need sauce, after cooking, for moisture. The sauce, after cooking, is something you add to personal taste, if at all. These meats stood on there own, great taste, without need for sauces.
Now the side, one of the things I like about bbq places is trying the different sides each place offers. The red mashed potatoes were terrible. I didn't like the taste, but the main problem was texture, very grainy like poor quality instant mashed potatoes.
They had a variety sauces, normal, hot, sweet and mustard. I tasted them, any of which would overpower the taste of the meats I was eating. If you go to the trouble of slow cooking and smoking a meat, then put a sauce on it where you can't taste the meat, what's the point. You could have just sliced up hot dogs and put sauce on them, if all you're going to taste is sauce.
Summary:
The meats were very good. The side I had was not. If I had ordered a different side, it could easily have been a 4 star review.
I would recommend to anyone, with the caveat, don't order the red mashed potatoes.
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