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| - When I see a new restaurant open, I usually like to wait a few months to let them work out the kinks before I give it a try. But pork bbq makes me all weak in the knees, so after driving by a few times I decided I had to give in to see if it was worth drooling all over my steering wheel all week long.
Holy crap. It SO was.
I went on a Friday with a few friends. I had the pulled pork sandwich with baked beans, and we got an order of hush puppies for the table. I opted for the vinegar sauce. The pork was tender and smoky, the vinegar sauce was just a little spicy, and the baked beans had bacon (!) in them. The hush puppies were just the right kind of fried - crispy but not greasy, and were perfectly balanced between sweet and savory. For dessert I had banana pudding that made me lick the bowl and my hubby had some kind of cookie/peanut-butter cup concoction that was also fabulous. Oh, and the service was warm and friendly and we never had to wait on drink refills.
We had such a good time that we went back. The next night. This is a little embarrassing for me, admitting that I gorged myself on bbq two nights in a row and didn't regret it for a second (until Sunday morning). But I think it speaks to the deliciousness of the food. Also, the next night someone ordered the brown-sugared bacon as their side, and I feel I should warn you not to eat it, ever, because if you do you won't want to stop. If they diced that stuff up and mixed it into some vanilla ice cream I would leave my husband for it. I'm not even kidding. I would leave my husband and declare brown-sugared bacon ice cream my one true love. (Do you hear me, Smokehouse?)
Midwood needed a place like this, and I'm so happy to welcome it to the neighborhood. Anybody have any plans for dinner? I have this sudden craving for bbq.
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