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| - I love BBQ and after hearing about this place on Yelp and in local media, I had to check it out. Unfortunately, it was disappointing from the beginning to the end. I made a reservation for a group of 11 about two weeks before the dinner. The day of, I called several hours before to decrease the reservation from 11 people to 7 people. The girl on the phone was very confused about what I wanted to do and after a long awkward pause and an uncomfortable phone conversation, I felt like MAYBE we had the reservation I wanted. Upon arrival, we let the hostess know we were there and after clearing up that we were a party of 7 for a 6pm reservation, NOT a party of 6 for a 7pm reservation, we finally had a seat.
The server that greeted our table was friendly and cheerful, but upon request of splitting the check into 3 parties said they were unable to do 3 checks but could accomodate 2 checks. We requested two checks. We ordered our food, and after 45 minutes waiting with no bread or any sort of thing to nibble on, our food finally arrived. It was mediocre at best. The best item was the fried chicken. Very flavorful and not dry or overly greasy. I had the Brisket Sandwich which was very scant with the meat and very overbearing with the bread. The piece of brisket was about the size of an extra thick piece of bacon plus a few milimeters served on a huge, bready hoagie roll. The bread was all you could taste and the meat was totally lost. Even after taking the sliver of meat off the bun and eating it, with both of the sauces available on the table, I was less than impressed. The strength of a BBQ place is in its meats and if you slack in the meat department, no matter how good your Mac and Cheese is you're not going to succeed. The mac and cheese was good, not amazing. The cornbread was super dry on the edges and bland. No butter served with the cornbread either which I thought was super weird. The have two sauces available on the table, one a thick more traditional BBQ sauce and one a chili infused vinegar sauce. The thicker sauce was no more memorable than the Kraft variety at the grocery store, and the vinegar was nothing remarkable as well. We ended the meal with whoopie pies, a chocolate one filled with marshmallow icing and a salted caramel one. I only tried the chocolate one which was decent, a little dry, but the icing was nice and creamy and not overly sweet.
They do have a nice beer selection, and actually had a good special of $3 bottles of Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold the day we were there. I'll get more into that later...
When the check arrived, the two checks were actually just one check. After attempting to divide the check between the three parties, it was noted that the beers were not charged as $3 but as $5 each. Our waitress was nowhere to be found, so another waitress was able to correct this. She said they had been charging that price all day and no one had noticed it. Good thing to know... We then had to divide our check up again amongst three parties, now with the correct pricing. Upon complaining to the waitress that they should be able to split checks since it accounts for tax and the 20% gratuity that had been automatically added, she said it gets too complicated and even if three people walk in, checks are never split amongst those three people. I'm sorry but in this day and age, restaurants have great computer systems and I've been places where 25 people get 25 checks. It just leaves a bad taste in the patron's mouth to end the meal with a calculator and a stack of bills or credit cards.
The decor was picnic which was cute for a BBQ place with high ceilings, but the amount of echo was incredible. The place was about half full and was so loud you couldn't talk to someone unless they were right next to you. Oh and the front window is broken with a piece of wood covering it. Seems like it's going to be there a while too since they've actually painted a design on the front of it.
Long story short...totally overrated, overpriced BBQ with a difficult setup if you plan on bringing a group of people.
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