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| - Where do I start here..
I work right around the corner and despite having been in the neighborhood for going on 6 months, this was my first, and last visit to this place.
I generally like to give a second chance to places, but there has to be something redeeming for me to want to go back.
In this case there wasn't.
If you are looking for a good rack of baby back ribs, you are in for a disappointing time. They use Spare ribs, not baby back. So more bone, less meat, but by the prices you would never know it.
And where is the smoker in this place? Not there. They reheat the old meat in a steamer to try to give it back moisture, but I digress, on with the nightmare.
Anyways, I went there after work, wife didn't make dinner. I decided to take home.
Bought a half dozen ribs with 2 sides. Brought sauces home with me. One was sweet and spicy, the other was just sweet. Not that you could really tell the difference between the two. They dont cook the sauce onto the ribs, the ribs are dry rubbed with a montreal mix from what I could tell.
Here is the thing about the place. They probably cater heavily to the lunchtime crowd. The office workers in the area, of which I am one, and random driveby's. If you go later be prepared to eat the leftovers from lunch.
When I got there one table was occupied with 4 people. Its just a small place and two women were sitting in the back.
I didnt really know what to order. They have a menu that is about 'meat'. 2 meats, 3 meats, etc. No idea what that means, and later I figured out that at least as far as ribs go, its 2 ribs per 'meat'. So I order 3 meats and 2 sides. Sides being mac and cheese and hush puppies
So I see the girl doing her thing behind the counter. Here is a hint for the person working the counter. Don't lick your fingers when preparing someone's food. Checking the old cheese sauce left from the lunch rush with your finger tips and then tasting it isn't making me want to eat your food and certainly violates more than a couple health codes..
That Mac and cheese, even as unappetizing as it appeared when I opened the container, went straight into my garbage at home. But I didn't want to ruin the meals of the people eating in the restaurant.
I watched and everything else was done with tongs. Probably because it was too hot for her to touch with her licked on fingers.
So I get home, and after throwing out the mac and cheese I see the hush puppies which were rather pathetic in that styrofoam takeout container. Which turned out to be rather said and pathetic lumps of dough deep fried though thankfully un-licked.
And the ribs.
So the ribs were dry rubbed. you could tell that they were really bad ribs though. Lots of gristle and fat on them without a great deal of meat. And when I say gristle, I mean strings of completely inedible and un-chewable pieces of sinew that run width wise through what little meat was on these poor bones. The meat that was on them was like jerky. I mean tough enough that I had to seriously CHEW on it. It really did remind me of pork jerky and not fall off the bone rib meat. You ever have a piece of dry meat that was so dry that it hardens almost into little meat slivers that threaten to puncture the roof of your mouth?
Thats what these were.
They actually weren't even warm by the time I got them home and I live 15 minutes away from there, straight shot up the highway. And they were packed in heat saver styrofoam.
The whole experience was absolutely horrible. From the woman licking her fingers to the knowledge that I was eating food that had probably sat there for more than a few hours, and that means the mac and cheese that she so kindly sampled as she was putting together.
I realize that restaurants can't make fresh constantly, especially ribs, but do you have to make it that obvious that the food you are selling and serving is well past its shelf life?
I hate the idea that I helped kill the environment with their to go containers and some pig lost its life so that this really pitiful excuse for a Smokehouse BBQ and grill could ruin the appetites of so many people out there.
Seriously...I am taking a hard look a going a vegetarian from this and I am indeed a card carrying carnivore.
Its just too bad there isn't a rating lower than one star on here....
Edit: I have no idea why YELP is doing this, but this review is being flagged as hidden, and so the results are not being shown. Seeing as how I am a legitimate customer, have several reviews on several restaurants, somehow they hid this review because.....Well i don't know why actually...I wonder if the owners can flag it down and hide it. If so, Yelp really isnt what I thought it was.
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