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| - Double S needs a little more Madison vibe in its Texan groove. I chose my birthday dinner to try this place for the first time. My husband and I with our kids (5, 2, and 3mo!) grabbed a very small table that was just a bit too tall for the cool eclectic chairs, and already way too crowded with sauce caddy and huge cast iron paper towel roll. None of us were really comfortable.
That's kind of the theme for the whole place. Everything looked good but in practice it just didn't quite work. I know bbq is traditionally served in disposable tableware, but the amount of flimsy useless paper small plates, Styrofoam bowls and plastic forks were really off-putting for a restaurant on Monroe Street.
Service was great, but I was bummed to see the generic beer selection and lack of milk. Pizza Brutta next door has Organic Valley milk boxes, surely they could do the same!
As for the food, because you can put up with a lot if the food's great, but its... not. Not bad, and not over priced or outright inedible, just, meh. The cornbread is chewy, the corn is soggy, the ribs were blackened and a little stringy but juicy, the brisket was moist but a little tough. Two sauce selections, original and hot, both I'm assuming mass-manufactured offsite for SS since they contain HFCS and come in store-branded bottles. Original had good flavor and a nice black peppery bite that I enjoyed.
If I'm really hankering for bbq and don't want to drive across town I might get a meal to go sometime, but I probably won't come back with my family.
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