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| - I've been here for three visits, two dinners and one lunch. I've been waiting to write a review, because I wanted to be fair. The service has always been pretty good here. I eat in the dining room, not the bar, and I'm greeted and seated promptly. The menu covers the basics for good BBQ; ribs, pulled pork, hot links, brisket, bbq chicken. Sides are good, and portions are generous. The ribs are awful. I mean, just wretched. Two stars bad, for a joint that could be doing better. The ribs were smoked, and clearly had some dry rub on them at some point. I like my ribs Memphis style, smoke and dry rub no sauce, so this should be right up my alley, right? That's where things go awry. The ribs are clearly reheated, which is perfectly normal. What's not normal is the texture. These ribs are squishy. There is no discernible difference in texture between the lean and the fat. These ribs are reheated by some moist heat process, which both rinses all the dry rub off and removes any of the char/caramelization from the grill. I saw grill marks on the ribs, so I'm not debating that the grill came into play at some point, but it was used way too little. I am begging that they change the method used to reheat the ribs. Ribs are the yardstick by which I measure good BBQ, and these aren't it. So much good stuff, but just terrible ribs.
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