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| - San Diegan's don't know crap about good BBQ, and it's unlikely that they do in Las Vegas either.
This place is on the Promenade on the way to the High Roller. It's a fake honkey tonk with cheap wooden tables and chairs. They do live music around 9:00 pm which may be a plus for some folks, isn't for me.
When I go to a BBQ joint, it's about the 'Q!
This was a swing, and a bunt, but not quite a miss. My lovely better half got the rib plate, and I got a combo(brisket and ribs), comes with two sides and a very moist and tasty cornbread....muffin I guess you would call it....I call it a cornbread disc. The plates are about $25.00 which is not out of line at all. My sides were beans and coleslaw.
The ribs were exceptional! Memphis style dry rub(bit of coffee in there?), probably brined, but smokey, porky goodness. On just the ribs, they are 5 stars...however....the brisket was a joke. It's sliced by machine....no discernible bark, but yep, the smoke ring is there. You know those roast beef cryo packs in the meat section where they keep corporate "deli meats"? Bologna, ham, salami......??? Imagine smoked meat in one of those pre-pack cardboard hanging sections, and that is what this meat looked, smelled and tasted like....the brisket was a two star bordering on one star experience.
That said, gonna get to it:
Ambiance/Cleanliness-like I said, fake honkey tonk.....clean enough, if you like live music, that would be a plus for you.....3 stars
Service-It was good, but when our server asked how the food was, I went off on the brisket, and she froze up like a deer in the headlights. Little training might be in order, probably would have opted for the chicken given an option to send that brisket back....3 stars
Food-wrote it up above, except to say that the sides were excellent. There's meat in the beans and it benefits greatly from it, and the coleslaw was quite tasty as well. Sauce was good, swear that there is some horseradish in there, I make a better sauce at home, though.....3 stars.
Would go back in a Memphis minute for the ribs....could be a five star experience on that!
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