I went for dinner the other week with some friends. While I want to give this place 3 stars for service (it was mostly great), my food was just so awful I can't. As a vegetarian I don't expect too much from a BBQ place (although Union Pig and Chicken knows how to do it right), so I ate a late lunch beforehand in preparation and I didn't go in all that hungry. Even then, I was so sorely disappointed. I'd read the menu ahead of time and knew I only had one option: A salad with grilled sweet potato. I love sweet potatoes, so I was looking forward to it!
I also knew I could get a side of pepper-jack mac n' cheese or corn bread (they also offer baked beans, but those are often made with ham or other meat products so I don't trust them to be vegetarian).
The pros: my salad had very fresh greens. A fresh spring mix. Fresh tomatoes, a couple olives, fresh red onions. Choice of dressing.
The cons: The sweet potatoes weren't cooked at all. They were slightly grilled on one side but I literally bent my fork trying to cut through the first one. It was a raw sweet potato. I picked them all off and a couple of my dinnermates decided to give them a try, decrying the same thing "these are completely raw!" but my server never once asked about them. It was terrible and paying $11 for some spring mix and dressing is not something I am willing to ever do again!
My dinnermate's brisket was so bad she wouldn't eat it, so she and I shared my salad and mac n' cheese. The mac was ok, but really bland and needed salt. I've never needed to salt a mac n' cheese before and well, we couldn't because there was no salt on the table. We both decided to just eat what we could and we'd get something to eat on the way home. She ended up getting a burger from Wendy's and I made some pasta when I got home.
Eat here and you'll have to eat somewhere else afterwards, basically. It was that bad. No one at our table had good food and we were the only people in the restaurant. It was not an issue of them being busy, it was an issue with the food, period. I can't say anything to the meat, apparently all of it was not great. Sorry, it just really boggles my mind that people can't figure out how to make a single, simple vegetarian dish. Serving raw potatoes is not acceptable to either omnivores nor herbivores. You have to cook them first. But sweet potatoes aside, apparently the rest of food was not great either. I'll politely decline any future invites to this restaurant. Or make an excuse as to why I have to meet them out afterwards.