Michael Z.
Yelp
In search of a replacement for Big Kev's, that shuts down for an obnoxiously long vacation each winter, I tried this place I keep driving past but never getting a chance to stop.
First impression: the menu board is cluttered, it took me some time to figure out what the full selection of offerings were. I decided to order the pulled pork sandwich, with a side and drink, a combo listed on the menu board for $11. When I did that, the cashier stopped me and said, hey, we have a lunch special for that! So, I ask for that instead, and get the EXACT SAME THING for the EXACT SAME PRICE. Huh.
The food came really fast, and was handed to be at the counter, loose plates, no tray for carrying to the table. I nearly spilled my baked beans all over the floor trying to carry everything at once.
The food: Bleh. The pork was rather dry, and topped with a generic, supermarket-brand quality sauce. The roll was going stale, where a soft, fluffy roll to absorb the juices of the pork (had there been any) would have been preferable.
The baked beans were advertised as being with burnt ends. Well, it looked and tasted like generic canned baked beans with a few specks of pork thrown in after the fact. How can I tell? There was no smoky pork flavor in the sauce to the beans at all. It did literally taste like ShopRite canned baked beans.
An added inconvenience: as a further disservice to customers, they charge a profitable surcharge on the use of credit cards, discouraging people from making full purchases at their store. But to be fair, the quality doesn't encourage large or repeat purchases anyways.
Sadly, my search for another BBQ place continues.