Ashley F.
Yelp
This is the worst takeout I have ever ordered. My fiance and I ordered our dinner from here tonight. He got the chicken strips and fries, I ordered the sampler plate which included brisket, quarter rack of baby back ribs, and pulled pork. It also came with Texas toast and my choice of side, ceaser salad. I also ordered potato salad and a bowl of soup.
My fiance is a chicken strip aficionado. He has crohns disease and is therefore limited in what he can eat. Chicken strips remain one of his go to meals to the point that it is the first thing he looks for on any menu. They are pretty hard to get wrong, and wrong they were. On the outside they looked promising, the chicken strips were perfectly golden and the fries looked good as well. However they lacked flavor. This is going to be a recurring theme of this review. He barely touched them. I tried a bite as well and was also disapointed.
I had high hopes for the sampler plate. I love bbq. I too was very disappointed. Wal-Mart sells bbq brisket you can microwave for a quick meal. When I opened my takeout container it looked like the microwave brisket from Wal-Mart. In truth it tasted far worse. It was rubbery and the meat lacked flavor. Same for the pulled pork. I am most disappointed in the ribs. They didn't have much meat and the meat they had had the dubious distinction of being both greasy and overcooked.The Texas toast was the soggiest I have ever eaten and had barely any flavor. The only good part of the meal was the salad. It was fresh, the croutons were good, it had an adequate amount of parmesan and I really enjoyed the ranch they used. However, the highlight of the meal should not be a side salad.
It is worth mentioning that both meals came with bbq sauce. I tried it but couldn't bring myself to use it. It had some over powering flavor. I had my fiance, a southerner, try the bbq sauce. As someone who has lived in both Arkansas and Tennehesse he knows good sauce when he tastes it. The look on his face was unforgettable . I have never seen him grimace like that. He ran into the kitchen to get a drink of water. When he returned he exclaimed that it tasted like they just dumped a bunch of fake smoke in there.
The portion of potato salad was large, but looked unpromising. It came in a deli container , but store potato salad would have been better. There appeared to be a minute sprinkling of ingredients other than potato and mayonnaise but it didn't taste like it. It is the blandest potato salad I have ever tasted. It could have used discernable amounts of salt, pepper, and other spices. Or better yet not existed at all. I'm not sure what kind of soup I recieved. It was the soup of the day and was creamy in nature with what appeared to be shredded chicken straight from a can. The first taste was like a creamy gravy, the second taste was an overpowering garlic flavor. I didn't bother with a third taste.
I am not sure if Pit Stop was understaffed, over crowded, or the cooks were new and untrained. But frankly it doesn't matter. I worked in a bistro in an upscale neighborhood In San Diego. I understand that on a bad night some mistakes can happen. However, there should never be this many mistakes in one meal. It cost us 41 dollars plus the nine dollars to Postmates and was worth none of what I spent. I was fuming mad , to the point in surprised my fiance and he commented he has never seen me this mad before. Maybe Pit Stop had an off night, but I won't be trying it again to find out.