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Yelp
Just a Touch pricey for what you're getting on your plate, but for being a chain barbecue place, this sauce is boss.
I think it's no secret, or maybe it is, that their barbecue sauce is a good mix of Sweet Baby Ray's (less kick & heat) and Kettleman's.
I came in here on a busy Friday night. The vibe felt great, packed restaurant with mostly families and their kids.
The bar area was mostly single guys in their 50s to '60s. No single ladies here, unfortunately, if you were expecting a singles bar. Lol.
No no, by comparison, the ladies that were in here were paired up on dates.
To change the subject, their bread was really good! It's got that fresh baked quality, with a nice garlic and parsley oil smothered all around.
For dinner, I ordered the brisket and tri-tip. The brisket is fall off the bone tender, very melt in your mouth delectable... almost too soft.
The tri-tip was also very tender.
Both were drowned in barbecue sauce, so I never really got a taste of what the meat was like with just spices and herbs on it.
Please specify that when ordering, if you want sauce on the side. Otherwise you'll have the same experience I did, and never get a true sense of what the meat itself tasted like.
I want to give this place five stars. I really do. But I feel like the $33 or so that I spent for a two item combo is just ridiculous when you look at the portion size.
To the management here, either lower the price, or just give me more MEAT.
I mean each piece of tri-tip and brisket was barely half to three quarters the size of like a small grocery russet potato. Seriously?
The skin on fries were good, just on the brink of being soggy though. They were crisp, but something to do with maybe not being cooked at a high enough temperature to make them not bogged down with oil inside?
I did get a lot of peanut coleslaw though. They definitely packed that sucker in there really good into a leaf of red cabbage. No skimping on the cabbage.
But when you look at the big picture, I came in here for the barbecue, MEAT, not for the foliage.
Parking is fairly easy in the structure on the other side of the street, depending on what time of day you park, specific day of the week, Etc
Oh, one other note about the bar I feel needs to be said. This is a straight up American Standard bar. Coors, Budweiser, you get the idea. Their liquor and liqueur section is kind of skimpy.
Lots of wine varieties though. A $#!t ton of wine selection.
What I'm trying to get at is even though this is a chain barbecue restaurant, it would be nice if they spruced up the bar a bit with some variety. You know maybe take a leap, and carry some of the Italian Aperitivo so you can make a black manhattan, or a paper airplane.
Hopefully upper level management takes notice across the entire chain, and makes some changes to the bar & prices (or at least portion sizes) accordingly.
For the price to quantity of food value, and the lack of variety at the bar,
come on five stars! I'm rooting for you.
I'll make an unannounced visit sometime during the summer. Let's see if things change.
