Brickyard BBQ – Any current reviews?

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    Myr-myr
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    Reviews were so-so a year ago. Anyone know if the menu and the service have improved recently? I’ve a friend here from Texas who might have a hankering for some good BBQ. Got recommendations for any other BBQ places?

    #759751

    odroku
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    Been there a few times. I think “so-so” is a fair assessment. Never great, but never bad.

    Having eaten BBQ in Texas and being friends with a good number of BBQ-loving Texans, I’m not sure you can hope to do much that would keep a Texan from telling you just how far from real Texas BBQ whatever you offer them will be.

    Jones and Pecos Pit are both fine. Never tried the place where you are meant to “meet the man,” but heard good things. My Texas friends laughed at me when I put sauce on my BBQ. Apparently sauce is not part of the deal with some of them. They also seemed to prefer beef ribs and brisket to pork. I don’t even know whether you can find pork ribs around here.

    I don’t expect this is much useful, but…now we talked BBQ on a West Seattle Saturday.

    #759752

    Myr-myr
    Participant

    Thanks, Odroku.

    I think we’ll pass on the local BBQ offering in favor of the many other lovely NW options.

    #759753

    sbre
    Participant

    Actually got some take-out from the Brickyard this evening and thoroughly enjoyed everything: wedge salad, pulled pork, chicken, brisket (nary a dry piece to be found), the baked beans and coleslaw too. However, all that delicious food had one underlying unpleasantness, they use Styrofoam to-go containers.

    Boooooo….

    #759754

    kootchman
    Member

    They don’t use Styrofoam.. Styrofoam is not used thusly. Styrofoan is an extruded product, .. white foam is styrne with a pentane ot some other heat expanding pellet cooked in an inline process or a steam bun line. One is extruded, one is expanded, and they are worlds apart. Styrofoam is trademark of Dow Chemical. 99 per cent of the time used to insulate buildings and stuctures and way tooo expensive to use in consumer packaging.

    #759755

    Myr-myr
    Participant

    Your comment is relevant to the discussion how? Good grief, Kootchman, a bit further over the edge today, are we? As long as you are headed in that direction, here’s a quote from OSHA:

    “Styrene is primarily a synthetic chemical that is used extensively in the manufacture of plastics, rubber, and resins. It is also known as vinylbenzene, ethenylbenzene, cinnamene, or phenylethylene. About 90,000 workers, including those who make boats, tubs, and showers, are potentially exposed to styrene. Health effects from exposure to styrene may involve the central nervous system and include complaints of headache, fatigue, dizziness, confusion, drowsiness, malaise, difficulty in concentrating, and a feeling of intoxication.” Get the point?

    #759756

    Myr-myr
    Participant

    SBRE, thanks for your comment. I think maybe we will check out that brisket.

    #759757

    redfoxx
    Participant

    I ate there around a month ago and found the pulled pork to be extremely bland and the corn bread tasted artificial. I could only stomach half of it before tossing it.

    #759758

    smokeycretin9
    Participant

    ( in Homer Simpson voice )”MMMMmmmm bbq, ahhhhhhh”

    I like Pig Iron in GEorgetown, and Uncle Mikes BBQ in White Center.

    Pig Iron’s sausage and green peppers. Yumm and Uncle Miles Brisket yummmm

    #759759

    dhg
    Participant

    What, no love here for Berry’s BBQ? http://www.yelp.com/biz/berrys-bbq-burien

    His beef brisket is very tasty!

    #759760

    maplesyrup
    Participant

    I avoided it for more than a year because of experiences with crummy service and cold, dry food.

    But the other night we wanted bbq and were too lazy to go to Jones. And I read on Yelp that they supposedly hired a real bbq chef (from Texas to boot!) a few months ago.

    And…it was really good. Everyone liked their food, most of us liked it a lot. I’d definitely go back.

    But like others have said, it’s probably not going to hold up to a Southerner’s expectations, regardless of how good it is.

    #759761

    Myr-myr
    Participant

    I see that the Swinery does pulled pork sandwiches (Carolina style) and BBQ pulled pork sandwiches. Has anyone tried these?

    #759762

    villagegreen
    Member

    Myr-myr, the Carolina style (my favorite) pulled pork sandwich from The Swinery is killer. I’ve only had it once, but good lord it was delicious!

    #759763

    WSB
    Keymaster

    Reminder that if you post what amounts to a rant, regardless of whether it’s the post that starts the thread or somewhere inside, you MUST say how you brought your complaints to the attention of management/ownership. And our forum index page warns that rulebreaking rants will be deleted without warning, so after having been flagged, and reviewing the post that generated the flag, we’ve deleted it. The post-er is welcome to repost if they include the above-mentioned information, per the rules – thanks, Tracy

    #759764

    Myr-myr
    Participant

    Tracy, thank you. As a small business owner myself I am very glad to learn of this policy. Otherwise, anyone could get away with trashing a competitor.

    #759765

    Ken
    Participant

    Hmm. There is someplace in the NW that does

    Carolina BBQ right?

    I shall have to stop in at the Swinery and see. There are several variations of Carolina BBQ and I will report which it is for posterity :)

    I have some of my own out of the freezer this week to compare it to.

    I make “east of US-1” style vinegar based chopped BBQ for myself but am familiar with Lexington and South Carolina styles too.

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