So this is a review of a to go order during the restaurant shutdown for corona virus - a period where we are specifically supporting local restaurants. Based on this experience, well, I can't imagine visiting in person.
First the order. The intent was to have brisket with cole slaw and baked beans. The Togo container was conveniently labeled as CB CS & BB. When I opened the container a miracle had occurred and the sides the Lord decided I needed were potato salad and okra.
And now the food. The chopped brisket is a mound of dry chopped meat mush, probably sauced but hard to tell, and fully lacking the smoky umami expected of BBQ. Holy Smokes there's no smoke. It's as if they borrowed their recipe and process from the Muskogee High School cafeteria. The sauce is interesting but not good. Not at all good. It has a hint of being like the Knotty Pines when that was open in Sand Springs but it's a poor quality mimeograph. Clearly made in house but by far not the best sauce in Muskogee, I gave praise that there was so little. The potato salad was a Glorified Side, but in that ironic sarcastic way that says purchased at Walmart in a 5 pound container. A friend had cole slaw, probably a convenience slaw, possibly a homemade dressing. But a common cole slaw with little to recommend it. The okra was excellent, but that's an expectation in Oklahoma. For $13.00, it was an $8.00 meal with untoasted bread.
This was by far one of the least impressive BBQ meals I have ever had and I've had BBQ all over Oklahoma and Texas. So extremely disappointing and my money will be saved for somewhere that has basic BBQ down.
Ok so now after writing this far I've learned (because my party ate in different locations in the office for social distancing) that the labels on several of the to go containers were wrong and I likely got pulled pork - which is so freaking disgusting and something I would never order or eat had I known and I'm going to go throw up. GAH. Absolutely unacceptable. read more