Customer service is top notch.! I had a complex order and…read morethey absolutely knocked it outta the park.! The food was perfect I had the jalapeño mac and cheese and ribs. My order was only 1 of 5 and it was all to go. I drove over to the Casey's got gas drove back and my order was done.!! So, it didn't even take very long either.!

Food was ok. Some of the brisket tasted like it sat in a crockpot all day. Mac and cheese was cold…read moreand service was friendly but slow and only two tables including us were there. The pulled pork was good though. It has potential to be good. Just not when we were there. It is nice and clean/ cute inside. Maybe it was just a bad night.

Amazing atmosphere, service and food. It was so good I forgot to take a photo. If you're in the…read morearea and enjoy real BBQ this is the place. Good menu for the kiddos as well

The meats were really dry and flavorless. The sauce to me wasn't very good, too sweet. The others…read morejust didn't taste right either. The service wasn't bad, nice waitress helped us try the different sauces first without charging and our drinks were pretty well filled. Ambiance wasn't bad, but one of the tables (the one we were at) was next to a door/wall with chalkboard paint, and a kid came over and started to draw with chalk basically over our food and this went on for a few minutes at least before a parent paid for their meals and took the kid. Overall, not coming back mainly due to the food. Obi didn't look like he was around, and that's probably why the place gone downhill.

Hubby & I tried this place for the first time along with my son. We perused the menu while waiting…read moreon our soft drinks. The service was attentive & polite. The ambiance is a turn of the century brick firehouse. Hubby & I ordered the Firehouse Sampler ($34.95) with 2 sides (mac n cheese, scalloped cabbage). My son got the Pulled Pork ($14.95) with 2 sides (mac n cheese, green beans). Both of these meals needed garlic bread served with them. There were 3 made in-house bbq sauces & they were all bland. Sadly, there was no Carolina gold bbq sauce. The meat was good but a little dry. Of the 3 sides we tried, the green beans were the best. I would like to return & try something on the Handhelds menu. I need bread with my bbq meat!

Hallelujah the sweet potato casserole is back. This is a seasonal item and my personal favorite…read more Parrot with Tom's Mojo, which is pulled pork mac & cheese on sourdough bread and grilled... You have an experience that will please any pallet. I love it that they have three different barbecue sauces for you to choose from, Hot, sweet and mild. To me it lets you choose the flavors you like because one has a little more of a brown sugar taste and the other has a little more of a vinegar taste. I like to dip my sandwich. I got the visit in the evening and introduce a friend from Michigan to one of my favorite restaurants. He was so happy with a brisket. There is so much history and so many cool things to read on the walls. The decor is charming and it's an awesome place to sit and have a beer and catch up with a friend afterwards. It's my favorite for lunch and dinner in the depot district.

Seated quickly, dining areas are casual fun and clean, great prompt service, and food is always…read moreexcellent!! Thanks for another great meal!

We came in here based on a recommendation from a friend. Oh my goodness, was it amazing. We started…read morewith a triple berry margarita. Full of flavor and so good we both had two. My husband and I both had the Jeff plate with two meats and two sides plus cornbread. We both had the pulled pork and brisket. I had the loaded mashed potatoes and a side salad. The salad was super fresh. The brisket and pork were very tender and juicy. The portion size was large and I took most of my pork and mashed potatoes home. And the cornbread. Oh was it yummy. We are from Georgia where bbq is a big deal and this rivaled any bbq we have had in Georgia. Our server, Sarah, was amazing. She gave great recommendations and checked on us often. We will definitely be back. And for us it is a 40 minute drive. Well worth the drive.

I am shocked that a small Midwest town in Indiana near the Ohio border had such phenomenal BBQ!…read more I have made 2 visits and both of them have been exceptional! My first visit, I chose the Barnyard Burner Burger special. It came with pulled pork, spicy BBQ sauce, and cheese. But what was amazing about the burger was how soft, fresh, and smoky the hamburger meat was! I hadn't had a burger like this in years! I even liked it more than the BBQ, which if you follow my Yelp...that is very high praise! This week, I had the pulled pork and brisket with potato salad and beans. All phenomenal! The pulled pork is perfectly tender and smoky! I liked the pork more than the brisket but the brisket is 4 stars on its own. The potato salad has a lightly sweet mustard base to it with some eggs and relish mixed in. I enjoyed the beans more than the potato salad as the beans were in some kind of sweet and smoky conglomeration made in the back with brown sugar as a key ingredient. There are 4 sauces and I usually try to rank sauces, but I couldn't do it with these. They are all worthy on their own merit. The four sauces and a brief description are: Classic - mildly sweet tomato with a little pepper Sweet and Smoky - very sweet with a smoky taste and ketchup base Tangy - part vinegar, part tomato, all tangy Sue Tang - spicy mild to medium BBQ sauce, tomato base The one downside and it's common being a Southerner in the Mid-West is there is usually no sweet tea and if there is, it isn't sweet enough. They told me their tea maker was broke but there is a Kroger that has Milo's Sweet Tea that I have been allowed to carry in both times. Make a trip to Bluffton for Yergy's BBQ or Burgers. They are only open Thursday-Sunday.

Best you will find in Northeast IN. Great owner that cares…read moreabout the customers and the community.

Love discovering fast local lunch options along a road trip, and this was just that! Pulled meats…read moreand brisket with sides are ready just as quickly as any fast food place you can find, but with cozy log cabin vibes and the smell of bbq smoke infusing your hair and clothes as you dine. We ordered: Pulled Pork Piglet Sandwich w/ Green Beans, Cole Slaw, & Sweet Tea $10.75 ($11.61 w/ 8% tax, $13.22 w/ 15% tip) *Lighter and more mild flavors in all of these Beef Brisket Piglet Sandwich w/ Corn Casserole, Mashed Potatoes w/ Beef Gravy, & Lemonade (same prices as above) *All of these were favorites and the most flavorful of the day The food was ready in under 6min after ordering and we were in and out in under 30min while sitting down for lunch and taking our time to eat around noon on a Friday. If you're unsure of the spicy, they have spicy sauce on the table to try, but I'll say it was a mild spice (Indiana doesn't do lots of spicy things) so the heat doesn't rise above red pepper flake spice. You could add more heat with Tabasco to get it to a spice that makes the tongue actually feel hot. The ladies running the kitchen and clean up were fun and delightful and made us feel like we were home in someone's house being taken care of. Not sure when I'll ever be back in this area, but worth a stop and skipping all the other fast food nearby to try this local spot!!

Meat loaf was cold, eaten there a few times . Food is always being good . Till now I doubt I'll be…read moreback.

ALL the food is AMAZING! I wish they had a buffet because it's so hard to decide what to get, like…read moreI said it's all amazing! Their service is OUTSTANDING! Never seen a friendlier bunch! If you don't have room for dessert, take some home! You will be happy you did!

Met friends there on an early Friday evening. Starting to get busy, but service was good. Looked…read morefor a menu before we went, but could only find the one they give you, but bbq is not on it. They should post on their FB page or something. Split the full rack of ribs with hubby. Ribs were good. Came with 2 sides (board did not indicate this). The fried potatoes as a side were ok, but received very small portion. Had cottage cheese as second side. Nice serving of that. Worst part of meal was the margarita. 4 of us at the table had margaritas (special for the night). No matter the flavor (we had 3 of them), they were not good: tooooo sweet and no tequila. Also, they only take cash. Again, something that should be obviously stated on their FB page since they don't have a website. Most of us liked our food, but skip the margaritas and bring cash. Not sure we'll travel 45+ minutes to return.

Amazing!!! Staff was attentive and pleasant!! When we sat down we were immediately greeted with…read morewarm jalapeño biscuits with apple butter. Started with the delicious pulled pork nachos!!! You could taste the smoke on the meat and it was delicious. Only suggestion is add tomatoes. Next the 2 meat with 2 sides. The brisket was phenomenal, the seasoned fries were on point especially dipped in ranch, the Mac & cheese was piping hot and all the food was amazing!!! Full bar, plenty of seating definitely worth the drive!!

One of my fave rib joints in Central Indiana! As someone who has nearly perfected smoked ribs…read moremyself, I struggle with ribs at unknown places. Backroads ribs totally pass my 2 tests: - No need for extra or excessive sauce - great as presented - Falls off the bone!!! If I can eat ribs w/o my fingers and only a fork/knife they pass with flying colors. This 1/2 rack was PERFECT. Not a shred of protein left on the bones here and each was removed with fork & knife with ZERO effort. Great coleslaw and green beans as well. Indiana beers on-tap as well. Only thing I see missing are Indiana bourbons Don't pass this one by if you're anywhere near Lebanon!

I was really excited to try this place, but I was really disappointed because although the ribs…read morewere not too bad they lacked any type of flavor. The sides also lacked flavor and were a bit small. I will say the potato salad was really good though.

Several times I went there to find a note on the door they were closed. No posting online of such…read moreinfo. Then I show up and finally someone is there. I try to order a pound of pulled pork and a side of Mac to be told they need 24 hours notice for any by the pound. What bbq place can't handle a pound of pulled pork from a walk in. This was my first set of experiences with the establishment and I had such high hopes and had been wanting to try it for quite some time. With how poorly ran the business is I will not be back nor recommend it to anyone.

This is the best barbecue in Central Indiana. The ribs, brisket, and pulled pork are outstanding…read more Make sure you try the habanero cole slaw. For lunch, I often get the teriyaki bowl.

My husband and I have repeatedly been told how good the food is at Big Hoffas, so it's been on our…read morelist to visit for a loooong time. That is why it pains me to be giving this 3-star review. It's not that anything was bad, but after all the hype, we just weren't impressed. Let me start off by saying that the space is very cool. I loved the dark, swamp-themed mural painted on the wall, the banging playlist and the inclusion of a bar in the back as well as the ice cream counter. The staff were jovial, accommodating and extremely pleasant to interact with. My husband and I both ordered 1/2 slab rib combos. My 1/2 was much larger/meatier than his, so we swapped. The combo comes with two sides. We both ordered the baked beans, he had the coleslaw, and I had the macaroni and cheese. Categorically, everything was ok...good even, but not great or amazing, which were the words that we'd heard from others. Perhaps we didn't order the right items. The ribs were beautiful with the perfect smoke ring. They were seasoned well, but they were not as tender as I would've liked. I like my ribs to be fall-off-the-bone tender, but I know that isn't necessarily the industry standard. The sauce options were mild and hot, but I could barely distinguish the difference between the two. Hot is not spicy. The macaroni and cheese could've used some salt and pepper, but the baked beans were spot-on. The beans were on the sweet side, which is just how I like them. The platter is also served with soft, buttery, rolls with garlic.