My wife and I decided to take a road trip to Beaumont to visit her sister, and while we were there,…read morewe decided to give Broussard's a try. We ordered the ribs, brisket, links, pork bone, baked potato, potato salad, beans, and Kool-Aid.
One of the first things we noticed was that we couldn't smell any wood burning. When you're going somewhere for BBQ, that smoky wood-fired aroma is one of the first things you expect. Unfortunately, there was no smell of smoke, and after tasting the food, it all started to make sense.
The food was extremely disappointing. Everything was covered in an excessive amount of BBQ sauce, to the point where it was difficult to taste the actual meat.
The ribs were tough. The brisket was also tough, had no smoke ring, and lacked that deep, smoky flavor you expect from properly smoked brisket. The pork bones tasted more like boiled meat than smoked BBQ. At that point, we started wondering if the sauce was being used to cover up the lack of smoke and flavor in the meat.
My sister-in-law said the best thing we had was the Kool-Aid--and honestly, she wasn't wrong.
I spent $128.88 on this meal, and I honestly feel like I spent $128.88 on trash. That's a lot of money to spend on food that was this disappointing. We drove to Beaumont expecting some good BBQ, but instead we got tough meat drowning in BBQ sauce with very little smoke flavor.
BBQ is supposed to be about the meat, the smoke, the seasoning, and the time it takes to cook it right. Unfortunately, none of that came through in this meal.
Needless to say, this was our first and last visit. For $128.88, I expected a meal worth talking about. Instead, the Kool-Aid was the highlight of the entire experience.
