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Panhandle BBQ

4.3 (24 reviews)
Closed • 10:30 am - 7:30 pm

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Nickie B.

Holy smokes can these folks smoke some meat! Some of the best smoked meat and sides I have had since BBQ world headquarters in Austin. Potato salad Mustard, base with eggs. Creamy mac & cheese with lots of cheddar coleslaw vinegar heavy on the pepper just perfect brown sugar sticky glaze on ribs nice smoke ring and moist brisket pulled pork on point.

Julie S.

What an absolute gem and an AMAZING experience! Walked in not knowing what to expect while doing what we do best, road tripping, and immediately greeted by a great team of women eager to help and answer any questions! Offered samples before placing our order, shared their very own favorites and told us we wouldn't be disappointed...they were 100% accurate on their assumptions!!! We tried the ribs, pulled pork, and chopped brisket and HEAVEN! Every bite was better than the last! The cream corn, I do not like cream corn, DELICIOUS!!! Not your average cream corn! The beans, Lordt help me, a perfect blend of spices in EVERY bite... The warm peach cobbler and the banana pudding were the perfect ending of our taste buds fantastic journey!!! We will be craving this flavor filled, best bbq sauce, bbq until we meet again in a few months! Did I mention the AMAZING staff We will be back again, and again, and again! Lovely meeting you Mr Pearce, your Lovely Wife, and amazing Staff!!! Julie, Nikki, & Jordan, the Cali girls

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TK S.

put my side of coleslaw on top of my sandwich and it was amazing. The brisket was well seasoned and super tender I loved it. I also tried the Mac and cheese and the macaroni salad that was amazing. The food was well priced and delicious!

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Matthew M.

Got here at 5:30pm only to find that the only meat they had was chopped and ribs. While we were ordering the gentlemen taking our order started taking the person behind us and we still needed one more entree for our son. Luckily another member saw us already frustrated and asked if this was all we ordered. This happened while the people behind us jumped In front of us and we had to wait longer. Then we got to the sides and they have none of the sides listed so we had to decide on the spot what to get. Then we get to the drinks and that was a further S**t show. This place is extremely unorganized. We got the burger for our son and it wasn't even cooked so we had to send it back to and cooked more. The best part was sitting down and starting to eat, only to realize that the food was ice cold. If I wanted cold food I would get a tv dinner. The prices are way too proud for the quality of the food or amount you get. Save your money and go to one of the veteran bbq places in Lubbock. This place needs an extreme amount of help and the old man running things needs to not yell at his employees when people are trying to eat. The ambience is ok but nothing to write home about. 1/10 won't come again.

Worst place ever hope it goes under.

I wouldn't give it stars, they have horse flies served with there food. And wanna give younger people smaller portions. While the old folks are getting there moneys worth. And the bbq isn't even that good for the price there trying to serve with.

More samples I love this place!
Eyemareader E.

I'm not sure how to start this one but here we go with a smh beginning of some of the best BBQ I've ever had period! Not just BBQ but the sides of which I had beans and Mac n cheese. I'm not even a mac n cheese guy but it was over the top with this crust like on a casserole, I was impressed. The beans holy cow! They were thick with juice and not runny with pieces of BBQ in them just like momma made with the ham remember that? Shoot I haven't said a thing about the sticky ribs that's my take on them and I'm saying they would take the prize at anyone's cook off! Tender but not falling off the bone and the sauce wasn't over powering or drippy which I don't like when it does that, something about getting it on me I guess and that being said the flavor was perfect! The chopped beef sandwich was epic as well with the perfect flavor. All in all I will be back! Here's the cool part today tomorrow and Thursday it's no charge they are calling it samples they do have a tip jar and obviously I left a nice one because that was the right thing to do in my opinion, the grand opening is Friday with a menu, I haven't seen the prices but with a brick n mortar, beef prices and labor it can't be free. I'll be back.

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The Service is amazing! Food is great! Price is great and it's local! So yummy! Definitely get the corn!

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Everything was ice cold. Tasted ok. Would have been great if hot. Had ribs and smoked sausage.

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3 years ago

Very good bbq. The ribs and sliced brisket are both great. The beans with pork has more meat than beans

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2 years ago

Great food the specials are amazing and well the strawberry cobbler is well it's worth fighting over. Keep up the great work

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2 years ago

I've eaten at most all BBQ places in the Lubbock area and Panhandle BBQ is currently at the top of my list. Cost is comparable as well

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3 years ago

The food was good but it was a little expensive. I especially enjoyed the pull pork and potato salad. I will eat there again.

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Nice, un-pierced folks running this joint and it was pleasant to sit under a canopy with the…read morebreezes a-blowin' on a hot day. Had ribs, sausage, tater salad and fried cabbage. Ribs were incredible. Very peppery and basted with a vinegar-based mop sauce. Quite different from The Shack's (Lubbock), which lean more sweet. Sausage was outstanding. Quite possibly the best I've had anywhere. I assume they have it prepared to a proprietary recipe given all the sausage production in and around Slaton. The sides were good, but not as good as the meat. Mustard-based tater salad was of the mashed rather than chunky variety. Good mustard flavor, but I prefer chunky tater salad. Never had fried cabbage before, but this was very good with lots of bacon in it. I'd definitely order it again. Pleasant although primitive atmosphere at this joint. It's located in an ancient gas station/auto repair building and they haven't done anything to fix it up. But it absolutely fits with the food they serve. BBQ ain't alta cucina and in some ways the more rude the setting, the more appropriate it is. At any rate, they played good music--CCR, Fleetwood Mac, America, Dion and the Belmonts, etc. Bottom line, as long as joints as good as Pitforks and Smokerings and The Shack are open in the Lubbock area, I don't see any reason to be bothering with the lines and lack of seating at Evie Mae's. These are the local joints that are getting my cue money for the foreseeable future.

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One of the joys of traveling around Texas is finding places like this. We'd spent the previous…read morenight in Lubbock and our bartender at the restaurant told us about TC's Ponderosa. He'd grown up in the Dickens area so it was a local favorite of his. We veered a little out of our way to stop here for lunch and were so happy we did. As others have mentioned--you'd drive right past it if you didn't look closely. Looks like an almost-abandoned gas station. Inside, it was packed with people, including a local rancher buying lunch for the cowhands working her ranch. That's a big endorsement in my book. As mentioned in a couple of reviews, this isn't the place to be in a hurry. Orders were written down by hand and the money was collected by a sweet, friendly woman who grew up when the world wasn't so uptight and fast. Bless her heart for sticking to her pace. You can get stressed out it or you can settle in and enjoy the moment. We enjoyed every bit of it. The food was the final payoff. Damn good BBQ. Everything we had was good. Pretty good chance I'll be on the motorcycle again in west Texas and an even better chance the day will be planned to be in Dickens when I'm hungry!

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