As a Mainer who spent years in Texas, I've eaten enough BBQ to be a little skeptical whenever someone claims to have "real Texas BBQ." This place didn't just meet the standard, it raised it. We ordered the pulled pork, sausage, chili, and corn on the cob, and every bite was phenomenal. When I complimented the owners, they kindly brought over a rib for me to try. Up until that moment, I would've bet good money that I didn't like ribs. Turns out I just hadn't met the right rib. The food was incredible, but the owners were even better. Genuine, welcoming, salt-of-the-earth people who make you feel less like a customer and more like a guest at their table. Finding BBQ this good in Maine feels like spotting a longhorn in a moose yard. If you're anywhere near the Moosehead Lake region, make the trip. Just be warned: this place may ruin other BBQ for you! read more

Wow, stopped in this afternoon and what a great place. The owners were really friendly and helpful. The food was amazing! I could eat that cornbread with honey all day long and not get tired of it. I had a grilled chicken sandwich and it was hands down the best I've ever had. Can't wait to go back for dinner some time when I am hungrier and can have a full meal. read more

We were in the area and decided to stop in for a bite. We are really happy we did. The place is spotless, the owners Kim and Mike were friendly. It's an order at the counter place. My husband and I each ordered sausage sub. It was outstanding. Just enough spice, hot off the grill with onions and peppers on a sub roll. If I were to make one recommendation it would be to increase the size of the sub roll. So delicious though! On our way out we grabbed two homemade molasses cookies for the road. They were AMAZING. I haven't had a homemade molasses cookie in 40 years but I'll tell you, this was the best I've ever had. I get that the hours are hit or miss. It's a mom and pop shop. If you're in the area and they are open stop in. You won't regret it. We will definitely stop in again. read more

Some of the best BBQ in Maine! Little spot in Monson which is hit or miss when they are open. Friendliest husband and wife team run it and cook everything themselves. The chili is my husband's favorite chock full of meat with the perfect heat, and the pulled pork and coleslaw are mine. My son swears by the frito pie. The cornbread is a huge wedge, buttered and grilled.definitely shareable, but why would you want to?? Also I am a sucker for a great molasses cookie and these are phenomenal. You order at window and pay at bar. Usually some friendly locals in there having a drink. There is some seating inside. They were only taking cash and there is an atm inside. There are lots of local food items and spices to purchase and a freezer of their menu items to purchase for home. We stop whenever we're going through and they're open. Highly recommend! read more

I really enjoyed this little bbq spot in Maine! The hours are a bit all over the place--they're mainly open on weekends but sometimes they're on vacation, etc. Kim is super friendly and welcoming though! The ribs are very tender, and I was told they were smoked for four hours. They had a delicious maple glaze and bbq sauce on the side and it was $18 for half rack (they go by weight, so I think it was $22/lb). Truly fall-off-the-bone ribs. I also got a HUGE wedge of cornbread for $4 that was brushed with butter and grilled on two sides. There's sugar on top, which gives it a bit of a crunch. It's a coarse and crumbly cornbread (not like a cake) but sweet and tasty. I wish I'd had the chance to try more things, but I tried going the last Sunday before Thanksgiving and unfortunately, they were closed already. Oh well! There are some tables both inside and outside the house/store and there's a bit of a shop inside as well with local maple syrup and jams and other items. They also sell homemade desserts such as pear cake and apple pie and various cookies. If you're around Monson and they've got their OPEN flag outside, you should check it out! read more

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What atreat Ribs were delicious . All sides and sweets are made in house. They have maple items, coffee and spices

I can see why people like to come here. The place is spotless, the food is delicious, and the staff is awesome. Find your way there and eat up read more

An all time favorite of mine is BBQ. I have traveled our country and always search out the local BBQ. To find an exceptional Mom & Pop BBQ restaurant nestled in the mountains of Maine was unbelievable. Have eaten there four or five times now, and each time it was absolutely fantastic. Plenty of both seating and parking. They have a full bar and numerous types of beer. Most definitely a worthwhile dining experience. read more

What a great find! We loved the atmosphere and the humor (if you want a waitress, bring one!) The staff were very friendly and the food was great! My husband had a burger on a home made roll and he said it was delicious. We shared mac and cheese, I had never had it made with sage before. It was very good and creamy. I also had a cup of pulled pork - fantastic! We will be planning trips north to include a stop here! read more

Spring Creek Bar-B Q - Cheese Burger, Mac and Cheese, and cup of Pulled Pork - Barbeque Near Me - Monson, Maine

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So many would stop at Spring Creek for the BBQ which is great but frankly I have been ordering the cheeseburger for the last 20+ years. The bread pudding is not to be missed....if you are too full take one on the road to enjoy later on. Side dishes are always good! Kim is a dynamo in the kitchen, not sure how she manages to keep up with all the orders when they are busy. read more

The absolute best bbq place I've ever been to! Amazing food! Great prices, and the owners are amazing people!

The smell alone is reason enough to eat her! Intoxicating smokiness fills the air of the parking lot. They have cute picnic benches and chairs with tree stumps as tables set up outside. We had pulled pork in a cup and it comes with sweet Visalia onions and pickles on top-delish. Sloppy joe-very good. Thai salad and vegetable pasta salad packed with flavor. My husband would have preferred that the Baked beans have more flavor or sweetness but my daughter and i enjoyed it the way it was. Oh and save room for the bourbon bread pudding-yum! read more

Went there tonight. Great place !! Eclectic, good food, great atmosphere, great tunes on PA (Dead, Riders, others), great owners !! Beautiful table cut from a single tree is cool because you meet new people. Don't leave without getting the Bourbon Bread Pudding. Definitely coming back and recommend that you stop in if you are in that neck of the woods !! read more

Can't review this place. Goggle said it was open. Not at the location it has listed. Moved a few doors down. Big sign outside had a take out number on it. We called it from outside the restaurant. Their recording said "our hours are hit or miss.. look for the smoke or look for the lights.. " That was it. We traveled quite a distance to try this place. Their hours need to be updated. Very disappointing. read more

This place has such weird hours. They have only been open a few times when we are in the area ( and we are usually in the area around noon on weekends). Their web site is no help because they don't post their hours. read more

This place is truly amazing! Mike and Kim are wonderful host and they can make amazing food to satisfy any appetite. I had Prime Rib on the Saturday night I was there along fiddlehead salad and amazing piece of Pie at there new location- right next door to the old one. If I could give this more then 5 stars- I would!! read more

Spring Creek Bar-B Q - bar counter and stools - Barbeque Near Me - Monson, Maine

I wanted to like this place, because Monson is a cool Appalachian Trail town, but there were several major factors that let me down. - the baby back ribs were fatty and the sauce was extremely watery/liquidity. Probably the least tasty back backs I've ever had - the owner, Mike, was in a terrible mood and was legitimately rude to customers. Absolutely nobody could get him to smile, joke around, or even be friendly. - the corn tasted far out of season. - no beer on draft. All bottles. On a plus note, prob aly the best cornbread I've ever had. read more

I ate here yesterday and can honestly say this place is on my top list of BBQ from all I have ever tasted. They know how to smoke meats and their sides are phenomenal! Go for the potato salad. Beer selection is banging and the service is top notch. Soooo delicious. It's a destination. It's a drive but head there on a sunny Saturday and enjoy. read more

Mike and Kim Witham run the best barbeque joint this side of Dallas in a sleepy town of 600 in northern Maine called Monson that's one town before you reach gorgeous Moosehead Lake, which holds 25% of the fresh water in the entire state. Kim and Mike are both Mainers, but have traveled the country looking for great barbeque and even better camping. Mike smokes a mean pit. I've heard women propose to him after tasting his pork chops. Kim is a great cook on everything from cole slaw to deviled eggs. They also sell art, host live music and carry delicious Louisiana hot sauces like Slap Yo Mama. Stopping at Spring Creek has become a ritual for my whole extended family over the past seven years. No matter where I've traveled, I've never tasted better barbequed pork, ribs, beef, chicken, or brisket. They're both great fun to hang out with, and Mike is a natural-born storyteller. read more

This place has a lot of character, and pretty good Texas Style Bar-B-Q. We're more used to eastern style BBQ (slathered with spicy/sweet/sticky sauce), so we were a bit surprised by the bold flavor and smokiness of this BBQ. Don't be off-put by the outward appearance (it does look a little out of place driving down the road in rural Maine- a little more like an old country house than a restaurant)- it is a good dinner, worth the stop. You order first, eat, and then pay at the counter when you're done. They also have large desserts that are cheap! So save some room! read more

Spring Creek Bar-B Q - the front of the building - Barbeque Near Me - Monson, Maine

Stopped in to this little place on the way back from hiking Katahdin this past weekend. I've driven by many many times before and always say, I have to stop in there! I'm so glad that I did this time! The atmosphere is a great with the owners taking your orders and freshly preparing everything. I ordered the pork sandwich with a side of coleslaw and beans. I love the little bit of spice in the sauce...makes the pork almost perfect. I can't wait to stop back in on my next trip to the north country. read more

We stopped in over the summer. People eating outside. People carrying takeout to their cars. We walked in and the guy behind the bar started yelling at my husband that they were closed. It was bizarre and uncomfortably rude. My husband tried to be polite and ask when they would be open, and the guy (owner, I would guess) asked if we were too stupid to realize he was closed and he didn't know when they'd open. read more

I really, really, really wanted to like this place better than I did, probably because the people there are wonderfully friendly and helpful - and I love the slogan at the bottom of the ordering instructions: "If you want a waitress - bring one!" That should be printed on their t-shirts. The bartender is a hoot, and while we waited - for longer than we expected to, frankly - for our pulled pork in a cup, sausage/peppers/onions sub, baked beans, and cornbread - we met the owner, too, who was a sweetheart. Oh - before I forget this - their location has changed. They are no longer AT the house/building that they were at - that STILL says "Spring Creek Bar B Q" on it. There's a sign on the steps of that place redirecting patrons to a red house two doors down. Which, by the way, does NOT have a sign. They apparently spent the money they might have spent on a sign on the interior, which is just gorgeous wood - big slabs of whole trees for the few tables they have - and pretty much everything else made of gleaming wood. It's a little Cracker Barrelish, too, with tchotchkes and shirts and spices and pot holders, but - as we were doing take out - there were also nice rocking chairs in which to wait for our order. And they do have a place to eat outside, if that's your preference. I don't much go for eating al fresco. Too much heat/too many bugs, etc. So, we ate this hours later at home. Perhaps that was part of the problem, but . . . no. I have to say that the pulled pork itself was excellent - two good sized, generous orders (although the pickles on the top kinda threw me - I'm not a pickle-loving person), and not ONE bit of fat or gristle in either portion. Bravo for that! However, what sauce there was was liquidy, and there wasn't much flavor overall, unfortunately, however lean and tender the meat was. To me, a barbecue place shouldn't inspire you to want to reach for the bottle of Sweet Baby Rays in the back of your fridge. The cornbread was also generously portioned - especially if one person was going to eat it - and it was sweet, which is my preference. I do NOT like dry, tasteless cornbread, or that which is heinously adulterated with jalepenos. Frankly, although I imagine it's blasphemy to say so, I like Boston Chicken's cornbread - almost a cornCAKE instead. However, although I want it sweet and cake-ISH, it IS cornbread, and this version contained more than a hint of vanilla, which belongs in a yellow cake for someone's birthday, but NOT in cornbread. My sister doesn't like vanilla at all, and the taste was strong enough to put her off eating the rest of the slab of it that we'd split. The beans were quit dark, and I had flashbacks to my Mother's excellent molassessy version of baked beans, but these were not those. They were too sweet. There should be some vinegar in the mix to cut that down some. And they lacked any other flavor, too, despite their color. As this place is WAY out of our way, I don't think we'll be back, unfortunately, because, as I said at the beginning, I really, really, really wanted to like this place, and if I like somewhere, I have been known to go well out of my way to eat there. Unfortunately, this won't be one of those places. read more

We'd read about this place and drove up to check it out. The barbeque pork and beef were excellent as were the sides. It was worth the trip, absolutely. Unable to decide between the pork and beef BBQ, Norm took Kim's advice and got a combination bucket. Next time he'll probably just go with the pork. I don't eat meat, but the deviled eggs were good and the mac and cheese was homey and tasty. My other option would have been grilled cheese. read more

Spring Creek Bar-B Q - Barbeque Near Me - Monson, Maine

DO NOT TRUST THE LISTED ADDRESS! I don't know what it is, but this is the second address in Maine that was soooo completely wrong. Anyways, they close at 8, decided at 7:30 to try them out. Didn't realize that they were walking distance to where I was staying, because Yelp tells us that it was like 5 miles north. So we drove. Nothing..just trees. Its now 7:45. Nothing but trees on the way back. Finally we found the old building that this use to be in, and it said something about "moved 2 houses north" which means, literally, next door. Luckily they were still open, but by this time they were out of a lof meat, except for the chicken thigh special 3/5$ I got that and a couple sides and my friend got a burger and something else. Our total as $18. We had a LOT of food and it was $18. The mac and cheese was the best, the baked beans were yum and the chicken was nicely smoked. The atmosphere was a very cozy, cabin feel. You order at the bar, which can be slow, and then pick it up at another window when they call you. Return all of your trash and plates to the same area. Good concept! read more

YOU HAVE TO STOP! or your missing out. We have been going for 11 years. This place is AMAZING! The BBQ is the best we ever had. Mike is definitely a "MASTER PIT BOSS" having traveled all over the country to other BBQ's and tweaked his creations over the years, I would say it's dead on! The pork ribs are to die for and my hubby's favorite,,,,the beef brisket. OK, enough about Mike...LOL. Kim's homemade sides, salads and desserts are INCREDIBLE! Fresh,Fresh,Fresh and SO delicious. Save room for her desserts, you won't be disappointed. Cookies, Pies, Brownies or her yummy Bourbon Bread Pudding. The Atmosphere,,,,Also an amazing experience. Mike and Kim are the best hosts you will ever meet. The Spring Creek BBQ is like going home for a meal! read more

Very fun atmosphere. Loved the homemade cornbread, lightly grilled. Had the house salad, which was chock-full of fresh diverse veggies and lettuces. Served in hand made local wood bowl. Fiddlehead salad was amazing. Tastes gourmet to me and my friend loved it too. The BBQ beef sandwich had a great sauce on it. Met the owners ( in the open kitchen area) they were very friendly and Rachel is cool too. read more

Yummy southern goodness in the middle of Maine. I had the bbq pork in a cup, mac n cheese and hunk of cornbread. The pork cup was a bit greasy, but very tasty. The Mac n cheese had some herbs in it and was very good. The cornbread - wow - it's seared with maple syrup or something - making it to die for. Overall good experience. Expect to wait in line to order and get your food - but worth it. read more

Spring Creek Bar-B Q - Barbeque Near Me - Monson, Maine

The food is wonderful and the woman who manages the restaurant has a super duper good personality, friendly, fun and inviting. BUT, I would NOT recommend that you plan to visit this place. . . it is exactly as they say, "hit or miss" and I can say that 90% of the time, even during peak hours, it is a big MISS. Hope someday they are able to open again, because it sure was good while it was open. read more

Outstanding!! This place is fun, delicious and worthy. Loved every minute and every bite. read more

Spring Creek Bar-B Q - Barbeque Near Me - Monson, Maine

This place is melt-in-your-mouth, slap-your-mamma, delicious BBQ! The atmosphere is warm and friendly and oh so inviting! My family stops into Spring Creek every time we go to Maine, it's worth the drive! There isn't a thing on the menu that isn't done right! The ribeye is the best I've ever had! And don't forget to save room for the homemade pie!!! read more

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Today we drove 3 hours to try this bbq place. After eating here I would have driven all day. The ribs were the best I have ever had, including my own. The corn bread was delicious, especially with maple syrup!! Burgers were great, although I would never have anything but the ribs from now on. The atmosphere is wonderful inside. Lots of stuff to look at. Only a couple of small issues for me, if you are going to have plastic utensils then have good ones, the forks are awfully flimsy. Second, the cole slaw was nothing special and at $5 I expected better quality. Other than that, bring your own fork and skip the sides and just go for a plate of ribs and cornbread!! read more

This business was featured on the Food Network and ran across it while traveling Maine towards Moose Head Lake. It is the best Bar B Q we have ever had plus a great time exchanging stories. The side dishes were just as good too plus reasonable prices. We only wish we had bought some to go. We did manage a T Shirt to remind us of this great stop and would certainly stop again. Bar B Q doesn't get any better then here. Loved it! read more

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It's been almost a year since this place's most recent review, and it is time to confirm that they definitely deserve five stars. It may seem hard to maintain outstanding quality in a remote town in Maine but I spent many weeks with Texas BBQ the last two years, and this place would be among the best that I have experienced. Excellent, trusting service and the food as I've already implied could compete pretty much anywhere. This is a very important spot on the 2000+ mile Appalachian Trail, as Monson has been named as Maine's first Appalachian Trail community and is the last supply point for hikers attacking the 100 Mile Wilderness, the most isolated part of the trail. The owners welcome hikers, even if they have not been off the trail for days, and have good spaces for hikers, families, and members of the church across the street to eat in peaceful coexistence on a Sunday [[a special day for the restaurant, open at 8AM instead of their usual 10AM but be sure to call ahead about their hours]]. Aside from a pub open at noon and a typical mediocre gas station convenience store, this is the only place nearby to get a meal or to resupply. [[You can find an alternative within a few hundred feet, see shawslodging.com, but the notable amenities at Shaw's seem a little more intended for overnight guests, and even Shaw's recommend Spring Creek for meals that they don't serve.]] Hikers are fortunate that this place continues to excel at reasonable prices. read more

Everything we've ever eaten here has been top notch, delicious food. Today we stopped in and I was in the awkward position of explaining a bunch of food restrictions. The owner/chef made me the most delicious salad, topped with a homemade sausage that was amazing. The presentation and flavors were over the top, and I know she took extra special care to make sure my restricted food didn't feel like it. Very friendly owners and staff, arts and crafts-y decor, and great food. The only improvement they could make is more days open :) We will be back again and again! read more

Worth the ride!!!! Not really near much of anything, my sister and brother in-law have a camp in Stetson, they took my wife and I there a couple of years ago. Even though I have not been there recently, the caliber of the food was such that, you would not have to worry about it changing!!! Their hours are Thursday-Sunday 10-8 and maybe Mon Tues or Wednesday (if the porch light is on!!!) Call ahead if you can, because they sell out of stuff on the regular, nothing day old in this place!!!!! read more

Pork ribs, beef ribs, smoked chicken salad sandwich, cole slaw, orange and cream sodas outta the can... So freakin' good! We had hiked and swam Gulf Hagus and had worked up a mean appetite. The meat fell off the bone and melted in your mouth. The food was so good we couldn't stop and ordered another side of baked beans and then bourbon bread pudding to go. Personable, friendly owners/staff. Kim insisted that we come back tomorrow (July 16) for the Swap Meat. We can't make it back this year, but it's already on the calendar for next. See you next year. So freakin' good! read more

Excellent, just plain excellent! This little place served up the best barbecue this side of the Texas border. Bravo! Your tummy will thank you for making a special trip to Spring Creek Bar-B Q. I had the loaded Nachos with barbecue and my husband had the ribs. It was just "FINE" as they say down south. By fine we mean AWESOME! read more

Food was very delicious. I had a BBQ Pork sandwich and a BBQ beef sandwich (brisket). Both were delicious and had a great, original BBQ sauce. Not inexpensive but definitely more than worth the price. read more

Surprised to find this place passing through Maine but it was some of the best barbecue I've had in a long time.