I don't know how I've never written a review about Staxx but it certainly deserves one. I going to start doing my reviews in this order: The Appeal The Bad (?) The Good The Appeal: Located near downtown Frankfort is a Mom & Pop BBQ restaurant that has a menu with a little bit of something for everyone. With the smoker on site and Cat fish Fridays, everyone in your party can find something they really enjoy. The Bad (?): I couldn't really find anything bad about this place and I've been many, many times. I do know BBQ is a lot like Bourbon. Everyone does it a little different. But with the array of meat cuts and flavors, it's a solid restaurant to check out. Overall I love stacks. The staff is always nice and helpful. You can ask questions about the food and they are always read to help you find what you're looking for. It's a very unique little gem in our capital city, you have to try it out! read more

We have not eaten here in long time. My wife went with pulled chicken with a side of mac n cheese. While I chose the 3 meat combo smoked sausage, brisket, and pulled pork. It also comes with two side so I went with onion rings, and green beans. This is not a Military friendly restaurant. read more

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Fast and inexpensive BBQ for the area. I ordered the dinner for 2: Brisket and pulled pork, green beans, cornbread muffins and Mac and cheese The meat was pretty good, as was the green beans. The Mac and cheese was just okay. Way better when smothered in BBQ sauce. read more

Staxx BBQ - Barbeque Near Me - Frankfort, Kentucky

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Ate here for the first time yesterday with a group of ten. My smoked turkey sandwich was fabulous. As good as I have ever had anywhere. I also loved the potato salad. Everyone else lived their food. Highly recommend. read more

Staxx is a great, local, small town bbq place. It has all the different options you expect with bbq and it's always hot and fresh. I usually do the pulled pork but I've tried their other offerings and haven't found anything to dislike yet. My only knock on them is I wish they had better buns. All in all, the place has good food, service, and they are plenty fast enough to make it in and out for lunch. read more

Awesome place to eat! A ton of choices of meats, sides and sauces! I love the sweet potato fries and cinnamon butter sauce! Brisket and pork with sweet bbq sauce is excellent! read more

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Yesterday was the first time I've eaten here. The staff was very friendly and polite and the service was fast. The food was better than I initially expected, and the portions were very large. You definitely get more than your moneys worth here. I definitely liked how the interior was set up as it made me feel like I was at an old nostalgic Pizza Hut. Don't hesitate to stop in and grab a bite, you won't be disappointe. read more

Staxx BBQ - Barbeque Near Me - Frankfort, Kentucky

Absolutely the best. Made my Wife's Retirement party a huge success. A great job by Staxx Team was above and beyond, the Food was well received and people have reached out wanting to know where we got it from. Was Seamless and so accommodating. Thank You Dan And Joe Liebman Sincerely Daniel Halbert and Jennifer Grisham read more

The ribs were disappointing. The dry rub did not have a good flavor, they were not tender and juicy like one would expect of a specialty bbq restaurant. The so called baked beans were not flavorful, and they did not appear to be baked at all, they looked and tasted like beans right out of the can. read more

Barbecue was dry. Really dry, I'm talking Joan Rivers' vagina dry! Sides were decent. For the price it should just be better.

Pretty good food you get plenty to eat. Not as good as what you would get it Texas or Kansas but it's good service is fast at the drive through I have not been inside so I can't and would talk about that. read more

While on a bourbon trail tour with Central Kentucky Tours, our driver, Daryl, stopped at Staxx for us to eat lunch in between distilleries. Tina waited on our party of 6 and delivered SO MUCH FOOD on a tray that we stared in amazement. We got brisket combos, sweet potato fries with cinnamon butter, pulled pork sandwich combos, meat platters with brisket and sausage, baked beans, corn bread, mac n cheese, cole slaw, Texas Toast, ribs and wings and sodas. SO MUCH FOOD! It all was delicious. Daryl warned that the servings were gigantic, and he suggested getting the slider size, but we went all out and ordered the "American" size. Our tab ran about $100 for 6 full size platter combos and drinks. We are from Oklahoma and Texas and are BBQ snobs. Staxx does BBQ right. Huge portions, tender and juicy meats, and excellent service. read more

Staxx BBQ - Pulled pork sandwich combo with sweet potato fries - Barbeque Near Me - Frankfort, Kentucky

Staxx is definitely worth a stop. We came in after some golf and waterpark fun and we're ready to eat. The brisket is FANTASTIC. Tender, juicy, flavorful but not "punch you in the facex with smoke. I like nice clean smoked flavors, and this had it. The ribs were a little dry for my preference, but a little sauce and they were good to go. The pulled chicken, also Fantastic. I love that the sauces are all out on the table. I like trying different sauces with each meat. So I don't like when places make you pick a sauce up front Staff and service were also great. Food came out quick, everything was clean and tidy. Dang good BBQ. read more

I was told that it is probably the best barbecue you will find in Kentucky and all I can say about that is poor Kentucky! I found the meat to be unflavorful and I knew that by the amount of sauces that they put in the bag. I got the pork slider and they gave me more sauces than they gave me slider. The sweet potato fries were good but they are barbecue place. read more

Have always enjoyed drive through carryout. I love most of their sides! Meat and sauces always tasty and fresh! Good value.

Staff is so friendly! Portions are abundant! Food is delicious! We will be returning customers! read more

If you have kept up with my reviews, you will know that I love this place... Food is always delicious and service is very down home, but I must say that the price of six chicken tenders is a bit out of range for what you would expect...6 tenders and one side over $18... as many times as I've eaten here, I may have to reconsider, moving forward how I want to spend my money... thank you for the years of service, but I think next Friday I'm going to go for a steak and baked potato... read more

Staxx BBQ - Too pricey for what I got... - Barbeque Near Me - Frankfort, Kentucky

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Had Staxx for the first time and it was pretty good. The catfish filets are huge! Everywhere else I go I would eat 3-4 pieces and sides but here I ate 1.5 pieces and had plenty. The wings also were large, really smoky with good dipping sauces. All of it is also reasonably priced for what you get. read more

Staxx BBQ - Smoked Chicken wings - Barbeque Near Me - Frankfort, Kentucky

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This was recommended by an employee at Buffalo trace. Ribs okay. Potato salad good. Onion rings not so good and the cornbread flavorless. read more

Staxx BBQ - a pig in a hawaiian shirt - Barbeque Near Me - Frankfort, Kentucky

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Stay away not a good example of bbq, staff is very friendly . Tried 3 meat sampler and few other items nothing was good . Major disappointment .....I wouldn't recommend this place . read more

Service was great, very friendly, nice atmosphere. The brisket, sadly had no flavor. Was dry, could taste no smokiness, unsure if it was actually smoked. No obvious smoke ring. Pulled pork was marginally better. Baked beans were flavorful as was the corn bread. read more

Was not impressed. I hate doing reviews like this but I do feel the need to share. My son and I planned the day around our Buffalo Trace tour and the fella who was out guide recommended Staxx BBQ as when it's not COVID-19 restricted, they are actually onsite running a cute little store. I wish we ad ignored him as my lunch was kind of awful. My son ate it all but he mentioned that he hadn't eaten in 24hrs for various reasons so I'm thinking he would have eaten a wooden stave at this point. The brisket was super dry and flavorless. The bbq sauces were pretty good. The Mac and cheese was cold and harsh to chew on. I looked for a date on it because i cannot imagine how long it would take to become chewy? The fountain drinks were perfect though so that's the silver lining for me. read more

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Fantastic BBQ! Friendly staff! Fast service. Delicious food. Large portions! We will definitely be back when traveling through Frankfort. read more

There is nothing that would bring me back here. The pulled pork, smoked turkey and ribs aren't even average. Hardly any smoke flavor. The mac-n-cheese is bland. Tastes like plain pasta. The beans are so-so. The cornbread is absolutely flavorless. The service was okay. Not very friendly but at least competent. read more

I really teeter on giving this a 4 or 5 star. If i had to base it on the chicken wings, it would be a 5 star, but on the whole thing, it get's a 4. First, let me start out with saying that I almost always get the pulled pork sandwich combo until the cashier said the wings were good. They sounded good and the pulled pork can be a little dry some days. So I got the wings. OMG! These are seriously the best wings I have ever had. They come with a dry rub and no sauce on them. (The sauce is on the table). These are so good, I don't use the sauce. After ordering a 6 wing combo and finishing that off, I went back up and ordered another 6 wings. If you get the pork, you'll need the sauce. I like the carolina sauce the best. But if you get the wings, you won't need anything. GET THE WINGS! read more

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Food tastes like it was made for jail. No taste, no seasoning, gray potato salad, fry pull chicken. Pass

We ordered takeout, the family meal for two with pulled pork, cole slaw, baked beans and Texas toast. After waiting for the car in front of me, I was pleasantly surprised to see my order was ready when I got to the window! The portions of pulled pork, baked beans and cole slaw were generous enough to provide us with lunch the next day. We will definitely return! read more

Come here if you like bland flavorless food! Dry corn bred, Mac n cheese that taste like it came out of a frozen hungry man box, and bbq with 0 seasoning or flavor read more

My husband and I were on an adventurous ride from Cincinnati to Nashville, and happened upon Staxx BBQ, and decided to try them. I was hoping for something awesome, instead just got kind of blah. We ordered the ribs, brisket, green beans, potato salad, macaroni and cheese, and cole slaw. My husband said the ribs were actually pretty good! They were moist and tender. But, the hot, spicy, and sweet sauces they offered were less than exciting. The hot and spicy sauces tasted too much like Frank's Red Hot sauce. The brisket was super dry, and tough. We honestly couldn't eat it. Now to the sides. The green beans were quite bland. We had to add salt and pepper to give them flavor. Once that was added, they were really good! But, there was WAY more bacon and onions than green beans. The macaroni and cheese was not good. It was quite dry, and tasted like, well, dry noodles. I was expecting something rich and creamy. It was not. The potato salad was pretty decent. I've never needed to add salt to potato salad but, it needed it to give it a bit of umph. The cole slaw was good. I would have liked it to have more dressing, to make it a tad more flavorful but, it wasn't awful. The cornbread was so dry, we didn't eat it. There was absolutely no moisture to it. Overall, not a great food experience. read more

Staxx BBQ - Ribs, brisket, green beans, macaroni and cheese, potato salad, and cole slaw, along with a corn muffin. - Barbeque Near Me - Frankfort, Kentucky

Came in hoping to love this place, first time trying it. Service was great, friendly folks, fast. Price is ok, especially for the serving size. Mac and cheese was good. Had a tiny kick to it with the pepper. Brisket, this is where I'm struggling. Doesn't seem overly flavorful, has a light smoke flavor. Bit dry though. Not bad, but would've preferred a juicier cut. Sauces were fine, mixed some sweet and spicy. I'd come back, but probably try a different meat, see if I got a different result. read more

Staxx BBQ - Brisket sandwich with mac n cheese. - Barbeque Near Me - Frankfort, Kentucky

The sweet potato fries are delicious and so is everything else! The staff was great and everyone was super friendly. The store was very clean and family friendly! read more

I come for lunch a few times a month through the drive-thru and they are just the friendliest people ever and the food is always wonderful :) read more

Read all the reviews about the catfish so I had to try for myself. Reviews are justified, catfish was excellent! Good service, I will go again. read more

Frankfort is mostly inundated with national chain restaurants, but I wanted to try something local. This was my first visit to Kentucky, and I love to experience different types of bbq wherever I go. The parking lot was almost full when I got there before noon, as this seems to be a local favorite. The interaction between the staff and customers made it clear there are some regulars that stop by often. I opted for the wing and rib combo - with green beans for my side. Everything came 'naked' as there are a number of sauces available at the table, as well as one at the drink station. The green beans were fairly bland and benefitted with some salt and pepper. The wings were well done, and had a nice smoke flavor. The ribs were almost fall of the bone, but still had a bit of a pull to them - which I prefer. I've certainly had better bbq, but if you're in the area - it's worth the stop. read more

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A worker at Buffalo Trace recommended this place for barbecue. It's actually a fast food restaurant with inedibly dry pulled chicken and rubbery brisket. Avoid, my friend, avoid. read more

Pro: Portion Size. A ton of brisket on the slider. Sauces were alright, but anything off the shelf at Kroger would compete. Con: Bland. Horribly bland. No smoke flavor or bark. The pulled pork tasted like it was the bottom of the pan, dried out from a few days ago. We didn't even finish the pork, sauce couldn't save it. I really wanted to like this place. There will be a second chance, but not for a while. I hate giving bad reviews, but this experience wasn't mediocre and walk away, the food was below mediocre and I hate that for them. read more

There's a lot of competition for good barbecue in Kentucky, and this place ends up being a slight disappointment. I got the three meat platter with cole slaw and mac and cheese. The cole slaw, sausage, and pulled pork were all very good, especially with a mix of their sweet and their spicy barbecue sauces, but the brisket was kind of dry, and the mac and cheese had hardly any flavor. There's still plenty of options for a great meal overall, but some options need some work. read more

Ribs are phenomenal. Meat falls right off the bone. Brisket, pulled pork are great. Served 8 of us quickly and got the order right. Great place to eat while touring distilleries. read more

Love their BBQ. Have been to their location at Buffalo Trace as well as their restaurant in Frankfort. When we are in the area...I plan my trip to make sure I get at least 1 meal there. read more

Good BBQ... excellent sweet sauce... nice green beans with a hint of meat- I added honey and butter... so very nice compliment!!!! Ribs and wings combo I'll be back when here!!!!!!! read more