[Resolute Conservative]

BBQ is highly overrated. What used to be a nominally priced restaurant choice has ballooned into fat meat that is too charred or greasy with crappy sauces and costs too much. Every establishment wants to put their own twist on the sauce and usually screw it up and make it too spicey (hot) or tastes like ditch water. I would venture that only 1 out every 20 places are worth eating.

When you do find one that is good you can’t afford to eat there compared to other options. You can do much better at your own home for less than half the cost.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

See my #4 and if you are critique-ing...just DM me with your choice of meat.
I’ve got wings on for this evening.

[Larry Lucido]

Very true.

But I did like Stanley’s in Tyler, Texas. Been a while, though.

[texas booster]

We ate at Interstellar BBQ in Austin a couple of years ago. Very fancy cooking, and I called it BBQ fit for a BBQ competition.

Not something that I would go to for a regular meal.

Plenty of those places still left, and you can tell them by the smoke marks around the smoker.

BTW, I would visit several of these joints in his list, if only because the chimney/smokehouse has 50+ years of soot.

[Dr. Sivana]

What used to be a nominally priced restaurant choice has ballooned into fat meat that is too charred or greasy with crappy sauces and costs too much.

A slab of ribs was always expensive in my memory, even in the poor sections of Chicago. Extravagantly expensive when served at over-rated downtown joints like Carsons.

Brisket was the cheap choice.

[Tommy Revolts]

Spot on.

All the BBQ around here is done in my own backyard.

[decal]

What’s this “sauce” stuff you speak of?

Oh, that stuff you use to cover up your mistakes.