Drove up to Slippery Rock this weekend. There is a new Texas style BBQ up there. It is on the road from 79 to SR. I think that is 108 about 2-3 miles from 79. The decor is fancy for a BBQ, that is, you can sit down and you get served on real plates. Other than that it looks kind of white and pre-fab. But the food was excellent. Sauce added after cooking, you could taste the smoke on the meat. We tried the chopped BBQ, the Beef, and the Pork. All very good. We did not have the ribs or chicken or sides, but I suspect they will be good. And not expensive at all. The sandwich is $3.50. And they had an Oct special, $5 for sandwich and bowl of chile. The chile was good, but nothing special. The promise they will add some cajun stuff to the menu, but I did not ask when. I strongly recommend the place if you are in the area. It is the best of the BBQ I have found in the area, but I am very partial to Texas style. Matt Silberstein ------------------------------------------------------- You can't enslave a free man - RAH No man with a family is free - Matt's corollary Free men do nothing for humanity - Matt's second corollary
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You're right. I'm the same way, but not just about BBQ. So I was just being silly with my "excuse" remark. I've driven to Cinncinati for chili. I planned a cross country trip to take me to "food" places. When I drove out to California in '91 I came back through Arizona (where I made sure to visit Tuba City and the Tuba City Truck Stop Cafe for the world's best Navajo Taco [it was!]), New Mexico (where I visited the Central Pharmacy in Albuquerque for the world's best Huevos Rancheros [they were!] and Tusuque [just north of Alb.] (for the blue corn tortilla chicken enchiladas at the little restaurant/deli/grocery/one-time gas station the name of which I don't recall), and Kansas City (for Stroud's chicken dinner [disappointing]). Future "food" trips I'm hoping to take are to Rochester, NY, for Nick Tahoe's Garbage Plate, a road trip around PA to check out various diners featured on the Rick Sebak show about diners (can't recall the title - was it "The Road Show" or was that a different one?), and Memphis, TN, for the Memphis-style BBQ pizza. (I'll hit Cinn. again on the way down for some more Cinn. chili.) Of course, I use any excuse I can find to go to Lancaster, PA, so I can have dinner at Good 'n Plenty (PA Dutch family-style dining - I *love* their shoo-fly pie). If I'm within 60 miles of Good 'n Plenty I make a special detour to eat there. Also I went to DC a couple of years ago with my dining group, Eaternet, for an Ethiopian dinner and snuck in a Brazilian lunch while we were at it. A BBQ road tour of the U.S. sounds like fun if I can ever afford it. I made copious notes when watching that PBS documentary about BBQ. Most of those places were east of the Miss. River so it might not be that difficult a feat. I used to go to Alabama to visit my aunt and I would just swoon over the pulled pork bbq they had down there. Yum! Kate Kate Connally " If I were as old as I feel, I 'd be dead already." wrote in article ... > Kate C. wrote: > time I go up. Should be about two weeks. > > > > Thanks, Matt. Now all I need is a excuse to drive up to S. R. > > Kate > > Good Heavens. Here I am thinking that this ,finally, _is_ the excuse I need > to visit Slippery Rock! Of course, I'm the guy that drove to New Mexico two > years ago largely so I could visit BBQ joints in St. Louis and Kansas City on > the way out and who then took the backroad BBQ tour across Texas, Arkansas, > and Tennessee on the way home. Good BBQ (or the rumour of it) is always > reason enough to visit someplace, isn't it? ;-) > > Jeff > ==---------- Your Own >
I'm a little late in following this thread, but the subject "Texas BBQ" gives me the opportunity to pitch Clem's BBQ on Rt. 22 about 15 miles east of Monroeville. Separate smokehouse, no-frills service, excellent BBQ ribs and chicken. Served with cheap potato chips. Outdoors. On picnic tables. With loads of hot sauce at your fingertips. Clem's gotta be from Texas, and I'm pretty sure he airlifted the whole operation from the Plains of the Lone Star State. And I can't avoid mentioning the Backyard BBQ (formerly the House of Sauce). A 200-sq ft. facility, 3/4's of which is occupied by the cinder-block-and-iron-grate BBQ pit. The meat you buy is guaranteed to have been on that grill for at least 12 hours. Fine Texas style.
I actually got to Texas BBQ the weekend before last. My sister and her husband were visiting from CA and he wanted to go fishing. The places that had been recommended to him were up near Volant and McConnell's Mill. So on the way up we went to the BBQ place for lunch. I had the giant baked potato topped with chopped pork bbq , cheddar cheese, and sour cream. It was quite good. My sister ordered the pork sandwich which was sliced pork. She was not too impressed and from the looks of it I wouldn't have cared for it. I would have expected the pork to be at least thinly sliced but it was in quite thick slabs. No chance for the sauce to penetrate and permeate the meat. Since they obviously have the chopped pork available for the potato thing I don't know why they wouldn't serve that in the sandwich as well. I've never heard of serving thick slices of pork in a sandwich like that. Anyway, the sauce was good and if I go back I will ask for the chopped pork to be put in a sandwich for me. My bil had the combo - pork and brisket - sandwich. This meat was chopped/shredded. He thought it was very good. Kate Kate Connally " If I were as old as I feel, I 'd be dead already."