My husband and I dined at Rub BBQ tonight. The atmosphere for a restaurant in the city is awesome....you walk in and feel like you are in a BBQ joint in Memphis. There's blues playing, dark wood furnishings, true atmosphere! The joint has everything going for it when it comes to the decor! As far as the BBQ, I have to say we were both pretty disappointed. There is a difference between slow roasted meats and BBQed meats. We had wonderful BBQ in San Antonio at Rudy's where we tasted the wood smoke in the meat. We have also eaten at many other BBQ joints and are very aware there are many different cooking styles. I am not sure where the wood taste was at Rub, but it certainly wasn't in the meat we had. This was more like slowly cooked cuts of meat that you add your own BBQ sauce to. For the prices we paid, I could have thrown it on our propane grill at home to achieve the same effect! We really were not impressed by any of the meats.....we had the Lone Star Platter which was pretty much everything.
I will give one dish total kudos though and that is the corn casserole side dish. It was very tasty, had a lovely brown crust and the inside was sweet and tender. It was the highlight of the meal!
If we go there again, it would probably be for beer, appetizers (chix wings looked good!) and the corn casserole....possibly a dessert. This review really pains me because Rub has a lot of the best elements that you want in a sit down BBQ, but it is missing two key things....the smell of BBQ food enticing you through their door and true BBQ flavors! It's a neat place, but prices reflect the area....not the food!
Pros: Great atmosphere, tasty corn casserole
Cons: Where's the BBQ?
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