TeeDawg's BBQ — Restaurant in Charles Town

BUYER BEWARE, YOU'RE IN FOR A SCARE!

Honestly, it really takes A LOT for me to leave a review on anything, even if the food/service is absolutely tremendous. However, after reading a majority of the reviews on here, I have concluded that they're fake or have absolutely ZERO taste in what good barbecue tastes like. I guess if your weekly diet consists of the nightly Steel Reserve tall boy, a pack of Marlboro Reds, and a Hungry Man boxed TV dinner, which might be the case for some of the frequent customers that find this place acceptable, then you might enjoy this place.

I stopped at TeeDawg's with my fiancée on our way to the Charles Town Horse Track completely starving under the guise that this place had some decent barbecue based on the reviews. I quickly learned how wrong I was on that naive assumption. I ordered smoked wings with ghost pepper thinking that they would actually be in fact genuine ghost pepper. After tasting the wings, which I can only assume were made some time a day or two before, stuck in the fridge, and followed by a quick 30-second reheat in the microwave, I was completely disappointed to find that these wings had absolutely no spice to them whatsoever. The server, who was a nice woman, came over to ask how they were and when I told her I couldn't tell the difference between the ghost pepper and the barbecue wings she had a very bewildered look on her face. I'm not claiming to be a spicy food connoisseur, but I have had enough peppers that exceed 1,000,000 Scoville units to tell the difference between a ghost pepper and your regular pepperoncini. The false advertisement here is absolutely embarrassing doubled with the fact that we paid nearly $20 for 12 very small, lukewarm wings. I tried my fiancée's pulled pork, and I've honestly had a better barbecue at a chow hall in boot camp.

Ownership should be completely ashamed by their ludicrous prices and offerings at this establishment. People who truly care about the quality of barbecue should look elsewhere. As one other reviewer alluded to, if you want barbecue, then a McDonald's McRib would be a better fit than what this place is slinging out of their kitchen. I honestly think for the price and quality that you're better served to go into a gas station and grab whatever hot prepared food that contains generic barbecue sauce for a better alternative as well. I'm all for supporting small businesses but please do yourself a favor and look elsewhere.

I'd give this place a zero if I could, but since I can not a 1 will...

So, I kept hearing everyone rave about this place. I can't for the life of me figure out why. My wife and I went there and got 3 meals with an assortment of their offerings. All I can say is that the people here leaving these glaring reviews must not know what real BBQ is. The pulled pork/ chicken was so salty ... like licking a salt block after chipping off a piece and eating it. The amount they give is a good bit, but for the price it's highly overpriced and ridiculously to salty and I like salty foods. The BBQ ribs were literally still raw in places. i know BBQ ribs are supposed to be still pink in places and I have more BBQ ribs from more places around the US than most people. These were still RAW in place and they tasted like they were smoked or cooked over rotten pallet wood. they were mostly uneatable. The "corn bread" was a muffin that was tiny ... TINY and to call it cornbread is an offense to real cornbread. The mac and cheese was basically the same thing you get at every place that does baked mac and cheese. The trouble is ... where was the cheese? it had one tiny chunk of the baked burnt cheese on top and then the mac part was freaking plain mac ... where was the cheese? the "specialty" BBQ sauce we paid extra for was basically the same as many of those that can be bought on a Wal-mart shelf and we both suspect it was.

Save your money .... save your time .... save your gas .... and either learn to make better at home .... which if you judge by this will not be hard to do or find better around. there is better around...

Had ribs, mac and cheese and brisket nachos.

Clean restrooms, friendly bar tender and seemed good after reading reviews. I wasn’t going to be so honest, but my wife said that’s what’s wrong with the world today they need to hear the truth so they grow.. that’s how you grow.

Ribs: They taste like the inside of a very old and dirty stale smoker. I hate to say it but it almost taste like cigarette smoke gets blown in the grill. We could not eat them and it was an entire rack. We were going to take them home and try to fix them somehow but the smell in the truck was bad, so we left then at 7-11 down the street. Mac and cheese: Taste like noodle water with hardly any cheese and wet. Not good Brisket Nachos: a big pile of soggy chips from so much mess. Our opinion is that it was not good honestly, and we love BBQ

Thank you for the warm and friendly service! Best of luck...