The Pit Stop Sports Bar & BBQ Grill — Restaurant in Beaverton

This is the worst takeout I have ever ordered. My fiance and I ordered our dinner from here tonight. He got the chicken strips and fries, I ordered the sampler plate which included brisket, quarter rack of baby back ribs, and pulled pork. It also came with Texas toast and my choice of side, ceaser salad. I also ordered potato salad and a bowl of soup.

My fiance is a chicken strip aficionado. He has crohns disease and is therefore limited in what he can eat. Chicken strips remain one of his go to meals to the point that it is the first thing he looks for on any menu. They are pretty hard to get wrong, and wrong they were. On the outside they looked promising, the chicken strips were perfectly golden and the fries looked good as well. However they lacked flavor. This is going to be a recurring theme of this review. He barely touched them. I tried a bite as well and was also disapointed.

I had high hopes for the sampler plate. I love bbq. I too was very disappointed. Wal-Mart sells bbq brisket you can microwave for a quick meal. When I opened my takeout container it looked like the microwave brisket from Wal-Mart. In truth it tasted far worse. It was rubbery and the meat lacked flavor. Same for the pulled pork. I am most disappointed in the ribs. They didn't have much meat and the meat they had had the dubious distinction of being both greasy and overcooked.The Texas toast was the soggiest I have ever eaten and had barely any flavor. The only good part of the meal was the salad. It was fresh, the croutons were good, it had an adequate amount of parmesan and I really enjoyed the ranch they used. However, the highlight of the meal should not be a side salad.

It is worth mentioning that both meals came with bbq sauce. I tried it but couldn't bring myself to use it. It had some over powering flavor. I had my fiance, a southerner, try the bbq sauce. As someone who has lived in both Arkansas and Tennehesse he knows good sauce when he tastes it. The look on his face was unforgettable . I have never seen him grimace like that. He ran into the kitchen to get a drink of water. When he returned he exclaimed that it tasted like they just dumped a bunch of fake smoke in there.

The portion of potato salad was large, but looked unpromising. It came in a deli container , but store potato salad would have been better. There appeared to be a minute sprinkling of ingredients other than potato and mayonnaise but it didn't taste like it. It is the blandest potato salad I have ever tasted. It could have used discernable amounts of salt, pepper, and other spices. Or better yet not existed at all. I'm not sure what kind of soup I recieved. It was the soup of the day and was creamy in nature with what appeared to be shredded chicken straight from a can. The first taste was like a creamy gravy, the second taste was an overpowering garlic flavor. I didn't bother with a third taste.

I am not sure if Pit Stop was understaffed, over crowded, or the cooks were new and untrained. But frankly it doesn't matter. I worked in a bistro in an upscale neighborhood In San Diego. I understand that on a bad night some mistakes can happen. However, there should never be this many mistakes in one meal. It cost us 41 dollars plus the nine dollars to Postmates and was worth none of what I spent. I was fuming mad , to the point in surprised my fiance and he commented he has never seen me this mad before. Maybe Pit Stop had an off night, but I won't be trying it again...

Usually, my friend and I come here occasionally for a couple of drinks and snacks, sit at the bar and we have a decent time. Last weekend, July 27th. We wanted to go one last time to our favorite spot since I’m moving. My kid brother and sisters were visiting from Maryland. Remembering we seen a bartenders kids get dropped off when we were there, we called to see if there was any family friendly areas. We were told it was minor friendly until 8pm. We get there just after 6:30pm. Picked a table outside, and my friend and I went inside to order. Right away the bartender (I believe her name was Dani?) seemed to have a little attitude but we didn’t think much of it. I had ordered garlic cheese fries as I always do when I ordered my drink. As soon as she walked outside with my food I could see she was extremely annoyed and the attitude progressed a tad. I felt so uncomfortable I didn’t want to mention that I asked for cheese fries, and received plain garlic fries. When I went into ask for water, these two consumers( probably regulars) were standing there pointing and laughing at me. Again, didn’t really think much of it. I went back outside, and there was only maybe 4 other people out there sitting down. So my brother and sister went over to play corn hole. One of the ladies that was standing there laughing came running out ran and picked up a sand bag my sister was reaching for and flung it and was shouting at two other people that were out there. As soon as she did that, club music came on and it definitely wasn’t family friendly music. I looked down and it was just after 7. I looked at my friend and asked her to go cash out because clearly we aren’t welcome anymore. She came outside and was pretty upset with the way the bartender treated her. She walked in and could hear the bartender shouting to a customer “ and the girls outside” and shut up and soon as she saw her. When she asked to cash out she got snarked at “ ya you are ready to cash out” and got the fakest “have a great day”. I work in consumer service, so does my friend, the attitude we received was so unacceptable. We understood that having the kids might have caused the frustration, but they are 9 & 12, and they were extremely well behaved the entire time. ON TOP OF BEING OUTSIDE. I felt like the bartender was trying to push us out the entire time, influencing the guests behavior and whatnot. It made me sad, that my siblings visiting out of town were made to feel like a problem, WHEN WE WERE TOLD THEY COULD BE THERE UNTIL 8. And that my last time at my favorite place made me change my opinion of the restaurant. I just wish that she would have been honest when we called instead of making our...

My wife and I ordered take out form here as we recently moved and it is nearby. We were really excited to try it as the menu looked great and we thought it could become our new go to spot... We got chicken fingers, fettuccine Alfredo, and some mac and cheese (classic). Upgraded fries to garlic fries.

Chicken fingers were really gross (wife's words). She ate half of one of them before stopping. The breading was incredibly greasy and they genuinely tasted like frozen items that were just heated up. I couldn't eat more than a bite. The chicken itself was okay I guess, but the breading legitimately made both of us feel sick (and I only took one bite). The mac and cheese was the most bland mac and cheese I have ever eaten in my entire life. And I am sincerely not exaggerating. We stopped eating it after 4/5 bites each and made a box of Costco Annie's Mac and Cheese instead that far outshined the $10 mac and cheese from this place. It didn't seem like there was an ounce of salt, pepper, or seasoning at all.

Fettucine Alfredo wan't terrible, but again, was incredibly bland with sauce that tasted like bottom barrel grocery store alfredo. Garlic fries were the only redeeming thing in the entire meal really. And that was only because of the seasoning, the fries themselves were incredibly bland and had no taste at all. Just generic crinkle cut fries that looked like they came out of a giant bag from a fast food wholesaler.

We were really disappointed. We wanted to try more items off the menu and see if this could become our weekly date night spot. I suppose to give the benefit of the doubt we will maybe order once more to see if there are any changes with varying items, but our hopes are not high.

UPDATE: To give this place the benefit of the doubt, we ate here again last week. Got a wide variety of food. Some of it was actually edible. However, most of it still resembled a unique type of bland reheated cardboard.

If you do come here, eat the meat. It's the only somewhat redeeming thing on the gigantic menu (another foreboding sign - if you see a giant menu you have to think, 75% of this is frozen). Even then, it's still pretty subpar compared to any decent BBQ place.

If you do happen to come here, do so to drink, not to eat. Or drink A LOT first, then eat - as you won't mind the pond scum flavoring they douse everything with.

We will try again in a year and...