Famous Dave's Bar-B-Que — Restaurant in El Centro

O...M...Gosh! This place is BAD!!! Okay, I'm leaving 2 reviews that happened in less than one week. 1st, the most recent was Thanksgiving. I've got to say that the smoked turkey was delicious but they didn't give nearly enough. You think you're getting a decent serving until you realize it's sitting on a large piece of bread. Who wants bread on Thanksgiving? We're "supposed" to get stuffing! Well, the stuffing was the real problem. I'm hoping to post pictures of it on here. Apparently they opened a box of StoveTop, forgot to prepare it, and just poured the loose bread crumbs into little bowls with lids and passed that off as a side. It's not cooked, it's not anything! It's just loose dry bread crumbs!!! The broccoli wasn't cooked, completely raw. I cooked it at home though and we were able to eat it. The savior of the meal (at $21 per person plus an additional fee.) was that turkey, just wish they had given more.

Okay, now onto the meal my husband and I ordered less than a week before. We had ordered 2 chopped pork sandwiches. THEY WERE DISGUSTING!!!!! It tasted like they had literally poured salt over the entire sandwiches, both of them! We were so dehydrated after choking them down. I had ordered them to go and it was too far away to take them back. They were also soooooooo dry!!!!! I had to use an entire packet of bbq sauce on mine and it was still chokingly dry. The beans were good but we didn't pay $35 plus (with tip) to have to force a sandwich down. We have always been patrons of Famous Dave's but in Yuma Az. I guess the El Centro store needs a serious manager change. I cannot recommend this place to...

Came from TX so I know BBQ, even if slightly spoiled. Food was alright but not good.

Serving size was acceptable but slightly skimpy. Nothing came out hot enough. Didn't serve the combo with pickles or pickled onions. Corn muffin came without butter. Sauce is way too sweet and had no tang and was lacking in spices. Brisket had good color but bark wasn't very bark like/no splash of juice on top, just the syrupy sauce. Ribs are also fine but feels like they skimped on the rub and opted for sauce alone. Turkey was okay smothered in gravy but was weak. Store style gravy made it acceptable, though not something I would pay for compared to what you can get from a store. Didn't offer sausage. Chicken was okay. Mac and Cheese had chopped peppers and bits which were good but was underseasoned and overcooked, reminded me of Kraft and needed more cheese, maybe a crumb topping.

Admittedly, the food smelled better from the outside than it tasted when i got inside, so maybe it was a bad day?

Unsure why they served the food on two trays when the paltry amount could have fit on one.

Service was friendly but hit or miss in terms of always being there when I was trying to eat but disappearing when I wanted to pay. Left a solid tip because I guess it's an A-for Effort.

I wouldn't come back here again unless I was coming for the bar or was going out with friends who wanted to come here, though I'd do my best to discourage them if they're really friends.

Ambience is good. Has...

Sorry to say, terrible service. We dined in on a Tuesday evening. No one at front desk so we sat down and waited few minutes in a family comes in and waited in front of desk until someone came. So we lost our place for sitting down. We're not to lazy to stand. We just have disabilities. So after this we finally get noted and we were told it be about a 20 minute wait to be seated at a table which we were ok with. So after being seated at a table we're there waiting and waiting and no one would bother to ask us if we had be waited on. At this point we were debating walking out but my friend decided to call out one of the waitresses to get us help and only because she invited here for birthday dinner. The waitress sent us the waiter that was responsible for that And instead of apologizing for the very long wait he responded by saying we should have called him out. "Really" this gentleman passed by us a few times and completely ignored us. And I was supposed to know he was assigned to our table Still trying to give this place the benefit of the doubt in this review but this is the truth. With an open mind, they might of been short staff. But I would suggest placing a sign at the front desk apologizing for being short staff and that this may...