Deez Butts BBQ — Restaurant in Elizabethtown

I organized a work group to visit this restaurant during their Micro Wrestling event. It cost 30.00 to step foot in the parking lot where the event was held, and you were required to bring your own chair. No biggie, we chose to order some food and drinks on the patio. Most of the drinks were hot because they kept running out of ice, so we settled on lukewarm beer and a pork sandwich. The food arrived fast, and the staff were extremely pleasant. I took a bite of the pulled pork where I spent the next 15 minutes trying to chew it enough to wash it down with a hot beer. The meat was so dry, it was like snacking on dryer lint. Gave up on the sandwich after that failed asphyxiation attempt and moved inside to enjoy some music. My coworker who is typically the life of the party was feeding the jukebox and getting the other patrons song requests ensuring everyone in the bar area was having a nice time. I took note of the typical gaggle of drunk girls feebly attempting to bob their derrières to the music. One little filly stood out amongst the herd as a social butterfly, grinding on the other dance participants, male and female, indiscriminately. I became aware of a middle-aged gentleman pacing the bar area like a neutered house cat glaring at the male patrons. I said self, that one is going to cause a ruckus! A few top 20 later, we moved back to the patio to listen to the local artist finishing up his set. It was at this point, my coworker's fan club, including the leader of the drunken dance team, descended upon him as he sat in a patio chair. He indulged the chaos briefly until the neutered house cat quickly approached him, looming over his seat insinuating that he had become too friendly with his wife, the queen drunk. As my coworker was being verbally pummeled by this disgruntled husband figure, the top drunk took it upon herself to join the battery. At this point I stepped between the ensuing attackers and my still seated coworker and asked them to back away. Queen Bee then became belligerent, clapping her hands in my face and trying mightily to master the attitude head swivel. Finally, the show down of testicular fortitude subsided followed by another quick insinuation from the house cat that the arms in the car may be required.

Sounds like any typical Friday night bar story however there is a twist! The House Cat and the Queen Bee are actually the owners of this establishment. So, if you like hot beer, dryer lint and possible violence perpetrated by the establishment owners, boy do I have a...

The good, the meh, and the horrible ribs.

The good is the quality and potion size of the BBQ pork, brisket, and smoked chicken. The corncakes were just as good and has a taste and texture of a thick cornmeal pancake. The meh was the uninteresting meh tasting sides like the creamy cole slaw and greens with plenty of juice and zero meat. The weird was the inclusion of very heavy handed dill mashed potatoes as a side option but they were creamy and tasted ok. The most disappointing side was the peachy baked beans. The peach part was 2 pinkie nail sized odd shaped pieces of canned peaches that did anything to add to the side dish other than make my last bite of the beans mushy. Otherwise they were standard baked beans. The worst item was the ribs. As my boyfriend pointed out after trying a bite they "boiled the flavor out of them until dry". Keep in mind, I have eaten ribs both wet and dry from all over the nation but this was the only ribs in my life I took one bite of and did not want another. These are very dry unseasoned ribs. This is even considering the $2 upcharge for 2 measly ribs on a platter. Most other BBQ places offers 3 ribs per a standard lunch portion or 4 to 5 for a dinner portion. Two table sauces I did try with all of the meats (including the ribs with some coaxing). One moderate spicy tomato based one that was great with the smoked chicken and the other a thin sweet vinegar molasses that makes a great brisket glaze. Neither of these sauces could not save these ribs so over 1.5 ribs were left on my plate. Service was stupidly slow for something as basic as drink refills with only 3 tables full of customers in the main dining area. Did not venture into the bar area this visit. Both single occupancy bathrooms are most likely not compliant with the ADA due to the stupid barrier jutting from the wall into the narrow walkway. Overall, not the worst experience in my life but my willingness to return here or recommend this place...

I guess I'm one of the few that didn't have a good experience.

We drove down south, saw the sign on the highway, and said we would stop on our way back. We stopped at 1:00 p.m. on wednesday. Walking up, I saw people with loaded spuds, and thought "well that looks amazing! I'm getting that!"

We sat down. We were told they were out of brisket. Bummer for me, that's what I was going to get on my spud. A few minutes later the bartender / waitress comes back, I put in my order for a loaded spud. "We're out of potatoes. We just put some in the oven but they're not ready yet." Bummer number 2.

At this point I have to pick something on the fly. She offered loaded fries but I didn't want fries. I got three sides. My boyfriend got the three meats two sides combo. She came out with our food fairly quickly. As she walked away, we realized that they only gave my boyfriend one meat on his tray.

That was kind of the last straw for us. We called her back and told her that there was only one meat. I started saying, "This is really disappointing. I was-" She cut me off and got extremely defensive. I couldn't even finish my thought. She said "We're just a small restaurant," and something else that was more defensive than understanding. After we ate, my boyfriend had to go up to the bar to ask for a box for his food.

20% of the meats on the menu were unavailable. I guess you only make 5 potatoes at a time. I grew up in West Virginia where if there's a problem, you listen and try to fix it. I've worked in restaurants and other customer service positions and this was just rude. The waitress didnt even try to listen to my concern.

Two stars because the food tasted decent. My boyfriend said the ribs were chewy, but the pork was good. The turkey?or chicken was dry. The tables could use salt and pepper shakers, as I thought the greens were a little bland. Overall disappointing. I thought the south was supposed to...