The Real Deal an American Kitchen — Restaurant in Hammond

I’m a trucker. I’ve given their food 2 tries now.

First time was a shrimp poorboy. Bread was hard (not toasted hard; stale hard), fried shrimp was rubbery. Nothing special about the flavor or sauce. 1 star because it was “edible”. It wasn’t so bad I had to throw it away. Definitely something you just kinda ate because you were hungry and way over paid for it.

1/10

A few months later…

Second attempt, 2 meat plate with 2 sides.

3 ribs, pulled pork, potato salad, Mac and cheese and a slice of bread. I also tried a boudin egg roll. And I got a medium sized side of Red Beans and rice for later.

They messed up and gave me baked beans instead of Mac and cheese. Baked beans stayed in the plate. Gave me a small side of Mac and cheese separate.

Boudin eggroll was dark brown. Over fried in my opinion. Flavor was ok.

4/10.

Ribs were tender yet rubbery,,no real flavor. Dry rub style.

3/10 ate a couple bites of each rib, trashed the rest.

Ribs and pulled pork were in the same tray, don’t know if the oil was from the pulled pork or ribs, but both were swimming in 1/2 of orange oil.

Even drained, pulled pork tasted like oily sludge. Inedible even when you dump the included BBQ sauce on top.

0/10. Trashed it.

Potato salad had zero chunks of potato and was the consistency of almost runny instant mashed potatoes. Only slight flavor. Worst potato salad I’ve ever had in my life. It was white, but had no mayo flavor. Small hint of mustard flavor.

I’m fat. I’ve ate a lot of potato salads in my life. Mayo and mustard based. Even Amish style. Homemade, store bought, family get togethers and 4th of July parties.

1/10 Ate half, trashed the rest.

Mac and cheese was watery. Like they didn’t bother to drain the water off the noodles before mixing in the really weak flavor cheese. Was white in color. No shade of yellow.

A Great Value brand microwave cup of Mac and cheese would get a higher rating.

2/10 I ate all of it. It was 4oz (tiny).

The baked beans I wasn’t supposed to get, were on point! Thick, sweet, would buy again. Ate all of them.

6/10.

Red Beans and rice. Scoop of rice dumped on top. Rice was hard as a rock. Wouldn’t chip apart. Inedible.

0/10

Beans smelled funky. Sage or some odd seasoning? It was off putting. Could taste it too. Wasn’t repulsive, but definitely not a good flavor. Has thin sliced smoked sausage in it.

Took 2 bites of the beans with no rice and trashed it. 2/10.

Slice of bread looked fine, had butter, but was limp. I wouldn’t call it soggy, but definitely warmed just enough to melt the butter. It definitely wasn’t “toasted”. 3/10

So ate 10-20% of the food I paid $29 for.

I won’t be giving this place...

I was looking for a place to park my truck for the night when I saw this restaurant.

Real deal an american kitchen, looks like one of those places you'd see on a documentary about America's best barbecue joints. On the outside is got that "best god damn barbecue you ever had in your life", look to it.

After reading through a lot of these reviews, I've come to the conclusion that the majority of people in the world, don't know what good food taste like.

I'm just gonna be direct. The food tastes below average at best. Bbq sauce tastes like Walmart brand sauce. The ribs are tender and cooked perfectly, but they lack seasonings and flavor. The same could be said of the flavorless brisket. The macaroni and cheese also had that fresh out of the box flavor. And the barbecue beans tasted like canned beans with Walmart bbq sauce added. The grilled piece of white bread that they gave me tasted okay. And to be honest, it was the only hot item on my plate.

The young lady who took my order was friendly. She gets 5 stars. It's almost like they hired her to be the face of this sub par barbecue joint. I'm sure she didn't have nothing to do with the flavor of that food.

fyi: If you walk up to this restaurant, there may be someone standing just outside that follows you around asking you to buy them something to eat.

I mean for $28 bucks, (including a bottle of coke) it was very disappointing. This is my first time visiting Louisiana. I know the state can do barbecue better than this. Nothing on my plate with the exception of the grilled piece of...

When the guy handed us the food, he genuinely said "it was made with love" and when I smelled that food I told my sister: "I think it really was made with love." When I took a look at that loaded baked potato. Oh my God. It was REALLY loaded. I didn't know what loaded meant until I got their LOADED potato. The potato was cooked to perfection, not mushy or overcooked, but distinctly firm. The perfect combination of the cheese, the jalapenos, sliced onions, sliced tomatoes, the brisket, ugh, my mouth is watering all over again. I'm so full, I feel fat as a tick and I'm bout to lay down like a turtle on a rock. And I'm gonna hit that baked potato one more time after I get more room in my stomach. They weren't joking when they named the place the real deal. Go show some support for these guys and their...