Rosedale Bar-B-Q — Restaurant in Kansas City

The only time I visited Rosedale Bar-B-Q was back in late April 2021. Me and my family went to Rosedale when one of our friends of our family came to visit us in Kansas City. Rosedale Bar-B-Q is meant as one of the finest barbecue restaurants in the United States of America that has been around for over 70 years. When Rosedale first opened, it was founded by Anthony and Alda Rieke along with Tony Sielman in 1934 and the place was originally a neighborhood hot dog and beer stand known as "The Bucket Shop." At the Bucket Shop customers could buy a half-gallon bucket full of the coldest beer in Kansas City, Kansas for a quarter. Customers at Rosedale Bar-B-Q claim that the business of the restaurant is the value, service and continuous tradition over the years that keeps them returning to the restaurant for more delicious barbecue. Today, Rosedale Barbecue is Kansas City's oldest major barbecue restaurant continuously owned and operated by the same family and their newer and still alive family members. Rosedale Bar-B-Q has been recognized by The New Yorker, Midwest Living, Bon Appetit, Gourmet, Saveur, Chili Pepper, Cowboys & Indians, The Travel Channel, Kansas City Public Television, and many others have written about the long-running Kansas City barbeque institution.

The menu at Rosedale Bar-B-Q is known for every meat and food that a typical barbecue restaurant always and is most likely to serve. Foods served at Rosedale include slabs or pork spare ribs, barbecue sandwiches, meats by the pound, barbecue dinner plates, side dishes, and of course barbecue sauces and barbecue rubs. Rosedale Bar-B-Q’s version of barbecue sauce is a spicy, mildly hot family recipe that compliments the meat to perfection. Many restaurants serve a "smokey-style" flavored sauce but Mr. Rieke always believed the smoked flavor should be in the meat, not artificially put into the sauce. When I visited Rosedale Bar-B-Que, I ate a combo plate with two BBQ meats served along with 3 side dishes. In my opinion, I personally thought that the meats I ordered were cooked right to taste good, but I kind of thought Rosedale’s barbecue sauce was a little too spicy for my mouth. On the other hand, the 3 side dishes I ordered tasted right as well as the other things. Rosedale Bar-B-Q had some good service that takes to be a superbly successful barbecue restaurant. The restaurant of Rosedale Bar-B-Q today is still a bar as well because it serves beer.

If customers or barbecue lovers are curious about which places are considered the “longest-running” barbecue restaurants in Kansas City for some Kansas City-style barbecue, I would recommend that they visit Rosedale Bar-B-Q. The restaurant of Rosedale Bar-B-Q itself has been around for a very long time as a barbecue restaurant and bar because they are always successful in making their customers happy and satisfied...

Went here to pick up my call in order and had to wait a little over a hour when it was supposed to be ready. In the meantime they ran out of 90% of there side items. Had lines at both ends of the place. The people working here could care less about anything other then themselves. The weird young gal working the register by the out door patio was on Facebook while she had at least 25 people in line. Everyone of the ladies working up front was hateful and rude. They didn't give us but one cup of BBQ sauce on a order that was well over $100 there was lots and lots and lots of fat on the meat. Mind you I got the beld buster alone and it comes with three types of meat and it was all fatty even the pulled chicken. I have been coming here for years and years and this place is rolling down hill very fast. The sauce even taste like someone dumped a bag of sugar in it. My kid's wouldn't even eat there food it was so horrible. I love BBQ but I will never go back to Rosedale BBQ. I will stick to Oklahoma Joe's and Jack Stack. I have been loyal to this place for years and on Father's day they served me my last meal I will ever buy from them. Fix it or shut it down but something has to change or they will be out of business...

Goal - eat at all the BBQ joints in KC. Theory - if they've been in business for several years, it's so competitive in KC, they've got to be doing something right. I've eaten here a handful of times. The last time I was there I had their ribs. I think I got a bad cut of meat. Don't get me wrong they were tender, fell off the bone, but they were super fatty, super greasy. I ordered the corn nuggets, because the gal answered that they were really good, when I asked her what side I should get. These were amazing! Like fried corn soaked in milk and sugar. That may sound bad, but put one in your mouth and you'll think, I'm not sharing these." The times I went before, back in the 90s, I had sandwiches and it seems to me they were very good, but didn't use as much meat as other BBQ joints. These guys do a lot of lunch business. Lines from both sides, but they move pretty quickly. The decor is plain joint with well worn chairs tables and booths. I'm not a huge fan of their sauce, it seems a little thin. Since I've only been there once recently and I know lots of people who love this place, they deserve another try, so I'll be back, if for nothing other than the corn...