CaveMan Kitchen — Restaurant in Kent

Stopped in here on a Friday at 330pm on our way south to try to wait out traffic. That plan didn't really work (it still took us about 3 hours to get home), but discovering this place made it worth it.

My step dad mentioned that he'd come here once in 1979 when he was working in the area and never forgot about it. No indoor seating, friendliest people and the best BBQ you can find around. Between the four of us in the car, we got 2 pork rib dinners (one with some supremely thick chili, and the other with a side salad), an order of the polish sausage dinner, an Alabama slam sandwich and (I believe) an order of smoked salmon.

The pork ribs do come smothered, which I know is not a style of BBQ that everyone agrees with, but man, are they delicious. Incredible amounts of meat on every bone, and the BBQ isn't too spicy or tangy.

What I thought was kind of weird was that when we were sitting on the picnic tables in front of the place, there was a classic car sitting in the parking lot idling with no one in it. Other people came up to pick up orders and just left their cars in the parking lot running. This...doesn't feel like the greatest neighborhood (there was a car with a boot on it across the street) but there must be some high trust and magic with this place or the people that run it. The owner had come in after we'd placed our order, and when I went in to pick it up, she commented about how they make everything from scratch there, including the salad dressings, and had them put other dressings in with our order to try. My mom couldn't believe how good their balsamic was!

When the owner came out to talk to us at the table while we were finishing up eating, she told us that her dad worked in tool & die at Boeing, and had opened the restaurant in 1971 because he was worried about how everybody had started smoking dope, so he needed to give his kids something else to smoke - and they've been in business ever since, in the same location, even after a fire burned the place down and lawsuits over the name.

Additional things to try when you're here: the dragon wheel (seasoned roasted root vegetables), the bootleg pudding (a bread pudding, the owner told us how her dad had made this up, but I can't remember it), the carrot cake, and the porkcicles (these are...

The lady in the front who took our order seemed nice enough.... she seemed forgetful with giving people their drink cups... as well the one request to our order we made of putting the sause on the side was looked past and instead sauce was puton the ribs anyway and it wasn’t offered to be corrected at all ... probably to cover up the bad ribs.... some people need to keep track of there sugar intake so unfortunately that wasn’t very well accomedated but, besides that I think she really tried to engadge well with customers that’s probably the only good thing I have to say about this place though; it took at least 30 minutes to get our order, an order which cost over $50 including the nice tip which we ended up regretting, I personally feel ripped off quite hard by this place ... 5.99 to add a drink and a SMALL side was definitely not worth it! the salmon sandwich was like 16.99 and had barely any salmon it! honestly felt like I was eating bread with a hint of fish :/ for the price you expect an actual piece of salmon not a salmon salad! the dip was incredibly over salted aswell! the staff seemed to talk up the salmon but I was truly unimpressed and felt like for the price the lack of salmon and taste really was and unpleasant experience.... my Husband got the ribs they have signs all over boasting best bbq... really the ribs were tough either over cooked, sitting too long or even more likely previously frozen... they were hard to chew through and terrible cuts! the bbq sauce tasted like overly sweet ketchup.... if these guys have such high ratings I feel like me and my husband, which keep in mind are not really chefs could go open a 5 star michelin kitchen :/ It really makes me feel bad for my husband as he talked this place up himself... he was so excited to go and I was excited for him! He hasn’t been there in about 20 years... he ended up leaving disappointed he has worked with meat and seafood for his whole career and says these are the cheapest cuts of meat they could probably get ... we could have gone to red lobster or P.F. Chang’s and spent $50 with tip and gotten something actually worth it! it’s really terrible bbq won’t be back no wonder they have a sign what happens at caveman stays at...

In a land where flavors dance and ignite, There lies a haven, a culinary delight. A place where fire's embrace fills the air, Welcome, my friends, to Caveman Kitchen's lair.

Step inside and behold the primal glow, Where the art of BBQ starts to show. A symphony of spices, a sizzle and a hiss, As smoke swirls and the meat receives its bliss.

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