I'll preface this by saying that we enjoy BBQ and have eaten it all over the Southern US and are from Kentucky. I've also spent many hours smoking anything smokable, including pulled pork.

This place topped many of the 'Top Ten' lists for the area, so we stopped for a late lunch.

That said, the BBQ here was absolutely terrible. I will explain in detail below.

The place feels much more like a bar than a restaurant. Neat little dining room with a center bar and various seating, decorated with military gear/photos. It's definitely dark.

You order at the bar- menu is drawn on the wall and doesn’t have much info.

They give you a sample of each meat, which is neat.

We ordered a Pork Trifecta, which is 1lb of pork and two sides. It was served in styrofoam drink cups.

Now comes the problems.

The pork was exceptionally bland. No discerable smoke whatsoever, and very little if any seasoning.

The meat was also extremely moist - so much so that it tasted watered down.

It reminded me more of pork that's been cooked in a slow cooker or braised in an oven - nothing at all like a pork butt that's been cooked low and slow on a smoker.

If this was actually cooked on a smoker, whatever they did afterward - or their method - destroyed any flavor or texture qualities the smoker produces.

Second issue- sauce.

Normally, if you have bland bbq, you just drown it in some good sauce.

Here, there were two bottles on the tables. No writing or info of any kind, but one had a red lid and the other a purple.

I tasted both, and was very disappointed in both.

They tasted like someone had 'fancied up' some ketchup. Definitely each its own 'style' - but for us, both very underwhelming and overly sweet.

Not like a Kansas City sweet, just like corn syrup sweet. The most flavor on the table was a bottle of Franks Red-Hot.

For the sides, we got the mac & cheese and tater bites.

The tater bites looked like the seasoned potatoes you get at a hotel breakfast buffet. They had pretty much no flavor, were lukewarm, definitely not fresh, and pretty unappealing. Tried drowning then in ketchup, but it didn't help. We left pretty much the whole order sitting on the table.

The mac & cheese was pretty unremarkable. There is nothing wrong with it, but nothing special either. This is pretty much what we ate from the meal.

Overall, I would definitely not recommend this place. Maybe if you mainly want beer, but also a bite, it wouldn't be too bad.