Dixie Pig Bar-B-Q — Restaurant in Oakland Park

I wish I was in Dixie? Y'all will wish you were if'n you come to this place on the hunt down for a Southern style breakfast. The only Southern thing about this place is it's located in South Florida! My better half and I passed this place many a time and kept promising each other we would have to try it one day. We were going out one day, (can't remember whether it was a weekday or not.) and pulled on in about 11:00 in the AM. It is small enough that if you don't know it's exact location on Dixie Highway, you'd blink an eye and pass it on up. When we got to the counter and started eye ballin' the menu for breakfast choices, the lady said breakfast was over. They didn't even have a couple of their 'biscuits' to give us. Since we wanted breakfast, we decided to leave and come on back another time. Last week, (Thursday.) we got on out of the house in enough time to darn well make sure we made it there before breakfast was over. Happy as pigs as slop when we arrived and HUNGRY, we walked on up and was waited on by an older lady. I ordered their sausage biscuit and my fiancee went with their sausage, egg and cheese biscuit which came to just over $10. I didn't see any steak biscuits on the menu so I told the lady they ought to put it on. She was carrying on with a guy named Manny, (who apparently is the owner of this establishment.) but she was just a bit too loud and a little on the obnoxious side to be from any part of the real South fo sho! She did say she was from New York when I asked. We waited a bit at one of the tables. (keep in mind the whole place is a fresh air joint.) When our food was ready to go, we thanked the lady and left. Note to you, Miss: if you want to give a real Southern feel to y'alls place, thank your customers and tell 'em to come on back soon. On to the food we ordered: the biscuits are more like rolls or frozen biscuits as my fiancee remarked. The sausage is barely one step above what McDonald's serves on their menu. The cheese for her sausage, egg and cheese was a straight up slice of American barely melted and the egg was fried brown. Wow! They really have no dag blasted idea of what Southern cookin' is all about when it comes to breakfast biscuits. We can barely imagine what their idea of biscuits and gravy is, let alone BBQ or Pulled Pork. If my Grandpa was still alive, (a real South Carolina Southern gentleman.) God rest his soul, he would've pulled Manny aside and told him "let me git back there and show you how to make them biscuits." I surely do hope this review helps any of our Southern brethren think twice about coming here hopin' to find some Southern food down here in the armpit of the good...

OHSWEETEASTCURRRLINAGOODNESS!!!

Gone are the days where we used to have to pack our luggage and carry-ons with pounds and pounds of defrosting North Carolina, VINEGAR-BASED (I am drooling like a hound dog as I write this) PULLED PORK BARBECUE!!!!!!! Thank goodness we were kids and my dad had six of us to use as “Cue Mules”, I felt a little like Johnny Depp in “Blow” except we were smuggling straight amazingness that we could only get our hands on once a year when we would go to NC from New Mexico to visit my grandparents. (Although we WERE A BIG HIT WITH THE DRUG DOGS...🤦‍♀️ I didn’t know what the dogs were necessarily for at that age, though. I look back now like, “Ohhhhhhhh...”) Enough about my little childhood traumas, risking certain death because we’d be DAMNED if ANY of that barbecue was going into the trash. Most of it had defrosted by the time we got to NM anyway, and we still ate it, and only one of us is dead. Unrelated. But IF YOU HAVE NOT HAD NORTH CAROLINA BARBECUE, you DO NOT HAVE TO GO TO THERAPY AND HAVE DRIPPING VINEGAR PORK PTSD LIKE I DO: you don’t even have to go to NORTH CAROLINA (although you should—it’s beautiful. As is New Mexico. But this isn’t a Geography lesson...THIS IS A LESSON ABOUT HOW TO GET YOUR OWN LIPS TO KISS YOU ON YOUR OWN LIPS.)

What? You’ve never seen that done? Guess you’ve never gone to the Dixie Pig! YOUR LIPS LITERALLY PULL OFF YOUR BEAUTIFUL FACE TO KISS YOUR OWN LIPS. It’s LIKE THAT.

Yes, they have ribs. Yes they have all of the accoutrement you would expect from a BBQ joint. Slaw. Ribs. But here’s something that you DON’T SEE: OKRA. Cooked TO ORDER. Hush puppies so sweet you want to slap your spouse for looking like a jerk next to them. And I tried FRIED PICKLES. FRIED PICKLES?! And no, I am not with child, though I look like Octomom when I leave—and you know what? I LIKED THEM: and I HATE PICKLES! They even have fresh lemonade! Sooooo bomb!

And for the Nawf Currrlina pulled pork VINEGAR BASED PULLED PORK BARBECUE?

Mic drop.🎤 There’s nothing left to say. It’s either DAMN GOOD or it’s not worth mentioning at all.

Be advised: this is an outside restaurant: no frills. So don’t come in a prom dress unless you’re gonna use it as a bib. Rain or shine: But the food is so amazing that I WOULD SIT IN A PROM DRESS IN THE MIDDLE OF IRMA, as long as I had my pulled pork sandwich, extra sauce, piping hot okra, and lemonade.

My regards to the drug...

Think twice before coming here: Dixie Pig BBQ FAILED HEALTH INSPECTION

4495 N. Dixie Highway

Oakland Park

Inspection based on complaint

Ordered shut June 14

14 violations found

"Rodent activity present as evidenced by rodent droppings found. Observed 4 fresh rodent droppings next to trap between true reach in cooler and continental reach in cooler in Wait station. Observed 5 fresh rodent droppings behind soda machine at front counter. Observed 7 fresh rodent droppings under prep table with can opener in kitchen area. Observed 1 fresh rodent dropping on chemical storage shelf next to three compartment sink , 3 fresh rodent droppings next to ice machine by backdoor. Observed 4 dry droppings under 3 compartment sink in kitchen. Observed 2 fresh rodent droppings between ice machine and Samson cooler . Observed 11 fresh rodent droppings on top of Samson reach in cooler and approximately 20 fresh rodent droppings on hoshizaki reach in cooler. Observed Approximately 10 dry rodent droppings rodent droppings found next to Victoria reach."

"Stop Sale issued on potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food due to temperature abuse. Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Flip top cooler at cook line-cut tomatoes, cheese, cut cabbage, potato salad (50-58°F - Cold Holding). Per operator food were placed in unit this morning at 7am. Ambient temperature of unit at 57F. See stop sale. Stop Sale issued due to food not being in a wholesome, sound condition. 1lbs cut onions, 2lbs peppers, 5lbs pickles, 15lbs Cook ribs. Food were surrounded by rat droppings. 4 rat droppings were seen at the edge of flip to cooler at cook line were foods were stored....