Beane Brothers Texas Style BBQ & Catering — Restaurant in Smyrna

Took a much-needed lunch break at Beane Brothers BBQ & Catering today. This was my second time visiting. My first lunch there a couple weeks ago was great, but this time it was NEXT LEVEL amazing, and that's because I have found my new all-time favorite wings!

I am a wing fanatic. I'm not the best at making them, but I am AMAZINGLY good at consuming them. I've been developing that skill my whole life. 🤣 Anywho, I tried two types of wings today - their cajun dry rub on the right, and the hot bbq on the left.

The cajun dry rub was simply astounding. This is the one to get. The hot BBQ was good, but the crisp exterior of the dry rub is exquisite. The skin/fat is perfectly rendered, the meat cooked through perfectly but not dry... it is easily the best wing in Smyrna, and competes at the very top of the list with any other place, too, for that matter. The dry rub itself is a great blend of depth and fullness with herb and spice, and the perfect amount of salt to liven everything up and help the wigs achieve a level of crispness that I've never had in a smoked wing before. I am befuddled, truly. They have a level of crisp to them that many fried wings would be thrilled to attain.

For sauces, they have a regular and a hot BBQ. The hot BBQ is my jam. It won't hurt you, but it does have some actual heat that sneaks up on you a bit after your first bite. It takes about a minute to fully develop into a wonderfully pleasing warmth, and it stays with you for awhile. I found myself saucing about every 3rd bite and that kept me right in my "happy zone" of heat/spice.

No, the meal wasn't cheap. Not much that's good is cheap, especially when it comes to quality, well-prepared food! Beane Brothers BBQ deserves to be in your regular rotation of restaurants. If you haven't been there yet, drop everything and head that way NOW. Fantastic people, great food, and a good time. There aren't many places that put this much effort into high quality, well-executed meals. BBQ like this, especially, is very difficult and time-consuming to prepare. And then holding at proper temps and with the methods necessary to preserve freshness, texture, etc are also a lot of work. These folks are earning every penny and it's an absolute pleasure to enjoy.

I'll...

I pass by this place a few times a week. Knowing that they opened less than a month ago, I've been wanting to try them out. Today was that day!

I went in by myself and ordered too much food because I wanted to try a couple different things.

I ordered the Mac & Cheese Boat with brisket, and they had a special on a "Hot Porker" sandwich with a side. Either one of those should have been enough for me (and I'm a big guy).

The drinks are self-serve, including getting the cup yourself, as are the toppings and sauces. The mild sauce was in normal opaque bottles, but the spicy sauce was in yellow containers. They have a sign up saying it, but it's still disconcerting because we've been trained our whole lives that mustard is in yellow containers. It's not a problem, just something to note.

As for the food..... the food was good!

The "Hot Porker" sandwich was pretty spicy, and overall pretty good. The only recommendation I would make for it would be stiffer buns.

The Mac & Cheese boat was great! The brisket on top was good, and plentiful. As for plentiful.... there was a LOT of mac & cheese!!! This is definitely NOT a bad thing! You definitely get your money worth, unlike some other restaurants. I will definitely be getting this again.

The potato salad wasn't anything to write home about. It tasted to me like store brand. I didn't ask them about it, because it's not a make-or-break thing for me. Just something to note.

As I said before, this place just opened. There are still some learning curves. The menu isn't completed yet (still on pieces of paper) with a sign up saying more things are coming to the menu. The current menu is pretty good, and there were still plenty more things on it that I wanted to try!

If I had to ding them on anything, it would be a small bone I got in my pulled pork sandwich. Since it was small, and only a single bone, I didn't think it was worth bringing up. The staff asked me multiple times how my food was, and I always told them it was good (because it was!). A bone can happen to any bbq place. It happens.

Right now I would expect to spend about $15 per person. I will definitely be...

My husband and I went for lunch during the week. They have done a nice job on the outside decor of the building. The inside felt more like a dive which we liked.

Ordering went fine and it was basically empty inside the restaurant. 2 of the sodas in the soda machine didn’t work.

We each got a two meat/two side platter so we could try multiple things.

I should tell you at this point that we moved here from Austin, Texas so we had high hopes when it was “Texas Style BBQ.”

The brisket lacked flavor and was just okay. The pork ribs were decent and fell off the bone, but felt like they were leftovers that had been warmed up from yesterday. The turkey left a lot to be desired and you could barely taste it. The pulled pork was meh and we actually left most of it on the tray.

We had potato salad (average), smoked corn (no good, tasted like liquid smoke), baked beans (pretty good) and fried okra (standard you get frozen from bag).

Overall, don’t recommend. Go to one of the mainstay places instead to get some good bbq (Martins, Jim n Nicks).

Sad to say because we really...