KRB's Klingers Real Barbeque -Wautoma — Restaurant in Town of Marion

I stopped in because I saw this place on a map and thought I’d give it a try. What a gem! I love finding places like this. I’m guessing many small town folks have no idea that they have a bbq place that could rival any big city joint! The building is perfectly decorated for a bbq place. Lots of parking, a big outdoor space to dine and a cool bar. The smoker is really something to see as well! What an awesome rig! I did a takeout order and before I get into how great the food is, let me say, the staff at KRB knows how to pack food for takeout. The food: I ordered a brisket sandwich. The brisket is perfectly smoked! Perfectly! Thick cuts of meat that falls apart when you try to lift it. Perfect! The flavors of smoke comes thru along with the meat. No sauce! That’s for you to slather on at your whim. Totally how bbq should be! Speaking of sauce there are three. A basic that I could literally drink! It’s sweet and smoky and delicious. A Carolina sauce that is mustard forward and perfectly spiced. And a tangy sauce that is a bit thinner and yes, tangy, but not overly hot/spicy. Would it be wrong to mix all three?! You get one side with the very large portioned sandwich so I ordered three. Lol! Mac n cheese: creamy. I saw a few chunks of cheese and some melty shreds as well. I’m thinking there’s probably more than one kind of cheese in this giant side! Collard greens: tender, vinegary, smoky, a chunk of fat/pork mixed in. OMG! Beans: fantastic! Creamy, smoky, sweet, meaty. Perfect! Was it wrong that I put a scoop of Mac and cheese along with some of the tangy sauce into the last few delicious bites of this ambrosia? I think not! Today is the day after my visit and I can’t stop thinking about getting more KRB. Sadly this place is way out of my way so it’s going to be a special trip when I visit again…and I will! Hands down one of the coolest restaurants I’ve visited and the best...

Do you really really want to hear my review? You could drive nails with the ribs. Brisket was like licking the bottom of a sandbox. Coleslaw must have been fermenting in the refrigrator in a cheap plastic container for months. You could call it American Kim Chi. You could plaster the holes in your wall with Mac-N-Cheese, not to mention it tasted like it just came out of the utters of the cow. All in all, about the food, my toilet thanks you for the meal. No tip needed because the lack of services. The employees stayed at the counter like at a Mcdonalds, so they should say "Are you using our mobile app today?" And when the employees DID come out, they were rushing to get the food to the customer so people couldn't walk up to them to complain. They are probably taking the food out of the trash can and putting it back on the steamer. There's probably enough of it in the trash to do that. Not to mention that the hole in the trash, where you have to dump your garbage food in, is like the hole in a outhouse. Fitting! For the atmosphere, there was bones and napkins on the ground, and i saw no employees coming out of their little safety zone of the counter to clean. Tables were close enough to have dinner with total strangers. There was more room to stand in line than to sit and eat. Drinks are good, but it's hard to mess up a fountain drink. Your website says the outdoor seating is dog friendly, apparently the smoker is too. Shoutout to the high-schoolers workin the job. I could go on and on about how bad this place is, but try...

Heard many, many things about this place for years - Finally made our way there to give it a shot - Being an avid smoker myself, I was looking forward to the reviews I had received and had also read from previous costumers - Looking at the plate itself after we received it, I thought this looks like it’s going to be good! The pulled pork however was honestly one of the worst things I’ve ever tasted when it comes to smoked pulled pork - Extremely salty to say the very least - Even after drenching it in sauce, it was still so salty we couldn’t even fully eat it - We also had the brisket….. This was a complete other story - When I smoke brisket, I want it to bend and fall apart nice and easy - This here, would only literally ‘pull’ apart when you would try to bend and/or cut it apart with a fork and knife - And the only part of it that was somewhat tasty was the smoke ring of the meat as well as the bark….. Everything else had zero flavor to it and it was so extremely dry I needed a vast amount of sauce to even get it down my throat - So in all that, I would, and have definitely NOT recommended anyone to this place - If there was a zero “0” star that I could give for this chow, I most definitely would - On a somewhat better note, the service was somewhat attentive and courteous - Atmosphere was also decent - But for the chow, I would not make this a place for me to ever stop again for any smoked meat or recommend to any of my friends, especially those who are also in the hobby of...