Dutchess Sports Bar & BBQ — Restaurant in Town of Wappinger

I did not have a good experience here. My wife and I walked in and it was open mic night. That should have been my cue to turn around and walk back out. I understand that local musicians sometimes enjoy open mics, but I do not want to take part, and I certainly don't want to hear amateur hour while trying to enjoy dinner. We decided to give it a shot anyway and the night didn't get much better. Let's start with appetizers... well, I would have liked to start with them, but our server forgot to put in the order, and when our food came out and I asked, she lied and said they were still cooking. Let's move on to our entrées. My wife got the brisket sandwich with fries and she enjoyed her meal. I got the ribs with baked beans and onion rings. The menu did specify "rings" and I realize that 2 1/2 does qualify as plural, but not exactly what I was expecting. The baked beans were fine. The ribs were fairly dry and under sauced. I was given extra sauce, but there should have been a lot more cooked on to the ribs. If I wanted to dunk meat nuggets, I would have gone to McDonald's. After we finished our meal, our appetizer wings finally arrived. (Dessert wings???) They were again a little dry, but not too bad. At that point, the house drummer had beaten my head into an ache that wasn't going to go away so we left and went to Ready Coffee to wash the taste of bad BBQ out...

So on my adventure of trying new places I came across this place to share with all, so let's start off with we ordered the ultimate sampler that had some wings and shrimp as well as ribs it wasn't bad I asked for the wing flavor to be garlic parm but was more like a Italian dressing but wasn't to bad, then I ordered there brisket when I got the mashed potato they where piping hot like they came out the microwave but where not to bad as I went to try the brisket and it was terrible it was old so I asked the waitress how old it was and was told that they made it the night before but was frozen and as you can see in picture this was older then the night before I go to other places and when the brisket comes out it pink with a nice smoke ring, on the other plate we got there pulled pork and the same it did not taste good at all and seemed to be old as well, if you look at the pictures you can see how they looked, I probably will not...

We placed a to go order for our family of 4, and was not impressed. Prices were typical for a bbq place (roughly $90 with tip). I am particular about food and bbq in particular, and got nervous when the person we ordered from could not tell me if the sauce was tomato or vinegar based and the visit went downhill from there. The service was fine. The brisket (reminiscent of arbys roast beef in flavor) and pulled pork sandwiches both went unfinished, the rack of ribs as noted elsewhere are served cut apart and did not seem to be recently made. There is literally zero smoke to any of the food and the sauce noted earlier is sweet and unremarkable. The side dishes were fine, the baked beans were the highlight of the meal and were a solid 3 of 5 stars, but the only thing that was actually finished were the 2 small sides of coleslaw (I don’t eat mayo so cannot directly comment on it.) Overall we were very...