Hook's BBQ — Restaurant in Troy

My favorite restaurant in Troy Alabama I ate alot of food here solo when I had my money I lovejust the Ribs only I don't eat anything else from there and I just by according to my money and that just it Hurricane Opal hit in 1995 and all these apartments where bad I didn't cook keep my same clothes day and night it snowed here and it was bad weather and I slept I'm I love the fact sleep in is a blessing I keep my doors locked and pray I don't get up the best restaurant in town I love the excellent customer service always go through drive through and I love the fact its going to snow again probably everyone stay in stay dressed and God Bless the USA 🇺🇸 it's going to snow again and please be safe the weather is so bad just clean your apartment get rest the high rises and apartments every where is bad Autumn Ridge in Troy Alabama and Charleston Square and Skyview and East Way Heights based on your income my sister Schemillia Lavera Fenn brought a house om 207 Smart Road Troy Alabama 36079. her and Her family I never knew she purchased a house her and Cornelius Samuel Green from Goshen Alabama I sleep all day she said she had to make sure she get some sleep I don't know where they stay I am at 650 Henderson Drive Apt A6 Troy Alabama Foxcroft Apartments 36081 the snowwas bad and aHurricane Opal was a beast 4.7 billion dollars in damage and alot of bad weather just sleep in and don't get up it's bad every where and please take cover u changed my locks on my apartment doors and mailbox key and locked myself in my apartment and clened my apartment spotless and took my trash out and prayed it snow all winter and get rest and dont get up the wearher going to be real bad sgettorm going to a beast weather is so dangerous it's not safe to travel and go to restuarants tornado a real bad keep safe and sleep dont get up to go nowhere the snow is bad and the cars are really bad weather the weather un each state so just take cover and dont cook and drink water if you water on in yor apartmnt the people with houses you have a blessing to stay in stay safe and take cover its bad and yall take care and please dont drive at night take cover it going bad weather if you just sleep through bad weather snow is really cold and stay in the weathe said dont travel and sleep peacefully...don't get period the snow is bad the eather is bad no funerap in bad weather you you just sand just close troy regional Hosipal the stoems aare serious rhe weather is dangerous and please stay in and dont get up during bad weather dont light cal candlesand stay sleep atake cover and dont watch...

I stopped in for what I thought was going to be a great BBQ meal. It was about 2:30 PM on a rainy Tuesday afternoon.

After being seated for a few minutes, I discovered that you order from the counter and your food is subsequently delivered to your table. I figured this out after being ignored by the staff and ultimately asking for someone to take my order.

I went to the counter and ordered the pulled pork, cole slaw, and baked beans. I was asked for my preference of mild or hot BBQ sauce. I chose the hot. I assumed the BBQ sauce would be served on the side so the customer could add it to satisfy their individual taste.

The meal was delivered to the table in pretty short order in a styrofoam to-go box. I told the waitress I was dining in and was informed that it didn't matter, that's the only way they served their food. Okay, no big deal.

I opened the to-go box and found a surprise. There was a huge piece of pound cake right on the top. There was a wax paper barrier between the cake, bread, and and the meal,

On removing the wax paper, I saw what appeared to be a great meal.

I tried the cole slaw first. It was like eating sugar straight out of a bowl. One bite was wall it took. It was easy to sweet.

Okay, the baked beans had to be good. Wrong. While not awful, they were very bland, straight-out-of-the-can baked beans. Nothing added to spruce them up at all. That's okay. Not what I expected from a BBQ restaurant, but they were edible.

Then the meat. It was saturated in BBQ sauce. I believe the meat would have been much better had the sauce been served on the side. I tried a few bites of the meat and finally just stopped. It was drenched in so much BBQ sauce that I couldn't taste the meat.

I digress. I am a carnivore. I can make a meal out of meat alone. I consider sides to be unnecessary elements of a meal to enhance the requirements for what the USDA considers to be a square meal.

Back to the pound cake. The pound cake was quite possibly one of the best I have ever tasted. It appeared to be homemade and it was fantastic.

As far the overall meal is concerned, the servings were ample and would satisfy the heartiest af appetites. The rest, as stated above, left a lot to be desired.

That pretty well sums up my experience at Hooks BBQ. I'll probably try another...

The building is exactly what you'd expect from a BBQ place. Booths along the wall with tables occupying the space away from the walls. Self serve fountain drinks and tea (sweet and non-sweetened - "unsweet" implies normal tea is inherently sweet, but the "unsweet" batch has had the sweetness removed). You can also grab plasticware, straws, napkins, ketchup, and other normal things; however, you can't get your own BBQ sauce to my knowledge, although I may have just completely missed it. No complaints, although I'd like to be able to add more BBQ sauce to whatever I want, but that's not significant enough for me to call it a complaint. Service was fine. No complaints there, either. I didn't go over the menu much because I knew what I wanted (I love pulled pork sandwiches, but pulled pork wasn't an option; instead, the similar chopped pork is available). I ordered the regular chopped pork sandwich with hot sauce, slaw, beans, and a regular drink. I think the total was $7-something, and it was plenty of food for me, although I don't have a huge appetite. The food arrived sooner than I had expected in a carry-out style styrofoam box. I liked that idea, because if I suddenly have to turn my dine-in experience into a carry-out, I just get up and walk out. The sandwich had plenty of pork on it, and the two compartments in for sides were full with beans and slaw. I was not disappointed by the portions. The food was of good quality. The bun wasn't squished or soggy. The food was nice and warm. The sandwich was good. Not great, but not bad. I've definitely had better. It wasn't as flavorful as I was hoping, and the hot sauce wasn't hot at all. I don't know if there wasn't enough on the sandwich, or if the sauce just isn't very flavorful, but the sandwich just didn't have much BBQ flavor (hence the reason I want to have the option to add more BBQ sauce). It was mostly just a pork-and-bread flavor. The slaw was good, as well as the beans. I drank sweet tea, and I thought it was good. It's not uncommon for a place to completely botch the tea, but that wasn't a problem here. Overall, not bad, but my search for my new favorite BBQ place continues. I recently moved here, and the place I used to live had an amazing BBQ place, so I'm hunting for a...