06/02/09

over priced....sauce is gross

by frb

Again, we made the mistake of trusting Guy from DDD on this place. We ordered our food for pick up, and were not at all pleased. I ordered a jumbo sausage sandwich, to share with my children...it came with 6 thinly sliced stips of sausage....For $7.99...my kids had all the sausage, and I just ate the roll...the only good thing from the place. They were out of mac and cheese..so we opted for cheesy potatoes...the potatoes we hard, under cooked basically. My husband's coleslaw was warm, he did not eat but one bite. He ordered a two meat combo, and didn't finish any of it.. and my husband can throw back some b-b-q..The sauce tasted like tomato sauce..we had to use sauce we bought from another place. The kids and my husband ended up eating cereal...and to think I spent almost $30...There are far better places to enjoy some real Texas b-b-q.

• Cons: way over priced...nasty tomato...oops...bbq sauce

03/07/09

Great food!

by RangerMateo

I also went to Texas Pride after seeing Guy Fieri's show. I can't complain about the food at all and I think the bad review here was from someone who is used to tasting more spice than meat...which usually means the meat is poor quality and someone is trying to hide that.

I ordered the four meat combo with ribs, sausage, chicken and brisket and it was more food that I could handle. When the server picked up the ribs one of the bones actually slid right out of therack, amazing! The ribs were incredible...not overpowered with rubs or sauce, just a good classic barbeque flavor that you could eat if you didn't have teeth. The brisket, sausage, and chicken were also great, but the ribs were by far the thing that made it worth the drive.

For sides I had pinto beans and cole slaw, the cole slaw was good not great, but the beans again were amazing. They had a flavor in them that I can't place, but that I'd never had in pinto beans (almost like a chipotle smoke?).

All in all, worth the drive and worth what I paid since I'm getting two full meals out of it. Only big critique I had was that the sauces weren't my favorite...one was two sweet and the other (The spicy one) I couldn't quite cage myself to. On the upside, you don't need the sauce...just leave it alone and enjoy the meat with a Lone Star beer.

• Pros: Good food, great place, AWESOME people
• Cons: Kinda weird sauce?

10/06/08

Better BBQ other places

by Sunshine513

My husband & I ate lunch here on 10/4/08. There's plenty of parking & outside seating. However, the inside dining area is small. I saw this place featured on the Food Network's show Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. Therefore, I was expecting the BBQ to be great, but it wasn't. We ordered a combo meal with ribs, turkey, German potato salad and pinto beans. The only positive thing I can say about the meats is they were tender. The turkey was on the dry-side while the rib meat almost fell off the bones. However, both lacked in flavor (we didn't taste any seasoning) and were a BIG disappointment to us. To be honest, my hubby does much better BBQ at home. Their BBQ sauce isn't anything special. The German potato salad was really good. But this was our very first time to have any, so we can't compare theirs to others. The pinto beans were seasoned well and tasted great to us. We found the portion sizes of everything to be small. Therefore, we did NOT got our money's worth. This is a family restaurant, which has been passed down to future generations. With the decor (inside and out), coming here was like going way back in time. The history and nostalgia of this place is cool. However, their BBQ itself should be more the focal point here. My hubby & I were both born and raised in Texas, so we know good BBQ and this AIN'T it! We don't plan on ever going back.

• Pros: Nostalgia, parking
• Cons: Meats lack flavor