Portions are small for the price. Â The sides are maybe 2 fl oz. Â Friend's brisket was sliced, small portion and loaded with fat. Â The mash potatoes were like soup. Â Food was decent, not the best or worse BBQ. Â My son's kid pulled pork sandwich was decent portion and price. Â He also had a chocolate shake that was tasty. Â Lesson learned, don't eat at places on main drag.
Review Source:This is a great barbeque restaurant just by itself. Heck, it makes my mouth water just driving by and smelling the wood smoke! Â But then you have to add in the bakery with all those incredible cakes and pies. Â It's hard to choose a single slice, you lie to the waitress, taking home four other slices for "your family" ... when in reality they are all for you!
A special service offered during the holidays is that if you bring them a turkey, goose, ham, etc. Â They will smoke it for you for $10.00. Â Way delicious ... and you don't have to cook ir yourself. Â Ask for Mike.
Many reviewers have commented that the pulled pork is dry and I would agree. Â Even though I covered it in very good BBQ sauce, it still seemed very dry and lacking any natural juices. Â I don't know if the leave it under the heat lamps too long after chopping it or if they trim too much fat off before cooking.
The Brunswick stew also seemed watery and rather tasteless for my preferences.
But the service was excellent and friendly right from the beginning - a real family place. Â And the food was served up very quickly.
But I don't think I'll go back.
We stopped here on the way home from a NC trip. A 2 star is perfect for this place. I had the pork plate with slaw and brunswick stew. Â The pork could have had a more smokey flavor and it was a very dry piece of meat.
The brunswick stew was the best part of the meal. The worst part of the meal was the cornbread or should I call it cornbread muffin. The only thing it was missing was icing and you could have called it a cake. What is so bad the waitress said it was the best. She must not have been from the south because the best kind of cornbread is without sugar and without and an egg in it.
They must be doing something right because by the time I left there was a 45 minute wait to be seated.
They do have a bakery on the property but I did not try any of the sweets!
In echo of other Yelp reviewers, my synopsis of the BBQ meats served by Mickey Pigg's can only be described by one word....DRY; my three meat combo plate of Riblets (gnaw off the bone), Pulled Pork (very lean and very dry with NO offensive material), and Chicken (grilled, semi sliced, boneless breast ) where all overly dry! Each meat did carry a hearty smoked flavor but each bite proceeded to empty the mouth of any remnant of moisture; it was like sucking on a dry sponge! Despite the drowning of each meat with a mixture of the two very tasty tomato based sauces (medium and hot mixed was best to me) the meats remained overly dry in texture (I emptied three glasses of drink in no time flat!). In addition to the meats being dry, they where served barely warm
The fries in my two side choice where nicely proportioned, fresh, served HOT, and tasted very good with the seasoned salt on them, but the tiny plastic cup of BBQ beans (the serving size good for a taster only) where barely luke warm and so subtly flavored that most quality store canned versions could beat them.
Decorum was very clean and nicely decorated and the staff where extremely friendly and efficient; my drink glass remained full at all times despite my constant draining!
In closing, I'll state that Mickey Pigg's meat proportioning is gargantuan (it was a lot of meat) and easily a monetary bargain in comparison to many other establishments (the three meat, two side combo plate was $11.99), but not a culinary delight as very dry meat kills the monetary bargain (major points lost in my book). The two sauces where very good (points awarded) but sadly couldn't overcome the dryness of the meats. Additional points lost for the minuscule bean serving; c'mon guys, beans are cheap! Majority of points awarded for the nice proportion of fresh, tasty fries as well as to the fast and friendly service! Didn't have time to try the deserts.
Overall a 2 star out of 5 in my BBQ book.
This is a great bbq place! If your hungry then you need to visit! The portions of food are huge! I tried the sampler platter, which included ribs, bbq pulled pork, and brunswick stew. The bbq is pretty good but the pulled pork sandwich is as big as your head! Â No joke! They have an assortment of sauces and all were very tasty! I was very impressed with the ribs because they were cooked perfectly. Â I wasn't a big fan of the brunswick stew. It was a little on the chunky side for me but still good. Â This place has a little of everything and you will never leave hungry! Also try out the homemade desserts!
Review Source:I tried Mickey Pigg's for the first time with a take out order last night. I'm going with 3-stars rather than 2 because I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt on their pulled pork, which was extremely dry (about as bad as I've ever had). Â I have to believe what I got was not the norm.
By itself, I would give the pork I had a 1 out of 5 stars...however, the ribs were very good. Â Very nicely smoked and meaty, although a little on the dry side themselves. Â
The Brunswick stew was OK - not bad, but bland for my taste and definitely in need of some hot sauce. Â The baked beans were outstanding - a very unique flavor that I was definitely a fan of. Â
The cornbread was very good - ironically, the problem with corn bread in many places is that it's too try, but unlike their meat, the corn bread was not dry here. Â
The serving size was enormous - unfortunately, given the dryness of the meat, it definitely needed sauce, and they only gave me one tiny container of sauce - about 1/4 of the amount of sauce I would have needed for all the meat in the order. Â The sauce was good, but not stand-out.
Love it!
-Super bakery and desserts
-Staff is friendly and up beat
-Prices are little higher than norm for BBQ
-Meat is very very good no fat and ribs are great also
-Sauces are great, hot will kill you! Sweet calms down the hot - but they do need to be mixed
-Fast service
-Clean yes! Very clean!
-Side dishes are good too!
Love this place...great job:D
Mickey Piggs BBQ
We had a Tweet Up yesterday up at Yonah Mountain Vineyards - on the way home some of us decided to stop at Mickey Piggs and have an early dinner.
I have eaten here before and it was always good, this time was no exception. Â I'm not all that crazy about the brunswick stew (most of the people in our group loved it) but I had some ribs and bbq pork and it was really good.
Prices are reasonable, service was good - but one of the big highlights is the selection of homemade deserts - I exercised some discipline and left without anything. Â Regretted that later.
Good place to eat some bbq.
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