Original Roadhouse Grill

Good Lord Avoid At All Costs!!

That's really all you need to read.  Really, just back slowly away from the sticky front doors (a good first indication of the disgustingness that lies inside).

Check my profile:  I give very few 1-star reviews.  Less than 4%.

Start your engines....

We are from out of town and yelped BBQ searching for some good eats.  We came across a place with a lot of 4 and 5 star reviews and followed the directions there.  Sadly, it was closed.  Nearby was this steaming heap of a restaurant.

You'd think a yelper would Yelp!  Nope, we just went in without me looking at the ratings.  After reading them, I can tell people are trying to be kind for some reason.

The dreaded 3 D's describe this place:  Dark, Dank & Dingy.  I made the mistake of using the restroom before sitting down.  Good Lord it stunk to high heaven.  Like raw sewage.  Absolutely horrible.  No paper towels to dry my hands with and the floor was disgusting and the bathroom walls were tattoo'd with graffiti.

Management must treat the help (all ladies serving) like absolute crap as this could be the only explanation for having every single one of them be so unpleasant.  Either that or they're forced to eat the food and use the restrooms!

If you're wanting a decent, reasonably priced steak, this is not your destination.  However, there's an Applebee's right next door and I know they serve decent steaks.  The BBQ here at the ORG is smothered in the sweetest BBQ Sauce I've ever had.  Might as well cover your meat with Maple Syrup and ketchup.  Serious.

The pulled pork and tri-tip were so buried in sauce I cannot possibly even give either of them a review.  I couldn't taste them.  In fact, they could very well have been the exact same meat for all I know.  No way to distinguish the two apart.

SLOW!!  And I mean, at lunch during the week adjacent to a VERY busy mall, and still nobody is here.  Why didn't we run!?!  Also SLOW... as in... "Where's my iced tea, my menu, some water, bread.... hello, anyone home"???

I can't even begin to imagine how disgusting the kitchen is.

Quentin Tarantino would have the perfect set for his not-yet-written movie script "Sticky Shoe'd Waitresses".

I am passing on a review from my mom and dad (in-laws), since they don't yet yelp.....I am trying to convert them to yelp-ism. They are resisting *sigh*....so they said they wanted somewhere in the Gateway area to eat a late lunch. They walked into The Roadhouse Grill, no one helped them for quite some time. They said they noticed the food was primarily under the heat-lamp, while many sat waiting for their food. After waiting for someone to tend to their needs, they happily moved on to another restaurant that was busy but more organized. Good call!

I was seated and helped right away. The waitress was very nice. I ordered the salmon, bake potato and the garlic green beans for lunch. You can have the salmon with a BBQ sauce or not. I had them put the BBQ sauce on the side so I could try it. The food came hot and tasty. The fish was a little over cooked but was still good. Adding the sauce was a big plus. The green beans were too salty for me but went well with the baked potato. Overall a good meal not great.  A little pricey for a lunch but what do you expect ordering salmon.  :)
Oh ya, the rolls......very bad for you, but oh so good.