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  • Takes Reservation
  • Has TV
  • WiFi
  • Smoking
  • Outdoor Seating

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    This review is based totally on 1 limited experience. I picked up burgers to go. So, that is the extent of my personal knowledge here.
    The decor is really nice, looks like a great place to listen to music.
    The staff was friendly and interested in making me feel comfortable even though I was only placing a to go order.
    The burgers- YUCK! a HUGE dissapointment. A bland meat patty obviously cooked with zero seasonings at all, totally tasteless. The buns were soggy. The sides were pretty ordinary (onion rings were the exception, they were good)
    for a $9 burger, this ine comes up short.
    I will absolutely give Roosters another shot, but will be there for live music...

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    Smoke.

    That was my initial sensation upon taking my first bite of Rooster's barbecue. Now, it's a bold move to open up a joint that serves 'cue in Tuscaloosa, or just a down right blind one. With all the great 'cue in this town you better have something special or you won't last.

    Now Rooster's doesn't only claim to have barbecue. And they don't. Their menu is littered with ever genre of southern food. Fish, chicken, pork, steak, burgers, and...all-day breakfast...until 3 a.m. So it's like breakfast till breakfast.

    Rooster's nailed it with their location. My party and I arrived as the sun was setting, and the blue fluorescent sign of a rooster glowed like a beacon in the dimming light. It was a Friday night, and to my surprise, it was not packed. A new start-up joint in T-Town on a Game Day weekend, and there's not a line? I was slightly concerned.

    I was wrong. We were just early. How often I forget how late people eat around here. What time do y'all eat lunch? 2:30?

    We were told we could "sit anywhere", kind of like Carmelo. It was empty enough to pull together a few tables to accommodate our party.

    Now what I really was going for was the blues. That's the seller right there. No other place in Tuscaloosa offers barbecue and blues. That hits Southern right on the freakin' head. But to my dismay, we were too early. The second time our early-bird-gets-the-worm-mentality failed us. At most places and in most circumstances it's a good thing to be early. But punctuality here means 9:30. By then I'm starved to death, and getting ready for bed.

    The dim lighting was off-putting at first because I could barely read the menu, which was doubly troubling because of its vastness. It took twice as long to read the long menu as it normally would have because of the low light settings. There.

    I was torn on what to choose because their southern food items look so tantalizingly tasty. Deciding not to empty the wallet on the $19 Shirmp 'n Grits, I decided on the BBQ Plate: pulled pork, two sides, and garlic toast for $10.

    To say it took forever to get our food would be a lie. It took longer. But I abated my growling stomach, and enjoyed the moody, bluesy atmosphere (the blues coming from a radio, not a live performance).

    The plate finally arrived, red-checkered paper, plastic-grated basket, the quintessential BBQ plate. Everything had its place. The pork was cubbied away in the top right corner; the mac 'n cheese over in the left corner; the grits at the bottom; and the toast at the top. There was a chasm in the center, at which I couldn't help but wonder "where the heart of this plate was". It's central body vacant. This is the effect of only one dilemma:

    Small-portioned sides.

    Our town is plagued by this contagious disease. And it is spreading rapidly. What ever happened to Southern Generosity? Archibald's is stricken with it; Dreamland is woken from their dream by it; Carmelo is coughing and gasping for life because they too have nearly caught it--but at least they have unending cornbread. The BBQ (or main dish) may be the body to the meal, but the sides are the supporting organs that give it life. Without these sides it would be a lifeless pile of meat, lonely and unsatisfying. These weak sides so prevalent in our city today are breaking the backbone of our food culture with their inability to support such ravenous appetites.

    I had to pace myself so as to not run out of mac 'n cheese before I came to the near end of my pork. This was a difficult task because of the succulent, creamy, cheesy, nostalgic goodness of this side item. I order mac 'n cheese (if it's made-in-house) nearly everywhere I go. Just to have something to compare restaurants with. I do this also with baked beans. But seeing them not on the menu, and the grits being too mouth-watering (just by reading it) to pass up, I did not order them.
    All this to say, I have had many side dishes of mac 'n cheese. Archibald's was my previous #1 spot for Tuscaloosa. It now is second to Rooster's. Congratulations. That is a feat not easy won, and a title not lightly given.  

    The grits. Oh, the grits. My knees go weak at the sight of "cheese grits" on a menu. My mouth commences to salivate, my hands shake, I smile, and thank the heavens for their blessed mercy on us mere mortals for giving us a small taste of the ambrosia they are so blessed to eat every day. Not only were these grits "cheese grits", they were "jalapeno Cheese Grits". That's it. Call in the Food Police. We have unrestaurant-like conduct on Rooster's for serving things never seen in Tuscaloosa before. They were thick. Man, were they thick. Like how grits should be. Not runny or watery, but thick like porridge; and they were so cheesy. Whatever kind of cheese they use here, I want to know. Just when I thought it was in cheesy dreamland, the jalapenos kicked it in the mouth. These are unlike anything in town.

    I have more to say, but the word count is 5001, which is coming right abou

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