St George's Bbq & Catering Inc

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  Ate here again yesterday, after a while away. Over the last couple years, St. George has improved his menu considerably, and added daily specials. He's also open 'til 6 Thursday and Friday, 'til 5 most other days, and closed on Sunday.
  
  Most of the time I've eaten here I've had the barbecue brisket sandwich, because, well, I like brisket a lot. (Beef *is* "real food for real people," after all.) But yesterday he had a pulled pork sandwich and fries on special, so I decided to try "the other white meat".
  
  St. George's sandwiches are good. He does use store-bought buns, but they're decent ones with a lot of body to them, and there's always more meat than will stay in the sandwich. The barbecue sauce was good, too (I just used the spicy version). I have no complaints whatsoever about the pulled pork, and would order it again.
  
  This was also the first time I'd had his french fries, and they were everything that I could ever hope for a french fry to be: served hot and fresh and done to a turn.
  
  It also bears mentioning that St. George's has a wifi hotspot, though his Internet for it was down at the time I ate there (St. George said he's getting it back up again in the near future).
  
  I have perhaps been lucky in that most of the times I've gone to eat there have been the late afternoon, when not many people are around. It may well get a little crowded at the top of the lunch hour. But the barbecue is just as good if you get it to go!

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  Posted on 06.22.10 Chris M.

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  I've been wanting to try this place precisely because it is fairly difficult to get BBQ here. Now, it looks like they are open from 11-1. But I suggest calling ahead and placing an order because sitting at one of the three tables in the joint gets a little awkward as you quickly exhaust the "vintage" appointments that still hold in this place. I'm all for cozy little joints, but I really don't think you get a nice BBQ ambiance like other places here. There isn't that nice smokey smell that grabs and holds you in like other BBQ holes, nor is there any blues playing etc. This is a grab and go type place. But, to me, that requires one thing: trust. You have to trust your food is good when you take it home. Otherwise, it would be a bit odd to scrutinize your food in front of the owner, like you would at McDonalds without really thinking about it. However, I should have done that.
  
  We ordered a rib dinner meal, which was the special for $6.99, and then a pork sandwich and fries. Initially it seemed like a good deal, but for how my ribs turned out, it was not anywhere near good. Once we got it in the car we got a nice, strong smokey smell that teased us all the way home.
  I'll start with the good...The pork sandwich had toasted sesame seed hamburger buns, which I'm glad was toasted, because if not...well, those buns are usually rough on BBQ. The actual pork was smokey, but  a little bit dry. We needed some sauce to make it moist. Their normal sauce reminds of the sauce that the mobile BBQ thing that sits outside K-Mart in the summer uses, but not as spicy (I didn't try the spicy sauce). Their beans are quite good and were the best part of the meal. They are smokey, have some shredded pork and non-carmalized onions, which I actually do like. The fries were OK, but I really don't care for the size of fries just above shoe-strings.
  The source of my discontent and seemingly harsh rating of 2 stars is the ribs. First of all and most important, is that my ribs were horribly overcooked. The dry rubbed crust was more like jerky than anything resembling a burnt-end or crust. It was a shell, and a dry shell at that, but not a shell that separates from the delicious meat underneath. Once bitten into, it becomes a struggle to wrench free anything worth eating. What little meat there was on the ribs was crusty and drained of all life. The bones were very unhealthy looking, being completely stripped of all their once tasty juices. its kind of difficult to make out the dryness of the meat on these ribs in the pic I'm adding, but you can see how dark the bones are. I ended up having to soak some of the bits of meat that were edible in the sauce for a little bit in order to infuse some moisture. Good dry rub ribs should not need to be SOAKED in order to be enjoyed. I believe that these were left over ribs from some big batch that need to go quickly, so they were made a special, and most likely reheated-maybe more than once. Unfortunately, I was already home so I couldn't exchange the ribs for anything. Had I been at the shop, no prob....so I was left to sit in my discontent, and still do so. See the picture I've uploaded for my evidence. I'm hoping (?) this is a fluke in St. George's rib production, but I will not go back and try another rib platter. They claim to have thick sliced brisket, which I love, but I'll have to be persuaded by some body, perhaps a free meal. They also do sausage and chicken and some neat sides like pasta salad and regular salads, as well as a wrap.
  
  So although 2 stars may seem harsh on the surface, my ribs were so damn bad that they warranted a drive through 6" of snow back to the restaurant for something else. Instead, I'm complaining on the internet. I know the pork is safe, as well as the beans. I would like to try the Onion Rings as they supposedly make them there, but because of the rib fiasco, I will not seek out St. George's for lunch.

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  Posted on 01.30.10 Doug R.

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  Excellent food and a good value for the quality of food you receive. Just wish the hours were extended...

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  Posted on 09.11.09 Donovan B.

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  One of the best deals in town on when it comes to catering. Make sure you ask for the baby potatoes, they'll be a big hit.
  
  The only reason why I'm rating this as 4 instead of a 5 is that it's practically impossible to get a hold them on the phone - you have to go to them in person and their hours are wacky and don't work for those of us who don't work nearby.

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  Posted on 11.25.08 Carolynn E.

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