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Address: 207 W Broadway, Ashland, MO 65010
Phone: (573) 488-0227
Website: http://trailbossbbq.com/
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Chicken, smoked wings, and pulled pork were fantastic. Ribs pulled of a little easier than I like, but were still tender. Brisket is probably where they stumbled the most. It had a good smoke ring, but no bark and was mostly shreds instead of slices. Sides were great.
Waitress was very polite, quick, and very patient with my 10 year old’s questions. Owner came out and asked how everything was and thanked us for coming out.
Was cozy and clean inside. Parking lot seems to be going under construction and was a little tricky to navigate. Food was worth it though.
1) The order was to go, I waited inside until I received my order and began eating within 5 minutes so everything was “fresh”.
2) On the coleslaw; do you chop the cabbage and create your own dressing? If so its very similar to others as was the okra, I actually said both were above average so good review.
3)The brisket; I eat at BBQ restaurants a LOT, I can only recall one other time where the brisket was pre-sliced, I see no reason why brisket can’t be cut to order, even chain restaurants cut it to order. (Billy Sims, Rib Crib, etc.) The picture shows there’s no bark on the brisket, yes there’s a good smoke ring so it was smoked but maybe cutting beforehand and resting it in its own broth robbed it of the flavor. If others like it great for you and your place but when compared to others I’ve had I found it average thus the 3 star rating.
Struggling with this review, I really wanted to love this place. The staff were extremely nice and helpful. The food was a letdown however. The slaw is scoop and serve so not made in house and the okra was frozen so not their recipe either; both were above average but nothing special. The brisket was just okay. There was only a hint of smokiness to it. It was moist but brisket gets a lot of it’s taste from fat and the rub/bark and it had little of either. You can see from the picture that some of the meat had turned brown; I’m wondering if the meat was sliced in advance and set aside in a broth to keep. Something seems to have happened to rob the beef of flavor.
The atmosphere was good and clean, the wait staff and the management were clean and very friendly, although the waiter had long hair that wasn’t tied back, SMH. The pulled pork sandwiches we had were good, but the fried okra had absolutely no taste at all. The appearance of the dishes were very nice.
The utensils were plastic and came wrapped in a very thin small napkin in a plastic wrap with a small single serving packet of salt and pepper, the kind you would get if you were getting take out, We Dined In, so I was expecting actual silverware, seeing the utensils were plastic, that, made my decision for me on which item to order off the menu, because I couldn’t see trying to cut up a BBQ pork steak with a plastic knife and fork unless they were EXTREMELY TENDER, I didn’t want to take that chance. They didn’t offer us any additional salt and pepper or napkins I had to request them. The table were bare.
When I saw them wheel in the meat from outside without any covering we almost got up and walked out. Even though it was a short distance bird’s do fly over, YUCK
I don’t think we will be going back, it was a 30 minute drive from our house but it came highly recommended so we thought that we would give it a try, I’m so sorry.
Food was bomb. You could tell the server was in High School and doing a great job. Dude is working, happy for him.
Food was much better than expected and fast.
10/10