On Easter Sunday it was lucky to find a place with live music and good food. Even though the event was supposedly sold out and entry at the door was £6+, getting a table reservation 30mins before attending and therefore also skipping the cover charge was brilliant.
The band was a soul group with the coolest Afro-sporting, sunnies-wearing black guy on drums, an exceptional white girl as the main singer, and a host of other white bandmates including an excellent saxophonist.
- Cajun popcorn squid (with sriracha mayo & burnt lime) £7.25 - small morsels but not that exciting;
- BBQ (beef brisket & St. Louis Pork Rib) with fries & coleslaw £15.5 - brisket was remarkably soft and tender with a little cartilage within the slices. Pork ribs were very meaty and quite well cooked but there wasn't much intrinsic flavour. The fries were straight forward, well salted and good. A third meat for the extra £2 is clearly worth the deal (I suppose unless they cut down the serving size of each meat...);
- Wings & Things (buffalo wings, BBQ pork ribs, burnt ends, sweet potato fries, dips & blue corn tortilla chips) £17 - the wings were large with a good spicy and crunchy coating - truly great. The burnt ends were soft and smothered in a sweet wet sauce and a good contrast to the drier and more savoury other meats. Sweet potato fries were not particularly salted but their own flavour therefore came through well. The pork ribs were the same as the BBQ plate except cut into small segments. The corn tortilla chips were fine for something different too.
Next time I would order the buffalo wings, burnt ends and/or brisket with or without the beef rib (although it is £4 extra) and fries. It would be an outstanding meal. However I suppose that means I'd never try any of the other dishes...