Myself and a friend have just returned from here. We both run GMG Daniel Boone's and he's planning on setting up a BBQ restaurant. He's been to Texas and checked out the Salt Lick among many other BBQ joints and we thought we'd visit Reds to do some R&D and see what the competition was like.
It wasn't good.
We ordered pulled pork, brisket, slaw, cornbread and a bucket of bones (baby backs, spares, beef ribs and rib ends). We also had bbq beans, garlic toast, sweet potatoe fries, skin on fries, mac and cheese, 'soon to be legendary' onion rings......etc.
Everything was dry, tasteless and under seasoned. If i'd have cooked pork ribs like we had tonight I'd have classed them as a failure and tossed them in the bin. They were tough, dry and tasteless.
The beef ribs were OK but a long way from excellent. The rice dish was complete rank mush. More like risotto. The pulled pork and brisket was very dry and tasteless. Nothing had any hint of smoke flavour to it. You couldn't smell any smoke in the restaurant. The BBQ beans were just Heinz baked beans with some bacon and kidney beans added. The 'soon to be legendary' onion rings were massively average. The hot sauce wasn't hot at all and didn't really have any flavour to it. There was a mustard based sauce which was basically Frenchies mustard. There was a Kansas sauce which tasted like watered down HP brown sauce.
The service was pretty poor.......the girl who served us was ok but she was let down by the bar as we constantly had to remind them we'd ordered drinks.
The cornbread was pretty good and the vanilla ice cream was good but this wasn't made by them.
Also I'm sat here typing this and my clothes stink of rank, burnt grease......not lovely hickory smoke!
From reading the reviews on google it appears the general public (who must have no experience of good, low and slow BBQ) seem to like it. As a BBQ fan who cooks brisket and ribs every week it was bad.....really bad! Save your money and go to KFC.
We paid the bill, left a small tip but wouldn't go again.