Famous Dave's, give me a break!

I don’t believe there is such a thing as “cheating” in cooking. My only concern is if the food tastes good. How you got from point A to B should be irrelevant. I do wonder if using gas will leave an off taste? I would suggest an electric heating element if you don’t have time to tend a real fire.

We don't have any Famous Dave's here in San Antonio.With all the BBQ places around including some of the small towns,I don't know if they would go over big.I think there was one Smokey Bones on Perrin-Beitel,in what used to be a Golden Corral.But now that's gone and it is a mexican restaraunt.
In Cibolo in an old store building is Harmon's BBQ.They smoke over oak or hickory instead of mesquite.
I had the smoked catfish plate one day and it was very good.They opened a place downtown.Since it is family owned and run,the quality is probably fairly well controled.
I don't always like to eat anything mesquite grilled,because it will give me gas.But the Harmon's didn't.

I think the regional focus about BBQ is kind of over. When they started building those highway things and BBQ cooking people from the South got tricked into coming North with stories about whole states with no BBQ so they felt sorry for us, it all started to change. I've had great BBQ from shacks all over the South (and some great ribs from a hardware store about ten miles from Athens, GA. I've eaten at chains like Corky's and Calhouns (I too don't know how many restaurants you need to make a chain but both those places have a few). Around the Boston area we have a bunch of good BBQ places and some really bad ones so I guess we are like everyone else except when we talk. Now if you want really bad Chinese food, Minnesota can't be beat. That's not a slam on Minnesota but I had lunch once at a Chinese restaurant there that served jello and french fries on their all-you-can-eat buffet. There oughta be a law. Fred

Oh, and another thing, Sushi in South Bend is a real big mistake. Trust me on this one. Fred

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Originally posted by fhoran

Oh, and another thing, Sushi in South Bend is a real big mistake. Trust me on this one. Fred

Don't they call it "bait" there?

and I live in Knoxville
have given Famous Daves three times
and it struck out all three times
not a juicy piece of meat on the bone
yet my best friend loves it there...........
so, go figure
we all have different taste buds....
I like my meat very jucy and very tender
fall off the bones, (almost)
linda in Tennessee