1151 E. Davis

Mesquite  75149

Rapid Dose:

Short and quick:  if you are looking for some good, tasty BBQ… go somewhere else.

Review:

I was really looking forward to doing this review; after all, I always smell the wonderful smoky aroma coming from the Wood Pit Bar-B-Que.  I was so excited; I was even to prepared to dote on this restaurant because they have two parking spots designated especially for motorcycles.  (I have not even ever been on a motorcycle before, and I was fired up to tell you of these parking spots!)  Even walking into the establishment, I was ready to tell you how clean and well presented this walk up and order restaurant was.  In fact, I was so worked up… I almost missed just how poor Wood Pit Bar-B-Que really is.

Let me take a step back… it is not horrible.  The food was fairly average.  The service was VERY slow.  We were the only people waiting inside, yet we had to wait a good seven minutes to pay for our food after we ordered.  Then, after we paid, we finally got our food and the order was not even completely correct.  I had ordered a turkey sandwich – I got brisket.  (At this point, I was still in the honeymoon stage.  I did not want to upset the mother type figure who was serving us so I stuck with the brisket.)

My daughter got a sausage sandwich (which she liked), macaroni and cheese (which she did not like) and potato salad (which she loved).  My son got a rib sandwich.  Please allow me to explain what this rib sandwich consisted of… two thick pieces of toast with ribs thrown in the middle.  Bones and all.  His favorite part of his meal was the toast.  And as for my brisket sandwich?  I ended up taking off all the meat, cutting off the fat and cutting out the blood vessels.  I also got scalloped potatoes, which were greasy, and the bacon in the scalloped potatoes consisted of they chewy, fatty pieces.  Yuck!

We all left with a good portion of food on our plates; and that just does not happen with us – we normally are pretty good about finishing the food that we buy.  Not at this place though!  In fact, if we did not care about our health, after we left the Wood Pit Bar-B-Que, we would have gone to McDonald’s to get something to fill us up and satisfy our appetite.

I give Wood Pit Bar-B-Que 4 out of 10 points.  Don’t bother going.  Stick to something you know.