re: City Pork...give me your thoughts!

Posted by tigersfirst

Baton Rouge

Member since Apr 2013

1064 posts

Posted on 10/22/14 at 2:03 pm to rutiger

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There are much better places for sandwiches in BR that are significantly cheaper.

Such as?

Anthony's, Dang's (for Banh Mi), DiGuilios, Roccos...

Magpie (not cheap but substantially better quality)

Posted by rutiger

purgatory

Member since Jun 2007

21128 posts

Posted on 10/22/14 at 2:33 pm to tigersfirst

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Posted by tigersfirst quote: quote: There are much better places for sandwiches in BR that are significantly cheaper. Such as? Anthony's, Dang's (for Banh Mi), DiGuilios, Roccos... Magpie (not cheap but substantially better quality)

Roccos is awful.

The rest are great, but none of those places offer anything like city pork does.

Posted by broadhead

Member since Oct 2014

2111 posts

Posted on 10/22/14 at 5:44 pm to rutiger

This thread finally made me create an account on TD.

We had been really looking forward to trying this place and made it in over the weekend. Talk about totally underwhelming! The pull pork was dry, over cooked and had no flavor at all. The bun was pretty plain. Nothing impressed about the food at all. It was a one and done trip, not going back for any reason. We are a family of four, but one order was from the kids menu and the total with drinks was over 45 dollars. It was too expensive for what it is.

Service was crap too, no one asked how the food was or if we needed anything.

I know they are trying to be cochon butcher but it's bad. Real bad.

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Posted by REG861

Ocelot, Iowa

Member since Oct 2011

36423 posts

Posted on 10/22/14 at 5:50 pm to broadhead

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We had been really looking forward to trying this place and made it in over the weekend. Talk about totally underwhelming! The pull pork was dry, over cooked and had no flavor at all. The bun was pretty plain. Nothing impressed about the food at all. It was a one and done trip, not going back for any reason. We are a family of four, but one order was from the kids menu and the total with drinks was over 45 dollars. It was too expensive for what it is.

Service was crap too, no one asked how the food was or if we needed anything.

I know they are trying to be cochon butcher but it's bad.

I wouldn't call it bad at all, but the amount of press CP gets on here relative to the actual food is out of control. There's a long thread about City Pork somewhere that was absurd.

This post was edited on 10/22/14 at 5:56 pm

Posted by ruzil

Baton Rouge

Member since Feb 2012

16925 posts

Posted on 10/22/14 at 5:55 pm to broadhead

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broadhead

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This thread finally made me create an account on TD.

We had been really looking forward to trying this place and made it in over the weekend. Talk about totally underwhelming! The pull pork was dry, over cooked and had no flavor at all. The bun was pretty plain. Nothing impressed about the food at all. It was a one and done trip, not going back for any reason. We are a family of four, but one order was from the kids menu and the total with drinks was over 45 dollars. It was too expensive for what it is.

Service was crap too, no one asked how the food was or if we needed anything.

I know they are trying to be cochon butcher but it's bad. Real bad.

Hey Smokey.

Posted by fightin tigers

Downtown Prairieville

Member since Mar 2008

73681 posts

Posted on 10/22/14 at 6:09 pm to broadhead

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family of four, but one order was from the kids menu and the total with drinks was over 45 dollars. It was too expensive for what it is.

Maybe it is just me, but 45 doesn't sound that bad.

Posted by LouisianaLady

Member since Mar 2009

81211 posts

Posted on 10/22/14 at 6:11 pm to fightin tigers

Always makes for a good chuckle when someone takes a family of 4 to dinner with drinks and complains about $45.

The menu is online.. with prices.

The meals are no more than a dollar or so above the chicken sandwiches at Sammy's, as I said earlier.

If you want to complain about the food, that's your opinion and that's fine. But the prices are not unreasonable IMO.

Hell, my drive thru Wendy's meal the other day was $8. The meals at CP are like $9-10.

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Posted by fightin tigers

Downtown Prairieville

Member since Mar 2008

73681 posts

Posted on 10/22/14 at 6:22 pm to LouisianaLady

Curious about the price comparison since the poster wanted to compare it to Butcher, which...whatever.

Butcher is $1-2 per sandwich higher and no kids menu.

Personally, if their goal is to compete with Butcher they missed on the concept. Maybe the new place is what is referenced.

Posted by CSB

Member since May 2014

1202 posts

Posted on 10/22/14 at 7:27 pm to fightin tigers

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if their goal is to compete with Butcher they missed on the concept

Exactly, it looks like a low rent version of Butcher, and the food tastes like a low rent version of Butcher's food. I'd say they definitely missed on the concept. Please don't tell my you can't see the resemblance between the two restaurants.

Take the price out of the equation, perhaps it is a recent development but the meat just isn't good at CP. I've tried the pulled pork and the brisket and both have been either way salty or completely flavorless. When you have a total of 6 sandwiches on your menu, many of which include different permutations of the same ingredients (meats), the meat better be executed flawlessly or people are not going to come back. They completely miss the mark on their meats and for that reason, myself and others in this thread will not spend another dime at that place. They are clearly overextending themselves by opening a second location and I predict they will be completely underwater in about a year's time unless they figure out how to use their smoker.

Posted by fightin tigers

Downtown Prairieville

Member since Mar 2008

73681 posts

Posted on 10/22/14 at 7:38 pm to CSB

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Exactly, it looks like a low rent version of Butcher, and the food tastes like a low rent version of Butcher's food. I'd say they definitely missed on the concept. Please don't tell my you can't see the resemblance between the two restaurants.

I see a resemblance, but again, it isn't a copy of Butcher. Cheaper version that appeals to the BR masses I agree. They concentrate on simplified andwiches. Recently they have tried to get into the charcuterie, but a long way from what Butcher has attempted.

Can't comment on the meat, haven't been there in a couple of months. Every time I have been it is has been very good.

Overall I think comparing it to Butcher is a joke, but if it all you know I guess that is what you will do.

Posted by Rickety Cricket

Premium Member

Member since Aug 2007

46883 posts

Posted on 10/22/14 at 7:59 pm to lsufan9193969700

When it opened, you couldn't go a day on here without seeing a new thread. Haven't heard anything about it in a few months.

Posted by Creamer

louisiana

Member since Jul 2010

2817 posts

Posted on 10/22/14 at 9:30 pm to Rickety Cricket

I had the Cuban there a couple weeks ago. Sandwich, chips, and drink was around $15. Pork in the sandwich had that overheated in a microwave taste, I don't know how else to explain it. Chips were over salted, and I felt like I had just drank a cup of grease afterwards. Only been once so I can't speak for anything else there.

Posted by broadhead

Member since Oct 2014

2111 posts

Posted on 10/23/14 at 10:00 am to LouisianaLady

I should clarify then. I'm not complaining about spending $45 for lunch. The quality of the food didn't justify the cost. That's my complaint.

And the other poster who said it tasted like meat reheated in the microwave too long nailed it.