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re: What’s the board’s opinion on Dreamland BBQ?
Posted on 9/23/21 at 7:36 pm to uaslick
Posted on 9/23/21 at 7:36 pm to uaslick
Not sure if I went to the wrong one or not (Tuscaloosa near the university that is there), and I was distinctly underwhelmed. Ribs were tough and drowned in sauce. Definitely a let down.
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Posted on 9/23/21 at 9:08 pm to BigPapiDoesItAgain
They’re all the same now, even the original which is nowhere near campus.
Posted on 9/23/21 at 10:01 pm to Clovis Pilgreen
I have been to the original one in Tuscaloosa and the one in Mobile. Very good bbq ribs with absolutely no frills.
Posted on 9/24/21 at 12:23 am to Clovis Pilgreen
Add at the Huntsville location. Meh. I guess it was better than Big Bob's in Decatur though. So I said something nice about it after all.
This post was edited on 9/24/21 at 12:27 am
Posted on 9/24/21 at 4:39 am to AlwysATgr
RIP the ill fated BR location .... couldn't make it in a town lacking in BBQ (especially at the time) 
Posted on 9/24/21 at 11:58 am to JW
The Baton Rouge effort failed. Besides a good product, a good BBQ place needs a visible owner/manager who loves the product and fawns over the place. I thought the building was REALLY too high rent for BBQ - looked like a buffed up Steak and Ale. It had no BBQ personality and no guiding light. And I saw the pit folks POURING salt on the ribs while they cook. It was not meant to be.
Posted on 9/24/21 at 12:10 pm to Clovis Pilgreen
Yea, it's incredibly overrated. I haven't been in like 20 years when it was literally just ribs, white bread and either a Budweiser or a Coke.
Go to Archibald's if you're in Tuscaloosa.
Go to Archibald's if you're in Tuscaloosa.
Posted on 9/24/21 at 2:19 pm to AlwysATgr
quote:Yeah, they are both meh.
Meh. I guess it was better than Big Bob's in Decatur though.
Posted on 9/24/21 at 2:29 pm to Clovis Pilgreen
I thought it was great when I was a kid and visited the original location in Tuscaloosa. Then they decided to open one in BR and it was not even edible from what I remember.
Posted on 9/24/21 at 2:33 pm to The Spleen
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That was put on the menu at the original as a joke because people would come in asking for a sandwich when the menu clearly stated ribs and white bread. I guess it's funny they've carried on the tradition at the other locations.
Didn't know that. I was still new to Birmingham and we were at an audit client downtown, and someone on our team wanted to eat lunch at the one here. The BBQ places in my hometown in south Alabama weren't big on ribs, mostly chipped or pulled pork. The type of places you go to more for the sides than the bbq.
Posted on 9/24/21 at 3:39 pm to Clovis Pilgreen
Shitty ribs for way too much
Posted on 9/24/21 at 4:42 pm to TU Rob
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Didn't know that.
Most people don't. I should have said it was kind of an inside joke. I used to work with one of the original owner's nephews. He told me all kinds of inside scoop, though a lot of it may have been BS. He said in the mid-80's they got sideways with the IRS and a bunch of regulars collected money to bail them out so he could stay open. The owner was basically just making up daily sales numbers and because they were all cash, there weren't any records. I think he said at the time he didn't even have a company bank account. One of the local tax lawyers or CPA's helped him as well and got a lot of the penalties waived. That was around the time they started taking checks and got an actual cash register.
Posted on 9/24/21 at 5:34 pm to The Spleen
Never been to the original, but I've been to a couple in metro Atlanta and one in Mobile. The ribs were very hit or miss, mostly miss.
The sauce and the white bread are the best items.
The sauce and the white bread are the best items.
Posted on 9/24/21 at 5:59 pm to uaslick
It was awful when I went to eat there years ago. I cook competition and those ribs wouldn’t be fit for my dog to eat!
Posted on 9/24/21 at 9:36 pm to Clovis Pilgreen
I thought it sucked the one time I went a few years ago
Posted on 9/24/21 at 9:41 pm to lsubruce
quote:This place also sucks arse. I'll never understand how it always stays packed
TJ Ribs
Posted on 9/25/21 at 8:28 am to Pelican fan99
I went to the one in Tuscaloosa in 1997, we had to wait in line forever, but it was great. We tried to one they opened up on Perkins about 20 years ago hoping for the same, driest toughest ribs ever.
We tried the one in Birmingham last year, it was like the one on Perkins, dry and tough, they brag that it is not "fall off the bone", but firmer, a lot firmer. We'll stick to Full Moon or Jim n' Nicks.
We tried the one in Birmingham last year, it was like the one on Perkins, dry and tough, they brag that it is not "fall off the bone", but firmer, a lot firmer. We'll stick to Full Moon or Jim n' Nicks.
Posted on 9/25/21 at 11:17 am to Clovis Pilgreen
I’ve been to the one in Huntsville. The sauce is really good. I even got a bottle to go.
Besides that, it was so unmemorable I don’t even remember what I ate.
Besides that, it was so unmemorable I don’t even remember what I ate.
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