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Low ($)Vince Staten's Old Time BBQ
13306 W Highway 42
Prospect, KY 40059
502-228-7427
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Courier-Journal video critic Vince Staten, who cowrote the book Real Barbecue, now practices what he preaches at this sizzling joint inside the Prospect shopping center. Six made-in- house sauces can change the character of your pork, chicken or beef dish according to your whim. Jack Sauce, Texas Sweet Sauce, Memphis Sauce, North Carolina Sauce, West Texas Hot Sauce and Legal Limit Hot Sauce will ignite your palate to varying degrees. Side dishes like dill- flavored potato salad, beans and corn on the cob are more than just the afterthought they usually are in barbecue joints. And desserts like the banana pudding rival the barbecue items for succulence, if not for firepower.
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Very Overrated
I had heard a lot of great thing about this place so I finally decided to take the long drive over to visit. Food was barely warm. Meat had absolutly no smoke flavor at all. The green beans had no seasoning, the cole slaw always had a bad taste. The sauces didn't help much either. The portions versus price was not comparable. The best part of the meal was my soft drink the others with me also agreed. In my book this was not BBQ just pulled meat. There are numerous better local and chain BBQ places out there.
Dry
I've found the meat to be very dry here.
Always Good
I look forward to Vince Staten's beef sandwich, potato salad and banana pudding everytime when I'm in the area working! Never have I had a bad experience in all the years of this wonderful place.
plastic forks and food
Now i love bar-b-que, but Staten's place takes most of the flavor out with a sterile and spare decor. Paper towels is one thing at a roadside BBQ shack, but in the otherwise toney stripmall where the restaurant is located, the message i get is "hurry up, clean up, and leave."
Give me african american taste anyday -- BBQ is soul food, baby, not a hotsauce competition to find out what burns the tongue most. That macho-competition is for amateurs.