hoodoo brown bbq

the person who used the description of texas stylebbqhave never had texas bbq.   people in texas know how to bbq.   hoodoos is ridiculously expensive forbbqthat would be a disappointment even at a beach party prepared by drunk friends who have difficulty standing or forming words.   the outside of the ribs had way way way too much bark and it was overcooked at a high temp for about an extra day - flavorless grey through and through.     if it was a $12bbqi would have expected poorbbqin that expensive part of the state but holy crap for $60 (not kidding $60) i expect a decent meal.  if i wasn't with family i only get to see twice a year i would have shown it to the owner and told him how to prepare a decent bbq.  perhaps i went on a night when the owner's janitor's barber (whose tongue was shot off in the war) was filling in for the normal cook but frankly they should have just closed if that was the case.   i wouldn't recommend this place to anyone unless i really disliked them.

the worstbbqi've ever had. proves my theory to never havebbqnorth of virginia. took forever to get served and the food we were served was disgusting and overpriced. the smoke smell that filled the restaurant is what got me pumped, yet the meat we ate tasted microwaved and wasn't a single taste of smoke inside of it. maybe it's because they are new to the restaurant industry, but hopefully it gets better before it gets worse (if possible).

call us jaded, but when we hear about a newbbqjoint opening up here in ct we are more than skeptical. to be honest, we have only found one spot (bear’s in hartford) that had good meats and good sides with the rest of places here in ct having one or two good items, but never holding out a full house. well, we suspect things ’bout to change ’round these parts with the opening of hoodoo brownbbqin ridgefield on may 22 at 5:30 pm. we can safely say that from what dan tasted recently during a special preview, that hoodoo brownbbqhas the potential to be the best in the state, if not the surrounding states. wooooh, demm fighting words! okay, let us explain:

the heck with “veni, vidi, vici,” my return visit to hoodoo brownbbqin ridgefield was more we came, we saw, we ordered and man we tried. and when i say we tried…we tried every meat on the menu and we tried to eat every ounce of meat on numerous trays. if this was a gunfight with hoodoo brown in the 1870s we would be full of holes, he won.

we know, we know, the “professionals” say that you’re never supposed to go to a restaurant during the first few weeks of opening, let alone the first day! and we totally understand why, but what you gotta understand is, after dan raaaaaaaved about his preview of hoodoo brown barbeque a few weeks ago (when kristien was at a 6.5 hour hair appoint–yeah, wtf?), saying it was some of the bestbbqhe’s ever had, kristien had to get in asap to confirm his declarations. apparently we weren’t the only ones excited because even way before their opening at 5:30 on may 23, there was a line that stretched down the parking lot with people ready to get down and dirty with nestor laracuente’s texas outlaw bbq. pretty awesome for a first night in business, huh?