Best BBQ joint in KC area?

[rabblerouser]

Jonesing to try this Q39 now...

[|Zach|]

Shot from Q39.

[petegz28]

Originally Posted by |Zach|

Shot from Q39.

Ribs look good.
Brisket looks good.
Burnet Ends look like cubed brisket and not true burnt ends.
Beans look meh.

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

Originally Posted by petegz28

Ribs look good.
Brisket looks good.
Burnet Ends look like cubed brisket and not true burnt ends.
Beans look meh.

1) You shouldn't have noted that; now Reaper will go launch an RPG at the joint before I get to feast there.

2) I swear to all that is holy, we had the best BBQ baked beans on all of God's earth when I worked at Bobby Bells as a kid. Slow cooked with brown sugar, molasses, and rub, then the cooks would chop-up the ends of the brisket, sausage, and ham, mix it in, and let it get nice and thick in serving pot.

[Reaper16]

Originally Posted by Sweet Daddy Williams

1) You shouldn't have noted that; now Reaper will go launch an RPG at the joint before I get to feast there.

2) I swear to all that is holy, we had the best BBQ baked beans on all of God's earth when I worked at Bobby Bells as a kid. Slow cooked with brown sugar, molasses, and rub, then the cooks would chop-up the ends of the brisket, sausage, and ham, mix it in, and let it get nice and thick in serving pot.

Haha, I've been to Q39. It's a top 5 place in KC for me on the merits of how well cooked everything is. The flavor profiles are pretty sweet on the whole, however, which is not to my preference. I'd gladly eat anything that Q39 puts out again except for their ribs. WAY too sweet for me.

[jjchieffan]

Originally Posted by petegz28

Ribs look good.
Brisket looks good.
Burnet Ends look like cubed brisket and not true burnt ends.
Beans look meh.

I hear ya on the burnt ends being cubed. But who, other than Gates, doesn't cube it? My favorite burnt ends are Gates because theirs is pulled not cubed.

[kysirsoze]

Originally Posted by jjchieffan

I hear ya on the burnt ends being cubed. But who, other than Gates, doesn't cube it? My favorite burnt ends are Gates because theirs is pulled not cubed.

Arthur Bryant's. Not my favorite overall BBQ restaurant in KC, but their burnt ends are probably my favorite BBQ entree of all time. Of course, I love their sauce. I understand a lot of people don't.

[Mr. Flopnuts]

Originally Posted by kysirsoze

Arthur Bryant's. Not my favorite overall BBQ restaurant in KC, but their burnt ends are probably my favorite BBQ entree of all time. Of course, I love their sauce. I understand a lot of people don't.

They have one sauce that I LOVE and one that I loathe.

[ILChief]

I've been to jack stack. It's good but I'm not crazy about their sauce. I would like to try Arthur Bryant but don't wa to get mugged or carjacked. Heard good things about Joes.

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

Originally Posted by Mr. Flopnuts

In

Three! It's a festivus!

[SAUTO]

Originally Posted by Sweet Daddy Williams

Three! It's a festivus!

In.


Pissed I couldn't make it last night boss.

[petegz28]

Originally Posted by ILChief

I've been to jack stack. It's good but I'm not crazy about their sauce. I would like to try Arthur Bryant but don't wa to get mugged or carjacked. Heard good things about Joes.

Jack Stack sauce makes the word "meh" say "meh"

[|Zach|]

Originally Posted by ILChief

I've been to jack stack. It's good but I'm not crazy about their sauce. I would like to try Arthur Bryant but don't wa to get mugged or carjacked. Heard good things about Joes.

Neither of those things will happen to you if you go to Arthur Bryant's to matter what the crazy imaginations of suburban people tell you.

[Reaper16]

Originally Posted by |Zach|

Neither of those things will happen to you if you go to Arthur Bryant's to matter what the crazy imaginations of suburban people tell you.

I've never once felt like I was in danger at 18th and Brooklyn, not even at night.

[DanT]

Originally Posted by Reaper16

I've never once felt like I was in danger at 18th and Brooklyn, not even at night.

Here's the Crime Rate data for 64127, Arthur Bryant's zipcode:


http://www.clrsearch.com/Kansas-City...127/Crime-Rate

The risk of assault there is more than double in that zip code than in the United States as a whole. So it's not likely that a visitor would get assaulted, but it's also not like one shouldn't be aware of the fact that 18th and Brooklyn is in a dangerous part of town. I wouldn't discourage friends from visiting Bryant's, but I would make sure they knew to be alert and pay attention.

I went to junior high and senior high school at Lincoln (just up the hill, around 22nd and Brooklyn). I would feel OK but not great about walking around there at night to go take the Troost Bus home from night football games or practices. I would walk down Woodland to 19th or 18th and then walk over to Troost), but that was because I lived just east of the Paseo at 49th Terrace (a couple of blocks from Gates headquarters). Nowadays, the crime rate in 64100 is a little worse than in 64127, and I think that might have been the case back in the early 1980's, too, but I'm not sure. (I used to feel just slightly safer walking past Lincoln (21st and Woodland) at night than walking past Paseo High (near 48th and Woodland), but I felt way safer walking past Southwest High, for example.

Now that I live in a neighborhood with a low violent crime rate (zip code 95618), I'm even more on guard visiting the old neighborhoods.

By the way, even though I spent so much time near both Bryant's and Gates, I've had way more meals at Gates, at least 50 to 1. I just liked Gates better. But their quality control is not impeccable. I had two meals there a couple of weeks ago, one by my mom's house (the Swope Pkwy location, which has mutton) and the other out on 40 Highway, coming home from a Missouri Mavericks game. Gates is always good, but it's not consistently great. The fat in the mutton seems to vary from a lot to a whole lot.

If Q39 is able to expand its business while maintaining its quality standards, that would be a great accomplishment.