Stupid Good BBQ

Reviews

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  Forrest Burke

  2 days ago
  3.0
  Sweet Cornbread tastes like cake. It’s not traditional, but a decent finish to the very salty brisket which was smoky and too tender, tho well rendered. Pulled pork had a better balance, tho not enough hickory. Fries were an embarrassment for a GAR spot. No brick or earthen pit, this a gas fired operation … perhaps suitable for Virginia, but would fail in the home of BBQ pork (DeSoto introducing hogs to the Alabama tribes in 1540)
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  J. Mitchell

  4 days ago
  4.0
  They forgot to add my sides to my takeout order a couple of times, but Tory made sure to fix it and was really nice about it. I really appreciate the good customer service even though the attention to detail could be better. The food is good but there are better bbq places out there.
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  Christopher Lambert

  5 days ago
  2.0
  So. High points. People were friendly, nice, and pleasant. Atmosphere was pretty good and it was a clean joint. The food though.. almost feel bad, but it was the worst bbq I've had in northern VA. I recognize I have high standards, being from Texas, but my brisket should look like brisket, soft and moist, vs a grey rectangle, stiff and dry. It was laying flat on my plate and I spun it with my fork like it was a ruler. The cornbread was good, but don't get the brisket.
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  Johnny Nguyen

  Oct 14, 2025
  4.0
  Ordered a 3 meat plate in order to get a taste for most of the food, have not tried everything from the menu yet but, in my choice of 3 meat the only thing that was good in taste for me was the sliced Angus. Got a bunch of Cornbread, which was nice as it wasn’t dry. Paid $30 and I wasn’t full until I ate all that cornbread but if I didn’t I’m not sure I would have been satisfied.
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  F'burg Foodie

  Sep 22, 2025
  2.0
  A few of us stopped in for lunch to give this place, the most recent Great American Restaurant our first try. GAR restaurants are solid and know for their excellent customer service and their interesting menus, which they execute nearly perfectly every time. Operating a smokehouse isn’t the same, as it takes a special type of chef to be a pitmaster and most “chefs” aren’t pitmasters. That being said, I figured it would be tough for chain, even a local chain which is excellent to do a smokehouse. The majority of the reviews and comments in local foodie groups I reviewed weren’t too positive about this place, but I needed to try it for myself. I got a sampling of proteins; prime brisket, turkey, ribs, and sausage. The brisket was easily the best – nice crust and smoke, while being tender. The next up were the ribs, as they were tender and nicely smoked. But the sausage was pretty bad, tasted too much like raw pork with a tough casing and hardly any smoke. Then the turkey was the worst… one person in my group said it had the taste and texture of the turkey you get in a Lunchable and as soon as he said that, it was immediately what I thought of, as it reminded me of the same thing. Really wasn’t good at all. When it came to the sides, they were decent, with the beans being the best and the mac & cheese next up. The potatoes in the potato salad were too hard, not al dente, but harder. The cornbread was excellent though. Overall, the service and venue were nice, but the meat was too inconsistent. I can see why this place gets the no-so-good reviews it does. I won’t be back.