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I think the positive reviewers are playing a cruel prank on the citizens of Raleigh. The food is horrible and bland, the hardboiled eggs are questiona…
Christy
Barbecue Lodge of Raleigh
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A nice restaurant for BBQ. If you love to have some real bbq for lunch, you should stop by this place.…
Matt Greenwald
Barbecue Lodge of Raleigh
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Don't expect Yankee BBQ when you walk in here. This is real Eastern style NC BBQ done right. The family style option is a great value.…
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Barbecue Lodge of Raleigh
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9 Reviews on “Barbecue Lodge of Raleigh”
Don’t expect Yankee BBQ when you walk in here. This is real Eastern style NC BBQ done right. The family style option is a great value.
Middle of The Road Barbecue. This is a nice, family-friendly place to eat NC BBQ, especially if you like it served family style, with fried chicken, seafood ,slaw, hush puppies, corn sticks,BS, and good, country vegetables. Unfortunately, the BBQ pork itself is not what it once was, when Bob Murray was running several BBQ Lodge locations, and Bob Murray’s BBQ back toward town.The BBQ is not awful, mind you, it just doesn’t carry the show anymore. Murray’s BBQ, at all locations he was associated with, was a rather pale version of true Eastern BBQ pork to begin with. Now, it is a whiter shade of pale.This was my younger brother’s favorite place to eat in the last years of his life, so we came here often, and always ate family style. I enjoy a lot of what that entails – the seafood is not bad, the fried,chicken is good, and most of the vegetables are, as well, including the slaw.The Brunswick Stew is simply awful – there are few, if any, individual components that are recognizable (I think that is the definition of a morass), and the corn sticks are hard, dry, and probably lethal in hand-to-hand situations.The service is always great, the atmosphere pleasant, the side of town more accessible now with 540 in place, and the memories vivid and heart-warming. The 3 stars are for Charlie.
Took 2 bites and got up and left! The worst BBQ we’ve ever had! Even the side dishes were nasty!
Lousy bland gas cooked small portion BBQ. A hallmark of how bad pork should taste.
It’s OK…. Your standard NC BBQ place. Good for a fix. Not gluten-free.
The real thing. It’s got a 1980s time warp staff and decor, but the ‘cue is good. You start off with a big basket of hushpuppies and corn sticks (excellent and dry, respectively). You could get a barbeque plate for $8.50, but some quick mental calculation makes the $9.00 family style all you can eat look like a far better deal — pork, pretty good fried chicken, a yellowish pickly cole slaw, plus two vegetables off the list. Potato salad is homemade and chunky, Brunswick stew is a revelation as long as you like it dark, sweet, and full of meat. If you order iced tea, you get a whole pitcher left to your table by the grandmotherly waitress. Banana pudding is homemade and topped with meringue. If you’re in mixed (non-barbeque loving) company, you can add a couple of dollars to the family style price and get seafood as well (I forget what it was, but it was three items, I think).I’d say their hushpuppies, stew, and slaw were the best I’ve had. Everything else was right up there and nothing disappointed. That’s delivering a lot for $9.
Mediocre BBQ – not a great atmosphere and most of the food is over fried.