otello

That's fine with me. Let's come up with a list of places that we must hit.

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Excellent food. Excellent company. An incredible value. What more could you want? We shall surely return. Thanks again for setting this up and we hope to see many of you on the 3rd in Charles County for good BBQ.

Next meeting: Sunday, October 3rd, 12pm - we leave from an agreed upon location to go to Charles County. We'll arrive 1 or 1:30 I'm guessing (alternatively, we can meet in CC at a specific time) From the thread above, desitinations could be: Johnny Boy's Ribs, on Rt 301 just south of the Rt 6 crossroads at La Plata OR Charles County has the best bbq in the greater D. C. and Baltimore areas since open air pits are allowed. There are at least 15 of these with Johnny Boy's the most famous. If someone knows specifics for the other places, please post here. The date is set, the general location is set, everything else is open to discussion. Post here or PM if you're coming.

Sit at the counter. Half Smoke with everything. Cheese fries are passable. Simply put, DC is not a good sandwich town. If you give it more than three grease stains for the food, I will be surprised. Maybe four, if you take into account the ambience/history angle. Let me know when you're coming by, maybe we'll come and meet you.

I agree. I am totally up for Charles County. We can talk about it on the 7th at Colorado Kitchen.

otello +1 please. thanks again.

this would interest me and the SO greatly. thanks for setting this up.

that doesn't sound good for busboy.....

and next door isn't. I'll be across the street, drinking alone or with others. I'm flexible like that.

This weekend suddenly got bad for me. Work issues. I will reschedule.

It was bad enough that I'll be on vacation and miss the picnic. Now that pulled pork is involved, I'm officially . I hope you're happy.

Has the date been finalized? Why not close the place for a few hours (ok, more than a few) for a private party, like Monica arranged at Passage to India? THAT would be fun.

excuse my ignorance, but how do you load photos here?

I will get them up shortly. Sorry for the delay. How about July 31st for the next meeting of the club?

The review does touch on a pet peeve of mine: the extent to which steakhouses miss the mark on doneness. It happened a couple of weeks ago with me at Gallagher's. Got the bone-in strip and it wasn't even close. I got the classic "did you cut deep into the meat?" Yes, sir, I did, and it was medium WELL. Nothing like a brown center in a steak. In their defense, they did get the replacement right. Haven't been to Wolfgang's, but my experience with Luger's has been generally positive on this score. I know every piece of meat is different, but it's a steak house's raison d'etre. Get it right. I reserve the balance of my time.

We're sorry but we're not going to be able to make it that day (vacation). Definitely next time.

week of the 12th is good for us.

can't do july 5th. that week is bad for me. 6pm generally during the week is not doable. We'd need to get down there later. Maybe we can do an alternative date as well? What is the largest group they'll let us bring in there?

My wife and I are so in, schedule permitting.

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The inaugural meeting of the DCBBQ club took place yesterday. We all met at the Rib Pit at 1pm. After some introductions, we placed our order: 3 slabs of pork ribs 2 pulled pork sandwiches 2 brisket sandwiches 2 large sides of greens, beans, mac 'n cheese and coleslaw Total: $100.76 (about $11 or $12 a person) Somehow the rib tips we planned to order got lost in the shuffle. What shuffle, you ask? Well, it seemed like everyone who came into the place to order, which was take out only, insisted on talking to (make that yelling at) us about the food, their bathing habits, and current events (like the drowning of the poor kid who was the rowing coach from UVA in the potomac; I'll let someone else tell that part, which was VERY funny - no, I'm not crazy or depraved, you had to be there). It's not like we were looking to talk to these people, believe me, they were clearly looking to talk to us, and boy they did. It took about 20 minutes to get the food after ordering (there was only one guy taking orders behind the two-inch thick glass, hence the wait) and during that whole time we were regaled with tales from the locals. After we got the food, the convoy drove west to Rock Creek Park, where Mrs. Busboy and the Busboy's daughter/photographer had secured picnic area 26 for our enjoyment. We set up shop and dug in. Perfect day for a picnic. How was the food, you ask? The consensus I think was that the food was good, not great. Their sauce was too sweet for our collective taste. Meat-wise, I liked the non-baby back pork ribs the most, but the sweetness of the sauce overwhelmed the flavor of the meat. Next time, and for future outings, I think we'll get the ribs dry, and sauce them to our own taste. Somehow the sauce for the pulled pork was even sweeter than what was on the ribs. Not a good thing. As for the brisket sandwich, I rank it between the ribs and pulled pork, but hardly special. I liked the greens the best, finely chopped with lots of flavor. The slaw and beans were nothing special. The mac 'n cheese was good, as well (but, then again, I love mac 'n cheese out of the box). The place is legit, cooking with wood (I couldn't tell what type - should have asked), reeking of smoke aromas (the glass partition notwithstanding). The meat had the smokey flavor we all seek, but was comprised by a BBQ sauce that the group for the most part seeks to avoid. I think the assembled group prefers more bite to the BBQ sauce, and this place's sauce didn't have it. As we do more of these, I think we'll get the ordering down pat. Given that the place was takeout and we had to drive to the picnic area to eat, it turned out great. This was probably as logistically difficult an outing as we're likely to encounter. Having said all that, for $11 or so a person (excluding drinks), the value was really outstanding. Having a group of eight or so (or more) permits us to order and sample alot of different things and not worry about waste. More importantly, I enjoyed meeting everybody and the good conversation. I think that we have the beginnings of a good group. Thanks to all who made this happen. See ya next month. Otello

All who can make it are welcome. I'm going stop for drinks prior to getting there. I'm bringing a chair. So we're: otello (plus one more possibly) mkte +2 busboy bbq4meanytime hillvalley anyone else? here's a map: http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?count...arch=++Search++

Sounds good!Any distinguising characteristics so we'll recognize you otello? i'll be wearing a red baseball hat and (hopefully) with my wife, unless an estate sale captures her fancy.

why don't we just meet there at 1pm and take it from there?