Sonny's Real Pit Bar-B-Q

03/16/05

Red tinged meat unappetizing

by mufdvr at Citysearch

The barbecue at Sonny's is at best not worthy of true NC barbecue. It has a red discoloration, supposedly from their cooking process. The flavor is not very complex and does require their sauce to be edible. The BBQ chicken is terribly dry and their ribs are fatty and not very meaty. They serve plenty of greasy fries and loads of dry garlic toast to fill you up. The baked beans are soupy and the beans are mealy with not much flavor. The cole slaw is also soupy and not fresh in appearance.

• Cons: Bad barbecue, Dry chiken, Too expensive

07/15/04

DO NOT GO!

by lincolnlow at Citysearch

If you want good "Q", stay away from Sonny's. The meat is not good at all. The sauce is the best thing to mask the taste of the liquid smoke that is used in excess.

• Pros: Good salad bar.

04/02/04

horrible

by ccollins8 at Citysearch

What a disappointment. With all the great bbq in town, this just may be the worst one. I have given it 2 tries, but will not go back. I will NEVER go back. Bland sauce.

Try one of the areas many bbq places and it will be a better experience than this place.

• Pros: none

05/12/03

Cold, Fatty and Tastes Bad

by Laura at Citysearch

The food is horrible! They bring you sliced or chopped unseasoned meat which is already cold when it comes to your table, then expect you to pour cold sauces out of sticky squirt bottles on the table on it and call it barbeque.

The first meat I received had so much fat on it that even the waitress took pity on me when she saw me trying to pick thru the chopped meat. She suggested sliced meat, to avoid as much fat as possible. The second serving of meat looked better (I could cut off the fat), but tasted like tender, dry, cold, leather. I tried 2-3 sauces. Cold unseasoned meat dipped in cold bad sauces don't add up to BBQ.

I've grown up eating BBQ from all over. I love both vinegar and tomato based. Sonny's does NOT measure up.

• Pros: Inexpensive, All-You-Can-Eat Times, Good parking
• Cons: Tastes Bad, Too much fat, Sauces are cold