Redbones BBQ
Redbones BBQ
St. Louis Ribs Dinner
BBQ Meat Platter with mac n cheese and baked beans
Inside
Redbones- Davis Square
Outside
Store front
Outside
The 30$ Any 3 Combo
Pickles, hush puppies, a pint of greens and mac & cheese, with meat combination two sides and sauce
Delivery 12 Buffalo Wings (12)
BBQ Meat Platter with potato pearls and a $2.75 piece of cornbread
St. Louis style ribs 1/2 rack
food, bbq ribs, ribs
Fried, boneless chicken thighs and pulled pork dinner
Lonely, not a fancy outing... 1965 vintage
Nice wall poster
Fried chicken (spicy) with gravy
BBQ Meat Platter
Menu as of 10.3.24
Receipt before suggested tips
Wall postings
Pulled Pork Dinner Cornbread & Butter
outside
Violet Y.
Oct 11, 2024
Got this off Uber eats when I was craving barbecue. For reference im from the south and am used to good pulled pork or bbq in general. Even before taking it out of the bag I knew it would be great due to the smoked smell. Great portion sizes (dinner pulled pork), glad to see collard greens as a side and corn bread of course. Super tender and great flavor, and the sweet sauce is perfect. Will be my new go to bbq place!
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Edwin A.
May 27, 2024
My wife and I were frequent visitors years ago before moving out of state. Returned this weekend after a long absence. Something wrongly changed. Summary Service. Food served in to-go containers - no plates! Plasticware rather than silverware. Given the small table we had containers stacked all over that made it uncomfortable to eat. Food. Generally smaller portions than before. Boneless "fried chicken" thighs. That's a no-no. They removed the nachos from the menu, which were superb in the old days. Pinto beans floating in broth. Mac-n-cheese that looked from a box (and served in small tupperware). No smoke on the ribs and tasted the dry rub powder (are they even smoking on site?). Mashed potatoes that looked more like apple sauce. Everything that used be normally part of a plate at no charge (beans, slaw, cornbread) is now an additional charged side. Oh, soggy fries.I'm sure it'll continue to have its client base with all the college kids in the area but it's really too bad to see a place we were regulars at take a turn. I guess we will hang on to the memories of what this place once was.
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Erika V.
Oct 4, 2024
Ummm this meal was out of this world! It smelled absolutely delicious before I even opened it. I was so hungry after walking for hours, but I could only eat about half and took the rest to go. I'm usually not a fan of restaurant mac n cheese, but this one is so good! Service was very friendly and the establishment has very fun decor.
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Benjamin H.
Sep 28, 2024
Stopped by this classic Somerville haunt for Oktoberfest outdoor seating on a beautiful Friday afternoon. The team was great and the food delicious. Matt found a great table for our family with our little toddler, and everyone was welcome and well fed. A+ baby back ribs, and liters of German festbeer!
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Rick C.
Sep 12, 2023
What I liked:- good food portions served immediately after order is placed. - cheap, craft beer on tap. Multiple IPAs!- loads of seating indoors and outdoors Areas to improve?- service. Seemed to take awhile to get served after taking a seat.
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Alexandra S.
Aug 1, 2023
Time for an update. Full disclosure: I haven't been to the brick and mortar Redbones location since before the pandemic, but my husband went a couple of months ago for lunch with a friend of his. However, just a couple of weeks ago Tom and I were at a party where the hosts had food trucks supplying the dinner.One of the food trucks at this party was from Redbones BBQ so this review is based on my most recent experience with the food from their food truck as well as Tom's report of his recent lunch at the restaurant.Let me start by saying my husband and I love barbecue and years ago, we were regulars at Redbones. Once upon a time one could expect excellent, delicious BBQ, and fabulous side dishes. One would also be assured of a lively and fun time with good service. It was a great hit of Southern fare here in New England. On my husband's recent visit he said the service was unfriendly and abrupt, the portions he said, were shockingly small and the food mediocre at best. Quite surprisingly he said, everything was served in takeout boxes even though he and his friend were dining inside the restaurant. Instead of silverware, Tom told me they are now using plastic utensils. It looks like they are trying to save money by not using dishes or utensils that need washing. But honestly, can you imagine eating BBQ (or anything for that matter) with flimsy plastic utensils? Let's not even get into all the waste of plastic and paper this also engenders.I don't know anyone who likes eating out of a takeout box inside of a restaurant versus off of a china plate, casual BBQ fare included.Tom and his friend said they were also surprised at how few people were in the restaurant. This is a place that was always busy.My husband noted that the prices have increased substantially despite the drastic decrease in quantity and quality and the decline in good service.Tom and his friend were disappointed with every aspect of their lunch experience.Fast forward several weeks and friends of ours had a casual outdoor anniversary party using among other vendors, a Redbones food truck. I opted to try what the Redbones food truck was offering and had the brisket. Unfortunately, the brisket was absolutely drenched in barbecue sauce. The meat seemed a bit dry and perhaps this is why they covered it with so much sauce. But you couldn't really even taste the meat given all the BBQ sauce heaped upon it. Over saucing something does not forgive poor cooking.They were also serving BBQ chicken which I did not try. The cornbread was dry. One of the sides was mac and cheese which was also dry. I tried the collard greens which is normally a vegetable I Iove. The collard greens were too watery and so lacked any depth of flavor. The serving size was about two forkfuls of the watery greens. While it may not be fair to be such a harsh judge of Redbones based on a food truck experience it does seem to go along with Tom and his friend's recent experience and those of other Yelpers who have recently dined there and shared their reviews. This decline is stunning to me given how popular and great this place once was. Redbones used to be a place where you had to wait to get a table on any given night and you didn't mind doing so because it was fun to hang out at the bar while you waited and you knew the end result would be excellent barbecue. It was an incredibly popular and busy place because the food was just that good, the vibe was fun and the service was friendly. This was a go-to place for us on many a Saturday night with friends. We would often bring friends who were visiting from out of town.Fortunately Tom has become an excellent BBQ "pitmaster" in his own right. With his own trusty smoker at home he has become adept at making truly delicious ribs as well as brisket. What is perhaps ironic is that years ago Tom had a long conversation one late night after dinner at Redbones with the chef who generously shared some of his cooking tips with Tom. We have a dearth of great BBQ places in this part of Massachusetts...Blue Ribbon in Arlington comes to mind as a good place to go but it's a bit of a haul for us to get to.Maybe Redbones can turn this around, but I don't think we will bother to go back until we hear otherwise via Yelp reviews. We still have our memories of once upon a time.
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Chet F.
Jan 14, 2024
First of all, the food is incredible! Secondly, the service sucks! Our waiter, a college-aged blond male, kept making sly comments about my eating habits. Get this guy under control!!!!! Hey, Deanna L. from Stowe, VT, you're WRONG!!!! The Mac and cheese from redbones is the best in the nation!!! Kraft could never. Periodt.
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Kirk F.
Dec 5, 2023
Top notch barbecue reasonably priced in a down-home casual place--don't expect a plate or silverware, and they do a boatload of take out. Service is friendly and attentive and brisk. I'd watch a ballgame in the bar.
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Nino E.
Jan 11, 2023
I had the pulled pork sandwich with mac n cheese. I ordered it through GrubHub. The sauce was okay , the meat was good- i would come back if i had a craving, but it's not particularly amazing. What stole the show for me was the mac n cheese. Man that was good! Id definitely come back for that itself. My 5 star basis is a BBQ joint from Austin, TX which is tough to get. I think overall this is a solid BBQ restaurant in Boston.
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Andrew O.
Sep 7, 2024
Location's the same, my meal was still pretty good, but Redbones as I knew it is dead. No wait service, no menus, NO PLATES...you just go in, order on your phone, then sit and eat takeout while terrible music pounds a migraine into your brain. The place was nearly empty on a Saturday night and I expect they'll be out of business within a year. Nice makeover, geniuses.
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