Bobby’s Bar-B-Q Buffet

The food isn’t very good, but there’s lots of it. Ribs aren’t really barbecued — no smoky or grilled flavor at all. Lots of things tasted like they hadn’t been salted at all. The food is a lot cheaper than other barbecue places, but it tastes cheaper, too. Service was very good. That’s the only reason I gave them 2 stars instead of 1. This is our closest restaurant, but we won’t go back.

Ok BBQ. The side orders seem to be dried out when you get a take out order. Have to pay extra for an extra small cup of sauce when it is a take out order. Drink price is to high. It is the closest q place to the house, so I reckon it will do.

Bobby’s has a decent priced buffet. Lots of BBQ places are charging $ 14+ for their buffet. The hash wasn’t my favorite, but the que was ok. They had chop and hole hog. Slaw, Mac & Cheese, and most of the fixin’s weren’t bad. I love trying to new BBQ places, so I was glad to get the opportunity through work to try Bobby’s out.

Not the worst BBQ I’ve ever had, but pretty close.
I went to Bobby’s back in the 2000 timeframe a few times because a group I was a member of met there. I recall not being impressed. I am a huge BBQ fan, this was not it.
I went back today, again with a group. If anything, it was worse than I remember. I had pulled pork, green beans, hash and rice, potato salad, and a couple of hush puppies. None of it was really worth eating and certainly not worth spending money on. I would not eat here if it were the only BBQ in a 200 mile radius.
Pulled pork: not sure how they cook it, but it was not on wood unless it was heavily subsidized with gas or electric and it was not cooked as long as it should have been (and you can make decent pulled pork with gas or electric). It was pulled poorly, not really a big deal, but pulled pork should not require a knife for anything. Actually, not enough fat, either. But, the killer was the sauce, a sickly sweet mustard sauce. Now, mustard sauce is a midlands South Carolina thing from German settlers. Not may favorite BBQ sauce, but I don’t mind it at all if done well. This was far too sweet. Mustard sauce can vary like vinegar and ketchup based sauces, but this was the mustard equivalent of sickly sweet Kansas City BBQ sauce. Try some vinegar for goodness sake. It is prepared with the sauce, so no option for opting out (the best pulled pork requires no sauce).
Rice and hash: Pretty standard stuff, not horrible and not terrible. Rice sticky enough for me. Hash did not have liver (I don’t like liver in hash, but it is traditional and I will never hold t, hat against a restaurant in a review. The hash could have been two or three star, but it was just meh.
Green beans: out of a can and cooked with fatback. I love fatback, but not canned beans. I can do this at home in a couple of minutes.
Potato salad: Really bad, institutional quality bulk potato salad. I can buy better at the grocery store deli.
Hush puppies: Not bad, standard, but cooked decently
I will never go back unless circumstances dictate. I hate it when I have to give a bad review to a local place, but they were doing a great business, so they are doing fine.

Expensive for what you get.
1. As of Aug 2014, they now charge extra for drinks — it used to be included in the buffet price.
2. The BBQ isn’t good. There are A TON of great BBQ places around if you want tasty pulled pork.
3. And finally, while the selection may be large they purposely hold back on putting their fried chicken on the buffet (which may be the best item they have). Not only do they not keep enough chicken cooked and ready, they slice all the chicken breasts in half just to make it go farther! Cheap!!!

So our next stop along the bbq trail was a stop at Bobby’s Bar-​B-​Q. The building is large, and clearly they do good business. The lady at the desk was very friendly. However, the place has the overall feel to a rest stop on I-​95. It has weird keychain racks with those keychains that have your name on them, you can buy postcards, etc. There is a large buffet, offering a number of standard bbq sides, all of which looked good. This is a review of the bbq only.
The meat was somewhat flavorless, and not all that impressive. It didn’t have a nice smokey taste to it, it was just… bland. And a bit dry. The bbq sauce was tasty, but didn’t make up for it. There are better BBQ places, this isn’t all that impressive.

I’ve eaten here a few times and I was never quite impressed with the food. Their barbeque is ‘wet and soggy’. I’d rather have barbeque that’s tender and the sauce baked into the meat versus having it running everywhere. There’s alot to choose from here but just not to my liking. If you like ‘wet’ barbeque, you would love this place.

This is a classic BBQ restaurant, open Wed. through Sunday, buffet style. I’ve had better BBQ but this is very good, and well worth the price. Lots of sides, chicken, meatloaf, catfish, ribs, etc. and of course banana pudding for dessert. Very friendly staff as well.

Locals know about it, so should you!
Bobby’s BBQ has in my opinion the finest BBQ I have ever eaten. It is the BBQ by which I compare all BBQ. I am yet to find anything that even COMPARES let alone is better.
This is an all-​you-​can-​eat style restaurant with a 2 row buffet. Sides include delicious hush puppies, homemade macaroni and cheese, corn, rice, hash, sweet and dill pickles, coleslaw, baked beans, there may be more, but I never get that far!
The restaurant is family owned. On a good day, Bobby may even come sit with you for a while and talk!
The sauce is a combination sauce like nothing I’ve ever tasted. Its not mustard ketchup or vinegar based, its totally unique.
If you want a seat and some of the Macaroni before it runs out, come in groups and come early!