Sweet Dixie’s Southern Cuisine

It’s all about the pulled pork here– so freaking good. This is technically 4.5 stars because I wanted a bigger portion of potato salad– it comes in a little sauce type side thing. But the food is pretty inexpensive overall, and does not disappoint. Best BBQ I’ve had yet in Denver!

I had heard about this place through a couple of friends and, being a ho for BBQ had been excited to try it out for a few weeks now. I work downtown and moseyed over to Civic Center for the «Hump Day Café» gathering of food trucks and was happy to see Sweet Dixie’s parked there!
I ended up getting the Lexington pulled pork sliders with a side of potato salad. The sliders were soooooooooo good. The sauce was different than what I’m used to because it’s vinegar based, but was very tangy and delicious. It was very juicy and messy, so make sure to grab extra napkins. The potato salad was also pretty bomb diggity, with a small squeeze of sriracha sauce atop it. Yum-​O!
Can’t wait to return for another hump day café of delicious Q!

I popped over to Civic Center Park today. Wednesday is a slow day for food trucks, but I was hungry and I didn’t pack a lunch. I ordered the Lexington pulled pork sliders with coleslaw. YUM! Tangy and flavorful! Great deal on Great food!

Had the lexington style pulled pork sandwich. It was DELICIOUS. Something that would typically take me ten minutes to eat, took me about 2, because i couldn’t put it down! It was perfect! And super cheap! If this food truck was in front of my work, i would set money aside to make sure i could eat here daily! Fantastic. Mouthgasm for sure!

This food truck gave me food poisoning. I have never been so sick in my life. I dragged myself into an urgent care after 6 hours of constant vomiting and was advised by the physician to never eat there again. The food I was served was not suitable to be fed to a pack of starving coyotes. **DINER BEWARE!**

Soul food + food truck = me dying and going to heaven. I didn’t even know this truck existed until this past weekend when I walked out of Great Divide Brewing and it was sitting right there. They have a kick ass selection of southern goodies and it barely took minutes to make their spicy chicken bbq sandwich (I can’t remember what the technical name was).
Alright, let’s talk spicy.
Being a spice lover, one of my pet peeves in life is when an establishment says something is spicy and it’s not.
Sweet Dixie’s is NOT one of those places. Their sandwich had me graciously reaching for my water and I loved every bite. Their potato salad was decent but could have used an extra kick of each spice or salt. All in all, great food from a local business – I can’t wait to see where I run into them again!

There was a couple sitting at the edge of a curb near the white food truck. Considering that the sidewalk next to Sweet Dixie’s was bustling, I found this to be a warning that the food may not be all that good.
Boy do I stand corrected.
I had the country fried tofu meal and my date had the sweet potato fries. The total came up to around $ 9 (6 for the meal and 3 for the fries). We sat near the end of the truck and watched curiously as our food was conjured up. Around 5ish minutes later, our food was handed to us nice and hot! The fried tofu looked alot like fish sticks (Kanye loves ‘em), and came with this orangey coloured sauce that tasted like heaven on earth with a splash of 1000 island. The potato salad was pheNOMenal, and the biscuit was GET OUT OF TOWN good. The biscuit comes with a side of butter but it is perfectly fine on it’s own crumbly, sweet, and warm self.
OK STOP.
The sweet potato fries are ridiculous. They taste like really good sweet potato fries but paired with the dijon mustard dipping sauce (tastes alot like awesome honey mustard), oh wow.
Right when we got our food, 9 other people suddenly showed up and started ordering (isn’t it strange how these things happen in waves?).
Oh and get this, a little moist towelette is also included with the meal!

2012 Review #84:
Full disclosure: we know the Beth, the main owner of this business. We knew her from her previous job, where we saw her weekly for about 5 years. So, we’re not close friends or anything, but we were excited about the new restaurant. That said, it took a long time for us to finally track them down.
Sweet Dixie’s has a physical location at 26^th and Kipling. They recently incurred some fire damage but the store should be reopened soon. In addition, though, they have a food truck. The truck goes to various locations, and is occasionally documented on their Facebook page, though they can be a bit difficult to pin down. We were near 19^th and Blake one night, and there was Sweet Dixie’s.
The menu is Carolina-​style southern food, with some Texas-​style dishes as well. We tried the Carolina and the Texas pulled pork, the potato salad, and the macaroni and cheese. They also had a BBQ chicken sandwich, and baby back ribs. So often, pulled pork only tastes like the sauce that’s poured on it. The pork mostly tastes like nothing, and so often is really tough. This pork, though, actually has flavor on its own! And it was tender. the Carolina sauce was labeled spicy but was more just tangy. The texas-​style was nice and sweet. My friend ordered the potato salad and said, over and over, that it tasted just like his grandmother’s. He was clearly impressed; comparing anything to one’s Grandmother is always high praise.
My macaroni and cheese, to me, was pretty basic. I don’t really think macaroni and cheese does well when it’s not made to order, because it sits and gets sorta congealed. My husband pointed out that it should be pretty basic to be on a food truck and be a southern staple, which is true. It had more cheese flavor than your average version, and Beth gave me some Texas BBQ sauce to drizzle on top. It did help the flavor, and added some complexity. Next time I’d probably get the potato salad over the macaroni; if we go to the restaurant though, I will definitely give the macaroni a try again because I think having the ease of making it to order in a restaurant would help. They also have a lot of desserts at the restaurant location, including cupcakes and pie.
The truck parks in the Golden/​Wheat Ridge/​Denver areas, which makes it one of the few food trucks that goes *all the way out to Golden*. That alone makes it worth finding if you’re out in our neck of the woods. Otherwise, it’s a great place to stop at between bars, or at the restaurant location for some down-​home eats.