When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. - Hunter S. Thompson

03 January 2005

Update on Bone Lick Park

Ate dinner at Bone Lick Park (the new barbecue joint in the West Village) last night.

Despite my earlier misgivings (also noted by Gothamist), we had a pretty good meal there. I posted a full (and long) review over on Chowhound's Manhattan board; here's an excerpt.
The meat was *surprisingly* good. Bone Lick is the real deal, barbecue-wise, in that all of their meats are cooked in a massive high-tech wood "pit" over hickory and fruit woods. The meat that arrived at our table had the firm texture, slightly smoky taste (and tell-tale pink color) that comes from long, slow cooking and smoking at low temperature. No liquid smoke ever got anywhere near this meat.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I ate there too and just had the ribs. It showed a lot of promise: the meat and the smoky flavor were good. But they added a sauce onto the ribs and it wasn't necessary. The sauce was a bit watery, yet somehow overly spicy at the same time. It would've been better without it. But they'd JUST opened and I am going to give them another shot, particualrly after the dismal reviews that Dino is getting. AND I'M FROM MEMPHIS!