Lee Roy Selmon, defensive lineman for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, may have been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame but his restaurant in Tampa, Florida won’t ever be confused with hall of fame bbq. As far as bbq is concerned tonight’s dinner was strictly Pop Warner.
The BBQ was as ordinary as ordinary commercial bbq can get. The pork ribs were your normal fall of the bone mush one comes to expect from a chain restaurant. The pulled pork had a little bark but lacked any real rub or smoke flavor. The chicken was just dry old banquet quality chicken. The sauces was served already coating everything and lacked any originality. Might as well have been off the shelf, grocery story bottled sauce.
The wait staff lacked any personality that might have made the evening at least somewhat interesting. When one of the waitresses spilled a drink on our table they made some token effort to clean it up. When we tried to mop up the mess with our cloth napkins a bus boy was nice enough to drop off a stack of terry cloth towels with the advice that “these should work better for you.”
Since Lee Roy Selmon’s bills itself as a sort of sports bar it should have been a clue that it wasn’t going to be all that good when the place was half empty on the night of the BCS Championship game.
All and all this was not an All-American effort.
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