Mot’s Pit Cooked Barbeque

Yuck.
Dry Flaky meat, if it wasn’t for sauce it would have choked me
Slaw was frozen and had ice bits in it. And max n cheese ha absolutely no flavor.

The only reason I’m giving it a 4 star rating is because the pork was dry, but it’s flavor was really good. I liked their bbq sauce and asked for extra (I like to mix my sauces). Sweet tea and banana pudding was on point! We will go here again!

Excellent Food and a wonderful environment. It’s exactly what you think of when you think of a southern bbq place: No frills, just great food and good people. Everything is fresh and made on-​premises. Definitely the best pork in town.

Nothing worth remembering. Staff was polite. Macaroni and cheese was bland. Chopped pork sandwich was cold. Baked beans were not that great either. I was looking forward to some sweet tea and even that was almost tasteless. Definitely a lot of room for improvement is the best way to describe my experience.

This place is just not good.
I’ll never judge a BBQ place based on appearances. You’ll never find a good place if you do. That being said, this place looks like it might be good from the outside. A fairly neglected and run-​down exterior and interior led me to believe that the folks here focus all of their effort on the food. Sadly, that’s simply not the case here at Mot’s.
I visited for lunch on a weekday around 11. I actually attempted to go to the Korean BBQ place next door but I found out at their door that it has terrible evening-​only hours. So, I went to the next closest restaurant. A quick look around inside and it seated a handful of your typical blue collar types sitting around dinged up tables adorned with paper towel rolls. The place looked clean and had the common Luzianne tea dispensers next to a Pespsi soda fountain. On a small table next to that was a collection of barbecue sauces, hot sauces and plasticware.
The menu has chicken, pork and ribs along with a bunch of fixed sides and a board with rotational sides and specials. I decided on the chicken and pork dinner combo plate. It seems the main part of the menu BBQ sandwiches. The plate comes with 2 sides and something called hash over rice. Oddly, the young man who prepared the meat whacked away at something I couldn’t see. Shortly after my plate was completed I saw what all the chopping was for: they chop their offerings up into little bits before plating. You’re asked if you want sauce and since I wasn’t sure what anything tasted like, I asked for mild. For sides I had collards and coleslaw and the whole thing is served with a hamburger bun cut in half. From the looks of the other patrons, the sandwiches are served on the same buns.
I grabbed some pepper vinegar sauce and filled my ice cup with sweet tea and sat down to dig in. The pork I had had no fat or bark on it. Not much smoke and not much flavor either. The chicken was a little better but not by much and the sauce didn’t lend much of anything discernible, either. Hash, in this place anyway, is like scraps of meat pureed with sauce and the whole thing tastes like a semi-​sweet Chef Boyardee ravioli mush dumped on Uncle Ben’s instant rice. The collards were old, thick greens that were undercooked and tough but the flavor was pretty spot on. The sad part? The tea, coleslaw and hamburger bun were the highlight of the meal. Obviously, I’ll never go back. When I told everyone at work about my experience, none had even heard of the place. The search for decent barbecue in Augusta continues since I compare all BBQ to the Circle M in Eastland, TX which served the best ‘cue I’ve ever had in my life.
One thing that I observed while people watching for the hour I lingered and choked down the grub was that not a single non-​white person entered the premises. I don’t know if that means anything and it didn’t influence my review one way or the other but I did find it interesting.
Long story short, don’t bother.

I love BBQ. I did not love, or even like Mots BBQ. The fact that you couldn’t smell the open pit BBQ pulling in, or even inside the restaurant should have been the first indication. The Hash and Rice was very odd, it was like they put the left over BBQ and tomato sauce in a blender, and I’m not sure it was supposed to be served cold. The chopped pork had no flavor at all (or should I say good flavor). My plate had a puddle of water from the meat, water– like dish water, not juice.
I give 2 stars for the sweet tea and macaroni & cheese which were all I ended up having.

If I could choose 1.5 stars I would. For the good, the tea is good and the Mac and cheese is ok. The bad: the hash and rice is like chef boyardee that went through a blender. The bbq pork was chopped which was fine, but it was watery like it has been frozen at some point and then thawed. All in all the food was very bland with no flavor even after adding lots of salt and pepper. The sauces were ok but nothing special. If you are looking for that really good summer time smell good BBQ, this is not it.

To be quite honest, not the best bbq I’ve ever had. The meat was dry and chopped. I don’t know why places chop their meat versus pulling. Chopping the meat causes all of the juices to run out thus made this particular pork dry and seemingly tasteless. The atmosphere was good and the folks who were working seemed very friendly.

Best Bar-​b-​que in the Augusta Area!

Meat is tasty (though I’m not convinced it’s «pit cooked») on its own and better with any of the 3 sauces they offer. I like that they have hash & rice instead of Brunswick stew — I think that’s a regional thing? — they have a variety of sides which are all pretty good, the fries can sometimes be a little undercooked, but if you ask them for «well done» fries they are happy to oblige. Nothing fancy about the inside, but it’s clean and that’s really more important to me! We’ve been regulars since they opened and even though we’ve tried the newcomers, we keep coming back to what we consider the best bbq in Augusta!

Juicy meat (chopped, not pulled). Sauces on the bland side. Prices slightly high for the quantity of food.

Don’t be turned off by the way it looks. Food is pretty good.

Trying to locate one place, instead I stumbled upon Mot’s. It was July 4^th and they were serving cafeteria style rather than the usual counter service. For city barbeque, this wasn’t bad. Not great or fantastic, but again, for being in a city it was nice.
They serve ribs and chicken but I went for my usual pulled pork and stew. Being so close to South Carolina, they prepare things differently around these parts. And while it wasn’t mustard based like you can find in Carolina, they didn’t offer me Brunswick Stew like we do in much of Georgia. Instead they had hash (looks like Brunswick Stew, but doesn’t have all the ingredients of the stew) and serve it over rice, just plain weird to those of us who would never associate rice with our stew.
Mine was perfectly fine, but I prefer the way I grew up, Brunswick Stew and not with rice. The pulled pork was decent. It could have been fresher, but perhaps it was due to the fact they were serving in bulk for the holiday crowd. It definitely needed spicing up with any of their 3 sauces (mild, hot, sweet) and I ended up covering mine with sauce — unusual for me as I normally only use a little. The meat, without the sauce, was just about as close to tasteless as it could get for fresh meat. My potato salad and peas were good sides. The tea was fine.
I would not go out of my way for Mot’s, but like I said, for a joint like this to be in the city scores points.