Costa’s Famous Bar-B-Que

Can’t figure out what issues other customers have regarding the service and the food, since I’m treated with respect from employees and the food always been good every time I’ve eating here. The employee at the drive thru were professional and they don’t mind adding another slab of ribs to your meal, since some BBQ restaurant won’t give you that option to do. Plus, it’s more money they’re receiving from the customers for there business. There ribs fall off the bone and they serve original potato salad (which I prefer) and not the yellow mustard kind. My macaroni and cheese was good, but it just needed more cheese to make it better. Overall, my experience at Costa always been on a good note through out the years coming here.

This is the absolute nastiest barbecue in the world of barbecue the sauce did not even help the ribs the cornbread taste like cardboard and how can you mess up collard greens I don’t know, I would not recommend this place to anyone

I really enjoy the fact that they have a drive thru as it’s usually just me. I’m disabled & some times, more times than not, I’m in pain. Therefore I love the drive thru. I enjoy their Bar B Q chicken sandwiches & fries. The service is friendly & evidently a lot of people love it as much as I do. I always see quite a few cars in the parking lot & I have to get in line @ the drive thru. But I don’t mind as the line is never slow.
As a matter of fact I’ll be going up there in a lil while & get me something for lunch & supper! :-)

Still doesn’t care enough to update menu online and STILL very rude.
Act as if you are taking up their time talking to each other and like they don’t care for or need my business. Doesn’t even rank one star. When you have rude idiots greeting your customers, it doesn’t matter how good your food is, you suck. I stay within a block of this wanna be BBQ joint and would rather travel an hour to eat than patronize this joke.

This place is a southern BBQ institution. I’ve been eating here since the mid ’80’s. It’s still a bit like going back in time. You slow down and your blood pressure drops just walking in the door.
This is real smoked BBQ, super tender and flavorful meat, fantastic classic southern sides, and sweet ice tea.
Have lunch at Costa’s and everyone you meet the rest of the day will know you had BBQ for lunch, they can smell the real smoke on you all day.
Sauces are very good, too. You used to be able to get the sauce in several stores around town, not sure if you still can or not but I pick up few bottles and bring them home to Maryland when I see them.
There’s lot’s of good BBQ in the Birmingham area, some old fashion, like Costa’s, some fancy new places with no soul. Have the real deal, go to Costa’s.

Costas coastas costas… oh where do i began… hmmm… um… its in a good location! um the building is red… umm… errr… Okay. Let me stop acting crazy. Okay I ordered a salad with chopped chicken. It was alooooot of food. Goood healthy portions. I also ordered the ½ of chicken, dark meat… I got two leg quarters, cole slaw and corn on the cob. The chicken was covered in their famous sauce, but it wasnt hot, they couldve at least fooled me and threw it in the microwave… I never been inside costas, but I have went inside the building when it was Wing out.(springvilleRoad)Yeah the worker, had on a crazy looking off the shoulder shirt, I was like errr i ordered two c cups breasts, i meant to leg quarters! The Corn had a little burned spot on it, but maybe thats the new style of cooking corn. a special touch? the coleslaw was just regular coleslaw. But I would come back for the salad tho!

Ate here today. Had a pork sandwich special. (Outside chopped) with fries and tea. The tea was standard southern. The fries were standard crinkle cuts but the sandwich was incredibly good. Plenty of smoke flavor on a very fresh bun with just the right amount of sauce. It’s not Jim N’ Nicks (but no one else is) but it’s also not Jim N’ Nicks pricing. I’ll be back for cheap lunch regularly.
Sandwich, fries and drink were 5.95. A bargain when compared to Jim N’ Nicks, Full Moon, etc.

Okay… let’s clear this up… The Costa’s in Trussville is closed. This location on Old Springville Road closed for a while but is now reopened. I have always loved this location of Costa’s and always found it better than the new-​fangled location in Trussville. If you love ribs, then this is your place. Always consistant… big meaty, well cooked ribs with a sauce that is outstanding. Sides are excellent and plentiful. Service is hit and miss but generally the sterotypical, southern waitress who calls you «Honey.»

This location is now closed, but these reviews also apply to the Trussville location. Used to be a decent barbecue joint, but now the food is mediocre at best, disgusting at worst, and overpriced. The staff are teenagers that don’t care a thing about the customers, and the management are too busy sitting around at the bar making passes at leathery old barflys and buying big screen TVs and cigar humidors (what the hell? it’s a barbecue place) to worry about whether or not the customers are satisfied.
Pass this place — eat at the Burger King across the street if you have to.

This place is very mediocre at best. I especially get annoyed when they charge you $ 2 for tea and it tastes like water. I would pass on this joint.

Over-​priced.. . Salty.. .. Craaaaap waiter.. . I think we only went because someone had coupons *rolls eyes*.. And while we had a party of over 20 people and everyone was in a bad mood (funeral) it was the middle of the day and we were the only 20 people in the place.. I think they could’ve spared us a second server.
My salad was all kinds of wilty. .
Just bleh, dude.