Famous Dave’s

Love the food, please tell your truck driver to not plug up the fast lane on on the 101. Nothing bad about the food just inconsiderate driver getting passed in the fast lane.

We love this location, and get takeout here pretty regularly. Everybody is always very friendly and helpful, and I have personally never had a bad experience or meal.
We took a friend here for dinner a while back, and he was upset that his rib tips were fatty. He had never had them before, and he didn’t understand (even though I warned him) that’s what rib tips are supposed to be. Anyway, instead of brushing him off, the managers replaced his meal with something else without missing a beat. They made sure he was happy with his meal. I was impressed.

My friend and I had a lunchtime craving for some brisket. We both had the one meat platter and chose the Texas brisket. I had the side of garlic mashed potatoes and my friend had the potato salad. The cornbread muffin that accompanied the platter was moist and tasty. The one meat platter was $ 8.97. The meat was tender and needed very little bbq sauce (you have your choice of 5 different types of sauces). I especially liked the red skinned mashed potatoes. Real bits of mild garlic gave them a pleasing punch.
Our server was super nice. The place looked clean. There are both table and chairs and booths for seating. We got a sandwich to-​go for my friend’s husband and it arrived freshly prepared as we payed the bill. Parking is close to the door.
Yeh, it is a chain, but Famous Dave’s does it well. The bonus is that it is a sit down place. For my mobility impaired friend this is the way to go over cafeteria style serving lines found in many bbq restaurants.

There is a magic hour for BBQ, and if you happen to show up during that time, you will be wowed and amazed with delicious and moist sliced Texas brisket. Some times the product is absolutely better than others. I went around 5pm yesterday, and it was sheer perfection.
The Texas brisket plate comes with sliced brisket atop a slice of white bread, 2 sides of your choosing, and a corn muffin which I am not fond of. zTejas makes my favorite corn bread, served in a skillet with sweet butter.
The sides I like are cob corn and grilled pineapple steaks. The broccoli is pretty good too, as is the wilbur beans, which have scraps of brisket in them (not vegetarian)
I’ve tried one of the desserts, their Dave’s Famous Bread Pudding, and it is spectacular, with a praline sauce pecans beg to float in, golden raisins, an oversized mound of sweet whipped cream and a large scoop of vanilla ice cream. If you want to get this $ 6.49 dessert for free, simply take the survey on your receipt, write down the code, and bring it back with you on your return visit.

Meats dry, French fries were dry… everything was just dry. Although to make up for the incredibly dry foods, their chili is some of the best chili I’ve ever had! The manager was super nice and friendly.
I really wanted to «like» the food here because it’s popular, but I can’t… I’m too huge of a BBQ fan to give this place 5 stars

I used to love coming to this place, but their food this past couple of visits has been less than great. I have no idea if there is new staff or they are cutting cost buying cheaper meat or what, but you can tell, last night we bought the all american feast for our family and the ribs were just weird tasting, the brisket dry and the wings overcooked. This is the second time we get dry brisket. For the $$$ we spent, I wish it would have been a better dinner.

My first time having burnt ends was great! went for lunch only downside you couldn’t add burnt ends on 2 meat combo had to order as appetizer

Very relaxing, enjoyable birthday lunch with mom and dad and my two sons. We had a variety of meals from the lunch menu plus an order of burnt ends. All of it was good, but the burnt ends were heavenly.

Got the family platter for me wife and three kids. Was plenty of food. Loved he corn brisket was good he chicken and ribs were not on same level. The price was good and we took some home.

Not bad, not great, excellent service. Ribs were over cooked, burnt ends were tasty but a lot of pure fat pieces (supposed to trim some of that fat boys and girls). Good mix of different sauces. And I do not care what anyone says you DO NOT put f*cking corn in Mac ‘N Cheese, pure cardinal sin. Beans were somewhat lack luster too. Good for a BBQ quick fix, but nothing outstanding.

I love when a restaurant has unique items. We ordered the burnt ends as an appy, and they were melt in your mouth good. I loved that it arrived with spicy sweet pickles, an onion slaw and BBQ potato chips. A great touch.
I ordered the BBQ Chicken Salad. I know. who does that? But I love salad, and it was a winner. My husband had the chicken dinner and it was delish.

It was incredible. But literally… incredible. I haven’t been there since my high school days and I’ll tell you it has improved like a fine wine.
The waitress was beyond helpful. More like a bbq sommelier. extremely nice with a motherly love. I’m embarrassed to say that I have forgotten the waitresses name because of my procrastination. If you are reading this Famous *******, know that I’ll be back for some bbq loving.

Hold on to your spare ribs because there is major competition for delicious BBQ in the Chandler/​Ahwatukee region. Famous Dave’s is one of three different chains which I rate quite highly around here. Great meat, great sauces, and great sides. So what’s the difference? Famous Dave’s is more of a sit-​down place than most of the other options, which offer more of a cafeteria-​style situation. This has its benefits, as the service is good, and the atmosphere is a step up, but you’ll pay slightly more than you might at Rudy’s or another BBQ joint. Still — 4 stars, and this is a great place to come for lunch specials.

This place has amazing food. We always come here for a special occasion when there’s a lot of people and always order their family style dinners for like 80 dollars and we always have left overs too! Their servers are professional and very nice. They don’t get mad or ticked off when asking them questions. The food is great as well, they always come out fresh and delicious every time.

This was our first time here!!! I will not be going back! My son and I both had bones in our pulled chicken sandwiches. This was not a pleasant experience. I usually don’t write negative reviews but I’m very concerned for young children due to the choking hazard this presents. Check your sandwiches before you sink your teeth into them.

This place was quiet nice to try some ribs. I had to wait about 10 mins, but it was worth it.
I tried Baby Back Ribs and it was awesome! I think if you like ribs, you have to go to this place. Service was nice, and I liked complimentary potato chips.
They provide 5 kinds of sauces and I tried all of them — personally, Sweet&Zesty was my favorite.
I could chose 4 side menus, and Famous Fries were great. Also, coleslaws and Garlic mashed Potatoes were also good.
Plus, their service was also nice and kind.
In overall, it was really nice restaurant to have ribs.

Came here to eat after finding out therestaurant we wanted to eat at had a two hour wait forthe size of our party… And they had about a ten min wait here. We have tried the location 202 and Dobson and we were pleased with our experience there so I was pretty excited to try this place again.
If you look at my old reviews, I wrote one for the other location.
Anyways… I was blown away by the Texas Beef Brisket from the other location and I readily ordered it for dinner… But boy did I get an almost rude awakening.
I received a huge portion of meat which is good but oh man, the meat was dry :(it made me so sad… The one i had before was so tender that it melted in my mouth and made me sad to finish eating it… But at this location… I didn’t even eathalf of it… Sad sad sad
The flavor was good butits really just the meat texture that was unsatisfactory… I wonder if its the location? Do they make their meat differently? Or wasit a fluke that we got dry pieces? My manand my sister both got the same thing from our previousexperience but were also both disappointed… Or was it fluke that we got a mouth watering dish at the other location… The world will never know…
Jk! I wanna go back to the Dobson one and give it another try… It was just too good
On the brightside, service was good. Garlic mashed potatoes are delish the coleslaw was also good. My parents split the Feast for One and it was more than enough!

Pretty good for being a chain BBQ place. Aside from it getting pretty busy (which I guess is a good thing) I have never had a bad experience.
The service is always great, very friendly and helpful. The bbq is also excellent. I love everything from the rib tips to the wings. The brisket can be a little dry at times so just a heads up. I usually always get the pulled pork and some spare ribs. Love the corn bread muffins.
Also if you like a good spicy BBQ sauce. Try mixing the Devils Spit with the Texas Pit. Definitely a must for me when I go here.
I also love that they are still one of the few places that give Vets a free meal on Veterans Day. Give to the community and the community returns in kind. Can’t say that about many chain restaurants.

My family and I just ate dinner here. It was my second time (hardly remember my first time was in Vegas) for my family was their first food trip here.
Our appetizers were the Nachos & Onion Strings. And for the main course — We ordered the dinner for two. It had chicken, cole slaw, spare ribs, beans, corn bread, sauce and fries.
The waitress gave us chips to munch on while waiting for our appetizers. It was good!
The apps came 15 mins later (which we got full) because our main course meal came in 40 mins later. Everything was good, but waiting and getting full because of the apps, we could have gotten our food and not waiting on it. It was not that busy.
But the waitress gave me a refill of Dr. Pepper without me asking and she was really helpful coming back to ask how we were doing.
We had dessert, the brownie! It was a big portion, so shareable (if you’d share because my sisters didn’t want to share lol). It was ok not that sweet (I like it sweet though).

Went here for lunch on a week day with my co-​workers for a team lunch. I was really looking forward to this places and I love BBQ. When I first walk in you can really tell its a BBQ restaurant. Very county looking with cartoon pigs. Seems very inviting.
They start you off with a bowl of bbq chips. Seemed like these were homemade cause each one was different shapes and sizes. Pretty good I must say.
I had the lunch special brisket sandwich with a side of Mac and Cheese. They pile on a good portion of brisket and looked really good. They have so many different BBQ sauces at the table. I tried the Sweet & something (forgot the name) sauce. So I dumped a lot of sauce on it. Wasn’t sure why but then realized the brisket looked a little too dry. I thought the brisket sandwich was okay. Not great. Could have been better but good. The Mac & Cheese was okay. It had Jalapenos and corn in it. Nice little kick but not a lot of taste. Little disappointed cause I was expecting a little more from a bbq place.
The service was really good. Welcomed us quickly and got our drinks out fairly quickly. We got our food pretty quickly for being a big party. They also cleaned off our dirty plates in a timely manner. So service was friendly and efficient.
So overall, I thought the food was okay. I’ve tasted better. I thought Rudy’s brisket is moister but I did like the choices of BBQ sauces. Loved their service. So if I had a craving for bbq would I come back. Maybe. It wouldn’t be a bad choice but I would probably pick Rudy’s over Dave’s. Just a personal taste. Personal choice. If you do come here. Enjoy.