Riscky’s Barbeque

It’s average I usually come for lunch when I’m on the run. My french fries were super salty today but my okara was super delicious. Staff is okay they atleast know what they are doing!!!

Three star BBQ and a star for the ambience.
Chopped and fries was all I expected it to be. Their unique sauce mixed with all the good parts of brisket I love. Pickles and mustard and onions and you’ve got the national meal of TX. Fries were real, skin on cut and thin and crispy. The kind I dig. Cold drinks. And the building. Nestled in a quaint little downtown area. Checked table cloths. No yuppies. No Stock Show crowds.
Go visit.

Best BBQ in Fort Worth!
I love this place. It’s a few blocks from where I grew up, even though I have traveled the world since (including Lockhart & Austin, TX, which I consider #1 in the world for BBQ.) I have to admit that I always get the same thing: rib basket with fries and a sweet tea. It is obvious that the ribs were smoked over a long period of time, because of the outside char plus the consistency and juiciness of the rib meat. I tend to not even need BBQ sauce for these delicious ribs.

This location doesn’t seem to get as much love as the others… maybe because it is not in the greatest neighborhood. Who knows? I picked it BECAUSE it looked like it wasn’t in a hip neighborhood and it might be possible to park there at lunch time on a Friday without too much fuss. And I was right, they had a parking lot, and it had space in it. Success!
But what about the food, you ask? What’s the use of parking if the food is crappy? Well, the food is not crappy. My love and I each ordered the «Giant Beef Rib Special» which comes with 5 beef ribs and fries for $ 6.99. You can’t beat that with a stick. It also comes with buttered and toasted Texas toast (not a half-​hearted sad and nearly soggy slice of white bread like most places give you), a pickle spear and some sliced onion. Not knowing how much food they would give me for a measly $ 7, we also ordered sides — one small macaroni salad (well, I ordered potato salad but they gave me macaroni salad) and one small side of pinto beans. I didn’t correct them on their mistake because I figured, if the BBQ was good I could try the potato salad next time.
This was a LOT of food. I ate 4 out of 5 ribs, a little over half the fries and about half the macaroni salad and I was stuffed. Dear Honey ate about the same amount of his meal.
The ribs were not the best that I have had (that honor goes to Saltlick BBQ which is down near Austin and way too far to drive for lunch) but they were decent. The BBQ sauce is surprisingly sweet but I liked it. The fries were good, fresh, seasoned with salt and pepper and fried just right. The macaroni salad was homemade and fresh and didn’t have the rancid storebought macaroni salad taste, I quite liked it even though I really didn’t have room for it in the tummeh. I took a bite of the beans, they were ok, but nothing exciting.
We packed a to-​go box with the two left over ribs and leftover macaroni salad — this will make a nice ‘normal’ sized lunch for me sometime soon.
Their regular prices are quite good as well — $ 3.99 for various sandwiches, most of the meat plates $ 7.99 or $ 8.99, and amazingly cheap family packs. We could bring the kids here on a weekend and probably get out for under $ 30 if we share sides and they order sandwiches as they are usually wont to do.
This was a great find!

Riscky’s Barbecue has been around all my life and when I was in high school I eat there a couple of time’s a week.
I remember when Pete Riscky was a live and when he died, back then it was 5 chopped B.B.Q sandwishs for a dollar, my friends and I would pool our money for those 5 sandwishs, drinks and a big bag of chips, go back to school and set on the grass and eat, but when it was cold sometimes we would saddle up to the make shift bar they had and eat with the old man & leason to there store’s!
you had to be careful the old cashier she wasn’t so nice, she ran us out alot untel the nest time we where in there. I have a lot of happy times there I eat alot of chopped bbq sandwish’s & those little pecan pie’s.
But I am sorry to say all thing change!
the last time I was in there the chopped had a little to much fat in it, it just wasn’t as good as it use to be!
the service was friendly and helpful, But I have had better and it saddens me to say so about the place, I steel go back from time to time, I have a diet dr pepper but I pass on the food…