Famous Dave’s Bar-B Que

It’s been a while since I’ve been in to any Famous Daves, let alone this location. Used to get a lot of take out from here until one night when everything from this location was awful, either way too salty, gristley or just plain inedible.
For this review I will compare this visit to the better days, when I really enjoyed Daves food.
This is a lunch review, I got the chopped pork sandwich with a side (baked beans). The meat should have had a velvety feel to it but instead consisted of a lot of fatty parts with the meat. If the pork had been well cooked it would have been able to be pulled instead of chopped, which lead to the pockets of fat. Proper treatment of a pork butt would make all the fat melt into the meat along with the cartilege. Didn’t happen here. I also heard someone at the table next to me talk about how fatty their meat was.
The bun was nothing to speak of. It had no character, no flavor.
The beans were alright but could have benefitted from some more time with some smokey pork.
The devils spit sauce had almost no bite to it and has gotten way too sweet. If I choose a sauce that is supposed to be hot, it should be hot.
The pickle chips on the plate were decent but nothing about them added to the experience.
Dave’s had a good product a while ago. Now it is if they are trying to be all things to all people and succeeding at none of it.
This isn’t the New Jersey Turnpike where Dave’s has a location and they need to differentiate their product not try to mainline it.
And kill the high fructose corn syrup in the BBQ sauce, it is killing the sauce.

Don’t let this Famous Dave’s odd location fool you. They are always busy, lunch or dinner.
Great food, friendly staff. Clean restroom.