Big Baldy’s Bac-Woods Bar-B-Q

Average might be the best way to describe this place. Poppers were frozen kind with a strange after taste. The brisket was tender, but lacked any smoke flavor. Beans were ok. Best part of meal may have been the potato salad which I loved, you better like extra pickle juice.

Well don’t eat here. The coleslaw was horribly overdressed, the potatoes salad was more like pickle salad and the ribs were so mushy even the bones fell apart. I had shrimp tacos. It was not shrimp it was chicken. The cook may not know the difference but I do.

My wife and I used to eat here often. They had large portions with allot of meat. Now they have large portions with hardly any meat. I ate there about a month ago and had a serious stomach ache shortly after. Wasn’t sure if it was the food, so we went back tonight. I can tell you now, it was the food. I don’t recommend eating here.

One of my favorite places to eat. Friendly staff and GREAT food. You simply can’t go wrong here folks !!!

Travel for work. Finally stopped in to try it out; glad I did. Place is nice, service was great, fair price, good portioned quality BBQ. I’ll stop back when I come through the state next time…

Great food. People are friendly. Reasonably priced! Great place to eat. I had the combo platter and it was very good, and proportioned properly.

Being my first time in Missouri, I didn’t know where to go for great BBQ. I drove by this place on Highway 60, just across from where I was staying, and thought that it might be at least an average place. I walked in for lunch and it wasn’t busy at all. Just another couple waiting for their food. It’s a pretty nice place with two large aquariums and enough seating for people with a bunch of cowboy paraphernalia on the wall.
I checked the menu behind the registers and it had the regular BBQ fair, but since I’m ordering it to go, I decided to buy just the spare ribs. I ordered two, just in case it was good… I mean, c’mon, you can’t go wrong with spare ribs, right???
Wrong!
The spare ribs tasted worst than eating boiled squirrel with the skin after the fur was burnt off. I don’t know how they made it, but it smelled like it was soaking in a water bath after it came off the grill. It tasted of a mix of boiled and grilled pork. It also had a smoky odor to it, which made it even worst. More evidence of the water bath was the to-​go box had a lot of water on the bottom. My brother ended up accidentally tipping the box in his car and it stunk up his car for a couple of hours.
At the end, we ended up only eating 3 pieces because we were so hungry. The rest we tossed out.
I usually don’t regret spending money on food I’ve never had before, even when I don’t like it, but I really felt sorry I did this time. I also felt sorry for the swine that got slaughtered for the two racks I ordered. Such a waste of two potentially good racks.

It’s okay. It’s not Rudy’s by a far stretch, but it beats eating fast food. It’s a good place to eat in Monett, MO.