Bandana’s Bar-B Q

Good service, great BBQ!
The portions here are on point and the meat
Is cooked the right way!
We will be back!!!

This is a go to for us when we want smoked BBQ! Its always been great and at more than one location too (we have also used the Maryland Heights, MO location before). My dad comes to town and loves the ribs and so we have to get it. I personally enjoy the beef sandwich and I love the KC sauce or the St. Louis sauce on that. I know its a chain but I have not ever been disappointed. There are other places to get BBQ but I love how I can order it and its ready in 10 minutes for me to pick up. I have also dined in and I have never had a bad experience when we sit down. My hubby loves the tea there and I usually get a soda. Hubby gets the Turkey sandwich a lot, so I assume its pretty good. The ribs are the way i like them with a rub that is good enough to skip the bbq sauce. The Brunswick stew is a great side if you like veggies and bits of smoked meat in there. When we got it to go, they provided us with plates and napkins and utensils and tons of BBQ sauce upon hearing we would eat picnic style at the park. That was pretty awesome.

Great barbecue, delicious sides to choose from including French fries, BBQ baked beans, baked potato, etc. a variety of sauces are at your disposal right at the table!

The best bbq at the best prices. The portions are large, very large. Great place for kids. The pork platter is great every time. They have a great selection of sauces and I try every sauce when I’m there. I’ve been coming to Bandana’s for over a decade, and look forward to my next visit. Do not discount Bandana’s just because it’s a chain. The food is really good, and is worth your time.

My partner and I ate at this location this evening. Our service was fantastic, our server was polite, friendly, and very punctual. Our dinner started with chicken strips as an appetizer. There were 4, they were a little small, but they were VERY good. They were extremely hot and obviously very fresh. The breading didn’t overwhelm the chicken and the chicken was very moist. It came with some chips and we chose ranch to dip.
My meal was buffalo chicken strips (6), cole slaw, fries, and their garlic bread which I love. My partner chose turkey, cole slaw, potato salad, and garlic bread. The meal came out quickly, but not before we had time to finish the chicken.
I wasn’t very hungry so I only ate half of the buffalo strips, but they were just as good as the regular ones we had for our appetizer. They were coated in sauce, but not dripping which I prefer — it’s a pet peeve of mine for them to come out swimming in sauce. I found the sauce a little hotter than I prefer; but that’s a minor nitpick as they were very good. The cole slaw was good — not «great», the fries were typical, and the garlic bread was great as always.
My partner loved all of her food; and helped me finish my chicken and concurred with me that it was very good. Our server kept our drinks full and checked on us enough to ensure everything was going well; but not so much as to be intrusive. Often that’s a fine line that a server can’t seem to balance; but she did it well.
For those that want to compare it to say Pappy’s — well I believe Pappy’s is a single restaurant that is consistently is among the best in the area if not the country and Bandana’s is a chain. It’s not really an apples to apples comparison for me. I’m not saying Bandana’s shouldn’t strive to be as good as a place such as Pappy’s, but I also personally don’t expect them to be either — it’s the nature of a chain restaurant. Now that being said I do think they are a touch overpriced in comparison to places such as Pappy’s, but that «is what it is». So to each their own.
All in all we were pleased and will be back.

My favorite place to go to for BBQ. The lunch plates are a good value. I almost always order the BBQ baked potato. Variety of sauces to try. They serve a great sweet tea which is hard to find in the northern states.
Cute atmosphere in all of locations that I have been too. There are several to visit in Missouri.

Smell that smoke is there logo. It really does make you Hungary. Beef and pork platter is my favorite. With there five BBQ sauces you can’t go wrong. At 106 degree’s out side the beer tastes refreshing. They have a benefits card now that just made my day.

I went to Bandana’s a few days ago for lunch. I was taking a training seminar class for work out near highways 94 and 40 and our instructor decided to take us here for lunch (yes, he’s an awesome guy!)
The food was very much just «A-​OK’ in my book. Nothing about it was very exciting to me at all. The Shaved Duck has FAR better BBQ in my book, and even Pappy’s does and I am not that crazy about Pappy’s either. I guess I am not a BBQ person so to speak, but there is something about the Shaved Duck that gets my pants, I mean, my mouth, wet!
Our waitress was kind of old and she was soft-​spoken and hard to hear but she was very prompt and friendly, so no issues there.
I think if the chicken I had ordered wasn’t so damn tough and dried out, I would have liked it more. My sides were coleslaw and fried corn. The coleslaw was «okay» and the fried corn was cold. WTF. Cold fried corn? Ew. Pappy’s has better fried corn.
BUT this entire meal was on our instructor so I wasn’t going to complain. It wasn’t terrible, just not my cup of tea. I’d only go back if I was in the area and was starved and nothing else sounded good/​was open.
BTW they have Fitz’s here so A+ for that!
OH and they list the calories in each item on the menu BRILLIANT! I love that. It helped me to make an educatedly-​healthy choice!

A few years back I missed out on my cousin’s wedding, which was catered by Bandana’s. I only heard wonderful things about the food, so imagine how bummed I was to miss out on everything. Fast forward to this year when visiting my brother & his family, he suggested we go there!
I haven’t had bbq in ages so this *really* hit the spot. A new deal they have going on is a smaller sized portion of their regular entrees. For like $ 5! We all tried several different meats. I got the pork and was thrilled. I loved the different sauces they present in a little caddy. My favorite was the smokey sauce.
3oz delicious meatz, a chunk of garlic bread, and your choice of two sides for only five bucks. Perfectly sized meal so you’re not feeling gross afterwards. The staff was mostly teens, but they were really great with getting our drinks out and constantly refilled. We had a really great time and I can’t wait to go back for more MEAT! :D

Well, even though they have quite a few locations, that doesn’t make up for the mediocre food. A bbq joint with no babybacks? That should tell you enough right there!

Decent BBQ, good if nothing else is open and you need a fix. It’s a chain, and it shows. I was more up on this place before I got food poisoning from the coleslaw last year. Big portions, garlic bread is delish. Not a fan of the corn — kind of burnt every time. Five different sauces to choose from, so there’s something for everyone.

Always been a favorite.
After two years, I returned from California back to my home state. Nowhere in the land of organics had I found true smoked barbecue that nears Bandana’s. Nowhere. The apple wood smoke is fantastic on ribs, chicken, and beef. The meat melts in your mouth while the flavor dances on your tongue.
Other favorites; corn on the cob for the extra .99 and their garlic bread. The service has always been better than par.

Not impressed. Poor service and BBQ was below standards.