Roots BBQ

Found this great place because of Unilocal.If using GPS, it is off the side street behind the address listed above. Service was good but the brisket was awesome. I am from Texas and I love BBQ, definitely in the top five for good brisket. Staying in area for a week and want to try their ribs. Coleslaw good as well but didn’t care for the beans. If you like good BBQ then this is the place.

Oh so delicious!!! So far I have had the brisket, pulled pork and ribs. All three are a must have. And don’t forget the BBQ sauce. They have a hot sauce and a tangy sauce; no matter which one you choose you chose well. Wish they sold the sauce.

I ate here twice today. Seriously. .twice! This is the most amazing little hidden away treasure ever. Most mouth watering, tender, smoky, melt in your mouth brisket on the planet. I’m from Texas and I know my Q. Outstanding!!!

Tasty BBQ and great folks. Glad we got to it before the end of summer. Hit it in 2016!!! i

Owned by the folks from the Roslyn café, these guys do an awesome job with the BBQ. We’ve had everything and it’s all really good!

Great outdoor BBQ picnic place. It is NOT in Cle Elum. It’s in Roslyn behind the Roslyn Café (no affiliation with the Café!)

No need for a lengthy review, but I know good BBQ from bad, and this place is spot on. A great addition to Roslyn, one of the coolest little towns you’ll find.

We stopped and shared a brisket sandwich yesterday. It was so delicious we ordered a pound of brisket to go! Amazing flavor and so good. We will for sure be making this a regular place for us when we come to Ronald!

I love this place! This is the most legit bbq in the upper county. These guys and gals do it up right. No fake bbq here. I was very impressed, I liked everything about it. The atmosphere was great and the food as fresh and authentic as bbq gets. I had the sampler platter and is was everything I expected and a little more. Thanks for the great dinning experience Roots Bbq. I will definitely be back real soon! The food is very reasonably priced also! Jackpot!

First off I am no slouch when it comes to some BBQ. I am very hard to please when it comes to BBQ. I will say this place does it right. Very right! I had the ribs and a brisket sandwich. Brisket is very tough to get right it gets dry very easy. The pitmaster here knows this and his brisket is as close to perfect as I have has anywhere. The ribs were also really good full of smoke flavor. Now for the kicker. I hate BBQ places that serve their meats smothered in sauce. Well that wont happen here. The sauce is at the table.
It is the best BBQ in the NW there is nothing in the Seattle area that can compare either. Go now and make your belly happy.

Got a chance today to try out the new BBQ place in Roslyn, and I was not dissapointed. This is BBQ done right, I especially like the spare ribs that elicited a wow from me after the first bite. I like the setup where everything is right in front of you. The smoker was right there for all to see and you could watch the Pitmaster Cody pull the meat right off the smoker. A job well done, keep up the good work.

I’m a big BBQ fan and a pretty good critic. Tried «Roots» tonight and had a very good meal. Here’s the run down.
The place is basically a small outdoor courtyard. It’s actually really well done with an appropriate level of funk. Tables with umbrellas. It will be hot when it’s hot out, but I really liked the feel of being outdoors for a summer BBQ. The smoker is right there to see (look at my pictures). «-A» grade for the setting, but you have to like casual BBQ and the outdoors. Plates are a piece of butcher paper.
We had the brisket, ribs, beans, coleslaw, and collard greens. Note that this place — like most good BBQ places — is a bit expensive. Meat is sold by the pound or as a sandwich. Our meal of #1 ribs, 1# brisket, two small sides, one large side, plus three drinks was over $ 53. It fed four people, but the portions on the sides were –IMHO — a bit small.
Brisket: Amazing! The best brisket I’ve had in the Northwest. Great bark, cooked perfectly and not dried out, just the right amount of smoke, sliced thick. +A! I could have eaten this till I expired. This alone is worth the trip.
Ribs: Very good. St. Louis style ribs. Again, cooked perfectly with a good bark and just enough smoke. They are dry rubbed and my wife found the rub had too much pepper for her. They have a very good BBQ sauce and a little on the ribs works great. Our ribs a bit fatty, but I know rib slabs vary as to quality, so no complains. +B
Coleslaw: Good. Crisp and fresh. Just better than average. B grade. I do think the size of a large side was a bit small (see picture)
Collard Greens: I hate collard greens, but I know some folks love them. A customer leaving as we got there said they were the best he ever had. No one at our table liked them, but I consider then an acquired taste. No grade since I’m not a good judge here.
Beans: The only disappointment. They were very thick and pasty, with almost no sauce. They didn’t have much flavor either. No hint of any meat trimmings in them. Even though we got a small side (and it was small), we didn’t finish them. Room for improvement IMHO. D grade.
Overall, loved the place. I will be back. Again, it’s a bit expensive and the quantity of the sides is a bit small. But, good BBQ is still hard to find in the Northwest and this is a real gem, if for the brisket alone.
PS-​The address is on Pennsylvania Ave, but it’s actually on N. 2^nd, just north of Pennsylvania and behind the Roslyn café. I know my way around Cle Elum and I nearly missed it.

I was directed to Roots by some local folks who said if I was a BBQ fan, I HAD to go to Roots. These guys were not kidding. I am a southern gal and picky about my BBQ and Roots delivered. I had a pound of ribs and coleslaw. The ribs are caked with an amazing rub and the ample amount of meat fell off the bone. The cole slaw is a mayonnaise slaw but not heavy or drippy and was delicious. I had a few choices of sauces to go with and spent most of my time licking the «tangy» sauce off my fingers so I didn’t miss a single drop. If I’m back out this way again, I will absolutely spend the money to have another plate of ribs. Don’t expect cheap prices but expect amazing quality that is well worth the money. You can’t put a price on someone who knows their way around a smoker.