J’s Simply Soul

To start off, I’m modestly consider myself to be a barbecue aficionado. I make it a point to eat healthy barbecue for lunch around the metro Atlanta area. This place is seriously good though. I had the pulled pork barbecue plate and two helpings of collard greens. My wife had the pulled chicken. It is all top notch. Also, the service was excellent.

Absolutely amazing Q. Pulled Pork was fantastic and all the sides did not let us down. Great restaurant find close to my father’s new house. Great staff who really have a passion for making your experience amazing.

I am going to assume that the last reviewers have never tasted BBQ before.
When there are that many things on a BBQ menu you can bet they do several things ok but don’t do one thing great.
Maybe I came on an off day. I don’t know.
I ordered a Pork sandwich and a small Brunswick Stew. Stew is my litmus test for a BBQ joint in Georgia. Flavor was ok at best. The appearance was down right awful. It looked like stew ran through a blender. And it came out a little over room temperature. I will update if I get sick. So far it is a failure.
Next was the pork sandwich. It seems like I had yesterday’s pork and it had been reheated in a pan with some sauce. Flavor was ok. Too fatty for my taste. Seems like they didn’t run it long enough to render all the fat out. Or just throwing the fat that you normally throw out when cooking a butt to stretch the meat to have more servings.
My sandwich had 2 huge hunks of fat about a quarter of the meat and a stringy sinewy muscle lining type thing. I don’t know. Failure.
The sauce was good. Lots of molasses. Spicy sauce was great.
I usually give places a second chance but I am convinced that Bartow County is utterly doomed to have shit BBQ forever.

Omg, let me just say the ribs are the best ever. All of the sides are delicious. Everything is homemade Mac and cheese, collards, best black eye peas ever! All I can say is yummy!

Good stuff!!! I am very picky about my BBQ, but the pulled pork is spot on. The brisket is good too but I like my slices thicker versus the way they slice it super thin. The sides are all good also. I highly recommend this to anyone in the area. Not many BBQ places I would recommend, but this is one.

This is a must try restaurant. If your from the rydal/​white area you know there isn’t many places to choose from for food. This will become a regular for us. Husband got the brisket and pulled chicken with Mac n cheese and green beans. All of it was amazing! Best brisket I’ve ever had. I got the pulled pork sandwich. Great flavor on the pork. Also got Brunswick stew and loved it! Now for the bbq sauce it was on the thick side sweet with a hint of hotness. I liked it. Many options on menu. They ran out of ribs, but plan to try next time. Staff was very friendly, and place was clean.

Worth the drive out of CVille.
Family run, no frills but all good food.
Mac and cheese, ribs and brisket are all off-​the-​chain.
Best BBQ around.

best bbq around… good service, and if you order chicken, it is cooked to order… but worth the wait!!!
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