Big Johns Alabama Bar B Que

Old BBQ! Don't waste your money or time!. Have lived in Tampa all my life and grew up eating from this place. Not the same anymore! They will serve you old bbq (chewy and tough) mixed with a little fresh bbq (tender and succulent). Don't get fooled by the smoke! Just because they are taking it off the grill from being warmed up from last week's unsold food. They think people are not on to their game. Several of my family members as well as friends have had the same bad experience. If you want fresh bbq don't spend your money here, you'll be better off going to Sonny's BBQ or some other franchise. I gave it one star only because it's newly remodeled.…

RE: Big John's Alabama BBQ. Just moved to the Tampa area a week ago from NC (BBQ Capital), was driving down the street and smelled meat cooking. It smelled great! We turned around and went inside. First of all, the security guard was extremely rude (a kinda R. Kelly reject) Secondly, the meat was tender but the bbq sauce tasted horrible. Like it was made with 10 parts vinegar to 1 part ketchup. Not a cheap place to eat by a long shot. As a North Carolina resident for well over 20 years, the BBQ in the entire states' BBQ is PERFECTO! Mustard based, vinegar based are great. I've read some of the earlier reviews and thought, "Wow, are these people on hallucinogens or what. Wouldn't recommend to any one I knew, maybe to those out of staters.…

MORESAUCE911. I stopped in on my lunch time to get a chopped beef bbq sandwich - what a DISAPPOINTMENT - after arriving at my destination and preparing to consume my sandwich it had barely any sauce on, I am actually scraping the sides of the paper to try and extract more sauce - to little avail. Come on guys SAUCE IS CHEAP. You wouldn't want to lose a customer over sauce. I thought I would choke to death trying to eat this sandwich. I ordered a bbq sandwich not a peanut butter sandwich. This sandwich was 95% no sauce, not to mention that I spent my hard earned $6.00 - AND THIS IS WHAT I GET. I have visited there many times before, mostly in the old building - 5 mins. sandwich in hand, out the door. this visit it took about 15 mins. if not longer then I had to step outside a couple of times waiting for my name to be called because the smoke started to bill up. The building is beautiful, but you have got to add MORE SAUCE. You have got to do better.…

Really disappointed. This was our first trip and after reading the reviews, we went expecting a great BBQ meal. We were surprised and quite disappointed. The chicken leg was good but the chicken thigh in the kid's meal was so dry that the skin was too hard to eat. After seeing/reading about the desserts, I was suprised when the cookie in the kids meal was a package of oreos. The macaroni salad tasted like what comes from the grocery store. The beef sandwich was good and hearty but wanted more sauce and there was no BBQ sauce on the tables. I saw a charge listed for 1/2 cup of sauce but charging extra for BBQ sauce at a BBQ restaurant is a complete negative for us. Also, surprised that the entree didn't come with a side. Obviously, others writers loved it but we definitely didn't. Maybe we went on the wrong day.…