You're likely to make several visits to Rib City Restaurant before you get past the ribs and other barbecue offerings into the home-cooking part of the menu. Hickory-smoked beef is permeated with flavor, moist and tender. Namesake ribs are often so substantial you could use a bone as a billy club.
Smoked sausage is juicy and flavorful.
Though Rib City also offers chicken-fried steak, catfish and burgers, we didn't get to any of them on our visit. Sliced brisket would be our first pick. Not only were the edges dark with flavor, the smoke had infused the beef for a good quarter of an inch or more. With sweet-tangy barbecue sauce, it was complete satisfaction on a hamburger bun. Ribs had darkened less, but were especially notable for their moistness, owing to the wise inclusion of fatty edges.