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After reading all the reviews, I really expected more from this place. Their pulled pork sandwich was not very good. The meat was tough, and there was no smokey flavor whatsoever from the meat, just an incredibly sweet sauce with ketchup consistency that overpowered everything. The other sauces on the table were just as bad. The sides were pretty good, however. I liked the blue cheese slaw and the cowboy beans, but sides are not enough for a BBQ place to stand on. Normally, I like to visit a place several times and try multiple things from the menu before I can say whether I like it or not. Because the pork was so bad, I'm reluctant to give this place another shot. I'm from the South, and I haven't really found any place in AZ that can cook pulled pork properly (only Pork on a Fork comes close). However, the pulled pork I had to day at the BBQ Co. was some of the worst I've had in the Phoenix area.
negative