Barbecue Lodge

07/05/2008 Posted by galateaparty

Typical Eastern NC BBQ comes family style with fried chicken, hush puppies, cole slaw and your choice of sides. All you can eat; with generous helpings of everything in an 80's inspired formica palace. Mediocre suburban surroundings, with occasional live music brings a very rural feel to the strip mall location. The food is ok, but very salty. Collards come laden with pork belly fat, hush puppies are sometimes piping hot, other times tepid and unappetizing. The menu has more choices than many BBQ restaurants. All in all, it represents a good value if you're very hungry and don't mind a lot of salt. Service is very friendly and makes up for the dreary surroundings.

Pros: Abundant Eastern NC BBQ and all the trimmings, family style, good friendly service

Cons: Dreary decor, too much salt, fried bread a go-go

05/30/2008 Posted by Veeann01

The Barbecue Lodge still has great barbecue. I use to live in Raleigh years ago and I now live in Charlotte, NC. I went to Raleigh to visit some friends over the Memorial Day weekend and had a chance to eat there. We were seated quickly and the service was good. We got the buffet all you can eat with barbecue, seafood and fried chicken it was so much food but it was good. The barbecue in Charlotte which is considered western style isn't as good as the eastern style barbecue I grew up on. As far as I know Charlotte has only one restaurant that serves eastern style barbecue but the restaurant hours are limited 10am to 3pm Monday through Friday and it's to far away from my job to go there for lunch. The Barbecue Lodge is one of things I miss about Raleigh.

Pros: Good food, fast service

05/22/2008 Posted by Essence29

I live in Raleigh and have been searching for the best Barbeque. A friend recommended this place to me. Everyone has different tastes. I like mine vinegary. If there's such a word. I also like mine with lots of flavor. The kind of flavor that have you longing for your next barbeque plate. This place serves okay barbeque. It's too dry for me. Kind of like they squeezed the juice out of it. Not much flavor as I wanted. It's the closest Barbeque place to where I live but next time I'll just have to drive farther. I still have yet to find the BEST barbeque in these parts as of yet.

05/14/2008 Posted by arsbadmojo

First thing's first; the BBQ is fabulous. Finely chopped, perfectly seasoned, delightfully tender. It's the best I've had since moving down here 8 months ago. A previous reviewer that gave this place 1 star obviously has no clue what Eastern NC BBQ is all about. If you are unfamiliar with this style of BBQ, do a bit of research. You won't find "K.C. Masterpiece" sauce on our tables down here. Cider vinegar, some ceyenne and red pepper flakes - this is our sauce. The sides are pretty good too. I love the puppies, love the slaw. I will agree that the "corn sticks" are kind of gross...they're just too thin, and don't taste like cornbread. The atmosphere is like a rural Knights of Columbus/Mosse Lodge/Chuch basement banquet hall with some decorative pigs thrown in the mix. It's a family BBQ joint, not Morton's. Your waitress will probably call you "Hun" or "Sugar". You seat yourself. Food arrives quickly, served on blue plastic plates circa 1973. Order the sweet tea and you get your own pitcher for refills. Serving sizes are on the large size. I get the small BBQ plate, and I'm a big guy - can barely finish. The large plate would be plenty for 2. Prices are reasonable and in-line with other BBQ joints.

Pros: Great BBQ

Cons: None

03/29/2008 Posted by hopefulcrafty1

Great BBQ, Great Coleslaw, Great Hushpuppies, Friendly staff. We love this place!!! (don't like the corn sticks though - we just ask for all hushpuppies)

03/04/2008 Posted by FoodLover115

For the out-of-towners who dont know, before criticizing food because it is different, do some research on where you are. That type of bbq and coleslaw is typical of Eastern North Carolina, mustard cole slaw and vinegar based bbq. If you wanted bbq sauce on your bbq, then go to western NC and that is what you will get. BBQ is a type of food...not a condiment around here. BBQ Lodge has excellent bbq, slaw, and fried chicken. They are one of the best in town and cheap too! It is nothing fancy on the inside but it is a family owned and operated business that prides themselves on friendly staff and good food. If you like bbq, you MUST try this place!

01/01/2008 Posted by saturnswirls

We love bbq and eat it several times a month. We are always eager to try a new place while on vacation. Visiting from Miami , FL we had no clue where to get good bbq in Raleigh, NC. Someone at our hotel recommended Barbecue Lodge on Capital Blvd. When we arrived we were a bit skeptical because from the outside it looked like a dive. It was inside of a strip mall and parking was difficult. We pressed on though. We walked in and the decor was really drab and plain. We were seated and the waitress brought us a basket of fried hush puppies and "corn sticks". The hush puppies were alright, but the "corn sticks" were rather nasty. They didn't taste anything like corn and they were completely overdone. We ordered a bbq pork sandwich, a half bbq chicken, chicken and dumplings and a fried shrimp platter. When our meal arrived we sat stunned. The pork sandwich had no bbq sauce. It was just shredded pork on a sesame bun. The coleslaw was a dark yellow color. It is made with mustard (I've never seen this anywhere). The chicken and dumplings looked like chunks of flour and boiled chicken sitting in salted water. The bbq chicken was undercooked. The skin looked boiled. It was sitting in a puddle of orange grease. This is what they called bbq sauce. When we asked about the bizarre coleslaw the waitress basically laughed and said we should have known before we ordered that it had mustard. The only bbq sauce available was in a small bottle on the table and it didn't look or taste like any bbq sauce I have ever had. It was watery and tasted like vinegar. The fried shrimp was about the only thing that wasn't completely awful. However, it looked like something straight out of a freezer bag. The fries were also overdone and looked like Ore Rida. Overall, the entire meal was gross and we left most of the food on the table and just paid the $30 check and went to Wendy's. That's pretty bad when you have to leave a restaurant and get fast food.

Pros: Clean table, plenty of napkins, good iced tea.

Cons: Odd waitress, bad food, difficult parking

09/02/2007 Posted by halladay38

If you are lucky, you will get to hear one of ladies blurt out for Freddie to handle a call on line 1 ! In the meantime, you can savor the vingegar based bbq chopped to fine perfection. They really pile the bbq high on your sandwich here and give you a lot of slaw if you order it on the side ! They are fast, friendly and very reasonably priced.

Pros: Freddy picking up on line one !! , good food, value, fast

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07/22/2006 Posted by gsgc

My first visit and it was just like it had been described! This is a new favorite I hope to frequent often.

Pros: Great service; great food; great value for the money; lots of food!

07/21/2006 Posted by dcj7

Pros - A lot of food for the price; nice large portions; reasonably clean; good service; tasty food; quick service. Cons - Bland atmosphere; parking situation not ideal; limited food selection. This was my first visit; I'll be taking my wife tomorrow for her first visit. Overall, I give this place a thumbs up!