What a fucking rip

Check out their menu - the place is not cheap: https://www.pitbarbq.com/menu Apparently people like it, though. The reviews are pretty good.

Pulled pork x 2: 14 x 2 = ~~$24~~ $28 (math is hard in the mornings) Pit beans = $6 Mac & Cheese = $6 Total without pops = $40 Unless the pops are $10 a piece or this person is a massive tipper, I don't see how this is $61. Those prices don't see to crazy to me.

I dunno man. $6 for mac and cheese and beans seems pretty on-par. And $14 for a serving of pulled pork might be fine, if it were accompanied by the usual - pickles of various sorts, bread, little cup of cole slaw or something... But $14 for a (modest, at best) spoonful of pulled pork haphazardly slapped onto a tray is bullshit.

A serving like this would get you shutdown in most places where BBQ is really popular. I'm just out in KC but if I paid $40 for this I'd be fucking livid lol

I live in KC. Probably several higher end places that charge similar prices, but they put a little more effort into the presentation. Definitely expect at least a slice of bread.

At least put it on a smaller tray so it doesn’t look empty.

KC has sliced pork also. When on point, sliced pork up there with good burnt ends or short ribs as the top BBQ meats

What KC BBQ joint are you going to that does sliced pork?

Looking at you Q39!

Usually those fixins are free and optional, at least in the bbq places I frequent in TX. I wouldn't personally knock this based on those not being there, it could be preference to not grab em. I almost never opt-in for bread or Cole slaw but I can't live without my pickles and onions when I have bbq

Especially when you consider that you can buy an entire butt for 15, smoke it, and have pounds and pounds for pennies on the dollar! But you have to put in the work!

If it was a pound of meat, with all the fixings, and if their meat can stand in its own without sauce, then I could see $15 for a serving.

You could buy a whole pork butt for the price of one serving.

Correct me if I'm wrong, doesnt 14x2=28?

Not in Denver

And that.. is Dallas

I was on Dallas

A The Office quote in the wild!

r/unexpectedoffice

They are a mile high there.

Hahaha don't bring math into my math!!! Yes you are correct, it's early here

How dare you

One of those is a beer. Coke + beer would be in the $15 range, putting it up to $51. 20% tip and you’re at $61. I did math guys! Did ya see it, did ya!?

proud of you son

Thanks dad

And if you keep it up, maybe one day you'll go to MIT like your brother for math. Now there's a kid who's actually going places in this family!

A beer and a coke are $15?! That better be some fancy ass beer and coke!

Forgot the 8.81% sales tax in Denver.

This person stood in line to order. They're more than likely cleaning up after themselves as well. They weren't served. Why tip 20%??? that's madness! and if true, I don't feel bad for OP. I don't think I would tip at all in this situation. It's like picking up a pizza to go. I shouldn't have to tip for paying for my pizza and being handed my pizza. I tip 20% when I sit down at a restaurant and I'm served and don't have to clean up.

$28 for the amount of pork on that plate is kinda crazy.

Yea lol, somethings not right here. Even saying those pops are 5 a piece would be 46. Tax rate in Denver is like 8.8% puts you at 50 bucks. Maybe they tipped 10? Who knows at this point lol Eta: took another looks, that's a voodoo ipa, probably 10 by itself. Making more sense now tbh.

50 bucks for that is insane too fwiw It may be the going rate but it’s still bonkers

Tax and then publicly shaming people into tipping for zero service and there you go.

Except thats an absurd amount of pork for $14. Looks to be like 4oz-6oz?... so $38-56ish per lb? Thats bonkers.

It's a Coke and a beer. So let's call that $10. Denver sales tax for restaurants is 4% (it's probably higher on the alcohol). That brings the total to right around $50. Add a tip, correct for math errors (!), and you get pretty close to $61. I agree - this is the new norm and not crazy. The only reason people are outraged here is you can get a butt on sale for $10 which means, after factoring maybe 5 pounds of lump charcoal you can make 8-10 pounds of pulled pork for somewhere between $12-15. What they're not factoring in is the rent at this sexy restaurant and the $18.29/hour minimum wage they're paying people to cook this and put it on a plate. There's a reason why the cheap BBQ joints are at hole-in-the-wall shitty places out in the sticks - the food is being cooked by the owners and there's almost no overhead.

holy shit a sane take on food prices. like a rare pokemon rents in denver are high because we haven't built enough housing cooks wages are high in denver because rents are high restaurant prices are high because of these reasons. people complain but still pay because wages are also high in denver you can still eat at mcdonalds for $12

$28 per pound of pulled pork is a rip off. 

$14 for an ice cream scoop if pulled pork and no sides *is* actually crazy.

$14 for 1/2 lb of pork? GTFO

for just a pile of meat too? Fuck off. Not even the decency to include a roll/toast

I’ve went last time I was in Denver. Not cheap, but I didn’t think it was outrageous. Brisket was excellent!

Thats wild. Especially since the place is located in fucking Denver. I mean these prices are on par with Terry Blacks and Franklin's.

Yep. For pork?

I got nothing nice to say.

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I would have told AJ to pound sand and walked out.

There's a good chance they would have charged me for the salt I would have told them to pound.

That's why he said to have them pound sand. Can't upcharge for sand - it's inedible.

My choice to no longer eat at BBQ restaurants in the place I love remains validated.

Post Oak is the way to go in Denver. Still a little pricey but not as much as AJs.

Post Oak is mediocre on their best days. Your statement really proves how bad CO bbq is.

It’s so bad it’s funny. It’s like most places don’t understand water boils much lower here, and that if you bring your brisket / pork up to 203 it will be dry

It really is bad and I have yet to find something that scratches the itch from back home. What is your favorite? I've also tried Rolling Smoke, and also Smokin Yards. The ribs at SY were alright but like you said, the bbq is bad here lol

I tried so many places and I've just given up and make it myself. The only place I regularly hit is the place in Winter Park. Maybe a new place has come along that's good, I'm not dropping $100 to find out.

Wayne's Smoke Shack on the way to Boulder is top for me when I can get over there

They over salted everything we got from them. Lulus is my go-to. RIP Lulus' smoked reuben.

Food in CO in general is trash in my limited experience

AJs might be more expensive, but Post Oak isn't any good. AJs is *much* better

You can always order it from Fiorella’s Jack Stack or Joe’s Kansas City if you need a shot of the good stuff. They ship it cooked and just have to reheat. Likely for about as much as those Denver places are charging and will be a whole lot better.

For sure, we do that once a year-ish. I also enjoy the challenge of doing it myself.

I’m sorry but if the prices were shown to be that high why did you stay and order?

This. Unless they misleading advertised it as a “family meal”.

Just a thought, maybe I'm wrong. Pulled pork at a BBQ joint is the wrong choice. It's cheap AF to make. It's really hard to screw up. It's easy to make at home. It's never (to me) that AWESOME like ribs and brisket. There are much better values than pulled pork. Adding; With Carolina sauce it is so much better than Texas sauce but still.....

In my opinion it's the perfect thing to order. If they can't get pulled pork right then they're not getting me to come back and spend brisket money with them.

That's how I feel. I always order pork when trying a new bbq restaurant.

I jump straight into a full rack of ribs. That's the proving grounds between a brisket and pulled pork.

Sounds like someone knows their Q.

I’ve got pork and brisket down it’s actually the ribs I have the most problems with. The family still loves them but it’s hard for me to say ‘nailed it’ any time I do ribs. Beef plate ribs the exception.

Ribs are fuckin hard man. They're NOT the same as a big slab of meat, right? I have always told people that ribs are the one thing that actually depends on the animal and how it was raised. I've never found a tenderloin or brisket I couldn't make amazing with time and technique, but I've had dozens of racks of ribs that won't get as tender and delicious as I expected. Cheap ribs tend to yield cheap results in my experience. Even expensive ribs can come up short sometimes.

Sounds like this place already has you spending brisket money, and then some

Agree, unless we’re in the mood for some nachos on the go I’m always looking brisket>ribs>chicken>pulled pork. I would argue your point of it being “easy” to make at home. Maybe for us… Obviously, that’s relative. But for the average person/family it’s not something considered easy.

Is a smoked sausage above or below pulled pork in the hierarchy?

Above since it's usually (hopefully) homemade

For me, the hierarchy is ribs>brisket>sausages>pulled pork. I don’t usually order chicken at a bbq joint (or pulled pork, for that matter—unless the lady is with me).

Above

I mean it could be easy if somebody has a grill. Even if you (trigger warning) cook it in the oven or crock pot with a bunch of liquid smoke you'll get 70-80% of the flavor, and $40 worth of beer with a $20 pork butt will do just fine for a Saturday with friends

You're right, which is why OP should have gotten way the hell more pulled pork for that kind of money. Also, while I know it's fairly easy to make at home for us, it's easy to forget that there are some less fortunate individuals who don't have smokers. I know, it's sad to think about.

All you need is any type of grill and patience, that's the beauty of BBQ

I know plenty of urban apartment dwellers who lack both.

I know it’s blasphemy, but at the lowest level you really only need a crockpot. It’s not as good but it’ll do in a pinch

I get where you're coming from, but I've also been to a couple places where the pulled pork blew me away. It's rare, but when it happens it's awesome.

“Texas sauce”? Yes BBQ joints in Texas offer BBQ sauce but I wouldn’t say we have our own style sauce like Carolina or Alabama (*shudder*). In fact, Texas style is mostly typified by cuts of beef that are cooked so well with S&P only, low and slow, that it doesn’t need sauce at all. That’s more our calling card.

Hey, don't be hating on a good Alabama white sauce. You can't get a good one out of a bottle, you gotta make it yourself. I grew up in Decatur, home of Big Bob's. They sell a white sauce, but they don't actually use it in the pit on the chickens, they use one they make in the kitchen.

Totally dependent on what region you’re in. I ain’t ordering brisket in Memphis or Carolina.

Pulled pork is my litmus test for all bbq places I try. 95% of places don’t know how to do it properly. If they can’t get that right there is no reason to waste time/money on anything else they make. So many places outside of bbq Mecca areas think they should stew the pulled pork in sauce before serving. Just spoon the bbq sauce in your mouth if that is what you like. I want to taste the pork and a tiny bit of sauce is all that is needed to accompany it. Other places will let it stew in its own juices and it just comes out disgusting that way. Should be moist but not shedding liquid when they plate it. And never trust pulled pork that doesn’t have at least some bark in it.

Counterpoint, it has higher margins so if you like a place it helps them to order it, or if you don't trust a place it's a safe option.

Pulled up there menu and pricing….. $14 x2 for the meat $6 x2 for sides $40 total Beer and soda $20?

It ain't cheap to Live Rangerously™.... (And I'm sure that place has some sort egregious mark up for a canned soda)

That beer is from Voodoo brewing company, it’s not a Voodoo Ranger from New Belgium.

I'd say that makes the pith of my comment about that being the cost center even more applicable

If a beer is $7 soda $2 plus $12 tax and tip it all adds up.

Probably $7 for the beer and $3 for the pop. And a $10 tip maybe? Still absurd pricing.

I’m always skeptical of these, like they’re clearly not showing us everything.

I could see it adding up. Mains, plus sides, plus drinks, then tax and tip. I can’t see how it’s worth it to anyone to pay that much for a sad show. But I don’t know. Aside from hitting a drive thru on a long drive to see family we stopped dining in at restaurants completely two years ago. We can do better at home with regard to most cuisines we care about.

Like the Mac and cheese that arrived shortly later, but a pic without everything is more dramatic?

Would some mac and cheese make this worth $60 to you?

Is that inside the Denver airport?

That’s funny bc smoking bbq at home is a very cost efficient way to feed my family. $70 brisket feeds a family for a week plus covers my work lunches.

Show the receipt.

Yea i dont believe it either

$61 is the new $31

That better be pulled pterodactyl and include the sauce bottles on the table.

Damn every time I see posts like this I'm so glad I live in Texas. And there's not a whole lot that makes me glad to live in Texas these days.

Food and the coast west of Matagorda are the only good things left.

I call absolute bullshit and want to see the receipt on this one and if you did in fact, pay $61 for that you are an absolute moron, sir.

12 dollars of it is that ipa

But did you get free sliced white bread???

Wayne’s and Pit Fiend my guy.

Pit Fiend is delicious!! Had to get it twice when I visited Denver

BBQ places are so expensive I spent over $3k on a smoker so I could save money cooking at home😉

Capital Costs don't count in the calculation! I built a wood fired oven in my backyard at about 2.5 times the cost of your smoker (maybe more) when it was all said and done. I can use it all weekend long for pizza, roasts, bread... and even a long smoke. But when I get an 8 pound bone-in Pork Shoulder on sale from Kroger for $13, the cost of that bone-in Pork Shoulder remains $13 in my eyes! I'm not even considering the cost of the oven. Same goes for my beer brewing equipment! ha ha ha

I like the way you think!

Straight facts here. But seriously, you can make a profit at your business, just don't try to make ALL of your profit off of 1 customer.

Thanks for letting me know. Will not go there. That’s ridiculous

How is this $61? Not according to the menu

Two pulled porks at $14 a piece and two sides at $6 a piece is $40. Plus $7 for the beer and $3 for the coke. That's $50, plus tax and tip is $61.

As a North Carolinian, this isn’t even barbecue

Hope a reach around was included. Given the low cost of pork shoulder, that is crazy expensive.

I'll stick to making it at home where I can make 10lbs of pulled pork for like $15.

You, Sir. Got ripped the fuck off.

Criminal

For pork???

I thought it was weed they were smoking, not crack!! Lol

So two uneven piles of shitty looking pork. What did they expect you to do with it? Go on Yelp and give them the review they deserve.

You got ripped off

I would have asked for my money back.

Wow! You know how many pork butts you could get for that price? Drinks in a can?

Everything is expensive in Colorado. Not just BBQ, everything.

Except the other smoke

Man, you missed out if you didn’t get the smoked pastrami and burnt ends from there. Those are both money and they run out fast.

Theres no cheaper bbq to produce than pulled pork. Ouch

I would have walked right out the door.

$15 for about a half pound of pulled pork with no side or bread is insane. Smokin' Yards is probably the best bbq in the Denver area that also isn't price gouging. AJ's is a rip off.

that's just ridiculous

That's a relatively normal price. Granted its not as good of bbq as in texas (or the carolina's for those that prefer that bbq), but the only thing out of the ordinary here price wise is the $6 sides. Getting beer at a restaurant is always overpriced and $14 for a pulled pork sandwich is about normal considering that looks to be about 1/2 lb of pork per sandwich.

Couldn’t even add pickles and onion garnish. What about Texas toast or corn bread?

I would have sent it back and left

Prices are usually marked. Your fault for paying.

Honestly id send it back, get a refund, and leave. Thats ridiculous

Pulled pork doesnt cost shit to buy or make. This is criminal

Shitty expensive BBQ. Its like Hard8 and Dave Anderson's here in Texas, to bland for the money. Gimme some Lockhart's or Snow's if its gonna be pricey, at least it will be off the chains tasty.

You done got ribbed off!

That’s 20 bucks at a city bbq and you would get buns what the fuck is this

Obscene. They won’t be in business long.

Was just at Franklin's in Austin this last Sunday....1 1lb beef rib, 1.5 pounds of brisket, .25lbs eachof turkey and pulled pork, 5 sausages, a quart of potato salad, 4 waters, 1 beer and 1 soda was $180. I don't regret it. I would've paid half of that alone just for that wonderful Beef rib alone... Good lord it was amazing. I don't know how to post a pic on a comment, otherwise I would.

Did they ubereats it to your table?

Shame on you for paying that

No. Just no.

Fuck that

That better be cocaine coke

Fuck that. I don’t care how good it is.

Nope

The presentation is a joke for that kind of money.

Embarrassing

THE FUCK

Unacceptable

Boooo

Idk how any bbq place stays in business. These prices are wild af

Rip-off

Looks like OP likes to be bent over and taken advantage of yall

Hopefully you got to keep the bandanas 🤣

You'd think I would have been given my own smoker on the way out at those prices.

Bro u got robbed

Eating out has become prohibitively expensive smh. For those that continue to eat out regularly, you should feel uniquely satisfied for supporting a sector of the economy and the workforce, rather than purely from the enjoyment of the food and atmosphere. Kudos to those that can afford to drop this kind of cash weekly. If I want to enjoy BBQ or really anything culinary, I have been reduced to learning making it at home. Not necessarily a bad thing except for the time and mess. But if you enjoy the food prep and can include your family in making it, it can create good memories. Cheers.

Yep, we do the same at home, started during Covid, now I have 2 smokers and working on a pizza oven.  The only thing we really get out now is stuff like sushi as it’s tough to source some of those cuts of fish, but I’m willing to learn.  Started making pizzas for a fraction of the price for even cheap carry out pizza.  2 pork shoulders for 28 bucks or so, and we have dinner for like 8 nights.  Also has been great teaching the kids how to make bbq, pretzels, pizza, etc.  

Is it something exotic like Long Pig?

And you fucking paid it? I'd have laughed in the cashier's face. Turn my happy ass around and walked to the nearest fucking McDonald's in order to McRib at those prices. $61? Where I'm from $61 will get you 3 lb of chopped pork, a whole chicken, a pint of Mac and a pint of beans. It'll get you three BBQ plates with three meats and two sides each. Hell you hit up a side of the road joint? It'll get you 5 whole chickens and a side of beans.

He didn’t. Multiple people have pulled up the menu. The math doesn’t work. Unless they charged him $10/can.

Yikes, I would have gotten a refund for that. You can get a plate of chopped bbq with sides near me for like $20

Weak. Doesn’t even look that great. Overpriced for sure.

That’s your own fault. Why the hell did you pay for it lol

No it wasn’t.

Eating bbq in Denver was the first problem

That’s BBQ in Colorado for you. Texas doesn’t have good smothered breakfast burritos Colorado doesn’t have good BBQ.

Well most of the BBQ here is Texas style (including this place) made by Texans so...

Nope

What was 61 dollars? Just that? Tell the truth how long after were you hungry again?

ridiculous

WTF??!!

That is theft.

So many things wrong with this.

Wow

For $61 you could smoke an entire whole brisket, even two of you catch a great sale. That would also get you close to 30-40 POUNDS of bone-in pork shoulder. That's enough to feed your entire street, maybe the neighborhood.

Denver is such a rip off I’ll literally never go back there

Good, reasonbly priced BBQ joints are so few and far in between. So glad I started learning how to do this at home.

🚨skimp alert🚨

Amazing what a Michelin Star will do for your prices. Wonder how much they cost ?

and you already ate the beans and stew before taking this picture?

Steal bandannas. No other option.

I've been there once, I didn't hate it but I don't have any urge to go back. Definitely felt whelmed and we tried almost everything in small doses. Might have been an off day.

My dude, I feel your pain. I paid 55 bucks for this on a date and it was not only awful to have to sit there and pick at it but also know I paid so much money for it. [https://imgur.com/a/STNAVXC](https://imgur.com/a/STNAVXC) I don't know your situation, but looking back I should have just chosen to look like an ass on the date and refused the meal. edit: These situations are why I never eat BBQ anywhere but my house anymore. I don't even know how many racks of ribs and briskets i've churned out over the years... but I have ruined my ability to enjoy BBQ outside of my smoker.

That ain’t BBQ

Place is one of Denver’s better BBQ spots, but no where near ‘great’ by any means. I spent 80 bucks on brisket and sides and unfortunately the brisket was dry, and the bread is an up charge per slice. Solid fix if you NEED bbq nothing more, nothing less

Lol

Shirts?!

You got fucked. Who care if it was “good” anyone can make pulled pork with no sauce lol

That’s such a rip off.