Broadway Bar-B-Q achieves 'flavor Nirvana' with Pork Baker
Josh Anderson
Issue date: 11/12/08 Section: Expressions
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Louis Grizzard had his Sprayberry's, Memphis has the Rendezvous and students of our glorious institution have Broadway Bar-B-Q..
Located at the junction of Oxmoor Road and Broadway Avenue, Broadway Bar-B-Q boasts one of the better barbecue creations in the state: the Baker. I recommend the Pork Baker, but you are free to deviate from this suggestion at your own risk.
I have dined at Broadway umpteen times and have never strayed from my original choice: the Pork Baker.
This sumptuous feast consists of a beast of a baked potato topped with pulled pork barbecue, sour cream, cheddar cheese, butter and drowned in Broadway's original sauce.
Chives are included, but I do not support chives and therefore order my baker without chives.
Broadway employees understand the fact that much of a barbecue restaurant's fate rests solely upon the virtue of the sauce.
If Broadway Bar-B-Q won the World Series with its baker, then they hit a 500-foot home run with their sauce. Just the right mixture of flavor and spice results in the best barbecue sauce I can remember tasting.
The atmosphere is fairly Spartan, and the interior of the restaurant is not designed to impress. Rather, the unassuming decor demonstrates that the folks at Broadway Bar-B-Q are committed to one thing and one thing only: creating the best barbecue in the Birmingham area. Their revenue is not wasted on knick-knacks and fancy wallpaper. Their profits are committed to producing top quality barbecue, and the fact that they waste no money on frills is reassuring each time I step through the door.
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