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'The offbeat creations here include Redneck Fondue and Buried Corn Dogs.Cans of Natty Boh and Pabst for sale at a place with an Escoffier cookbook on the shelf? At this barbecue joint, there s no shortage of quirkiness. A hot-sauce display offers Megadeath and Memphis Mojo, there s an eBay addict s assemblage of vintage knickknacks, and the front counter is plastered with bumper stickers (you look better on myspace).

The menu sticks to the classics: tender, sweetly basted barbecue chicken, snappy house-smoked sausage, brightly flavored slaw, and mustard-stoked red-potato salad. Many smokehouse aficionados judge a place by its pulled pork, and this tender pile of shredded meat is up to snuff, whether heaped on a kaiser roll or dipped in vinegary sauce. And though they might blanch at seeing a crab-cake sandwich on the menu, this one is pretty good. Despite the place s obvious Texas pride longhorn skulls and chili-pepper lights are everywhere the Lonestar-style brisket and too-sweet chili are weak spots.

Though the place does a big takeout business, you can eat at one of a handful of tables, each with its own roll of paper towels and bucket of plasticware.

Open daily for lunch and dinner. ' Washingtonian
2007 Chapman Ave, Rockville, MD

Budget, Restaurant