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Ted Cook's 19th Hole BBQEditor's Choice |
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$$ | BBQ/Ribs
A giant iron smoker and grill and the imperious gaze of the pit masters dominate this small takeout-only eatery. Cook's cherry-and-hickory-smoked spare ribs, chicken, and rib tips shouldn't be missed, nor should the sweet-hot glazy sauce that is a must for heat freaks.
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Scores will be assigned based on a 0-100 scale broken down as follows:
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City Pages | Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl
12/10/97
The barbecue, slow-cooked over a cherry-wood fire, is great. The barbecued beef might be the best: Thin-sliced pieces of lean, inside round, cooked all day until spoon-tender, it's slightly delicate, sort of earthy. They serve it slathered with homemade barbecue sauce and a pile of jo-jo potatoes, which are fresh potato slices that can be ordered either lightly fried and tender, almost like home-fries, or "extra crispy" so that they're like meaty potato chips.
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Mpls.St.Paul Magazine
Heritage Score
80
Gayot
Since 1968, this neighborhood carry-out joint has been serving sauced-up and wood-smoked spareribs, beef ribs, chicken and rib tips---the latter of which demands the bucket-full. Smoky and glazy (try the hot sauce if you really like a burnin' mouth full), this is wet barbecue at its best. We love the pork tips, but the barbecue chicken or sandwiches piled with the juicy shredded meat are topnotch as well;
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BUZZ
Mpls.St.Paul Magazine
Best Barbecue
03/05
Nitpickers can argue all they want about the lineage of Cook's 'cue (a neat hybrid of Memphis and Kansas City styles), but the cherry- and hickory-smoked spareribs, beef ribs, chicken, and rib tips and the sweet-hot glazy sauces are the real deal. If you like heat, check out Cook's hot sauce-it's only for the bold.
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City Pages
Best Of: Best Barbecue
2004
Here, only smoke-stained white walls and framed photographs of meat and side orders ornament the room, and the only thing screaming Southern charm is the creaky screen door that greets you.
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- Kid-friendly
- Outdoor dining
- Wine and beer only
- Late night dining
- No alcohol
- Entertainment
- Wheelchair accessible
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