Eric’s Family Barbecue is a Texas Style casual Barbecue Restaurant that cooks with mesquite instead of the usual hickory and oak Texas barbecue is most famous for. This restaurant is located on the west side of Phoenix in Avondale Arizona. It’s not a fancy place but it seems clean. They offer some patio seating.
They also have some seating indoors.
You wait in line to order and look at the menu on the wall to decide.
Today they are out of sausage and burgers today.
Ordering is a little different.You make up your own plate by ordering The amount of meat(s) that you want. You can order all the pounds that you want or a fraction of the amount of meat or meats that you desire. The meats that were offered today were brisket, beef ribs, pork ribs, pulled pork, turkey, and rib tips. They offered a few specials, some sandwiches, sides, desserts, soft beverages……Not sure if I saw beer bottles but I thought I did..?
We went threw the line and our platter was made up for us. We ordered not all but a good amount of the menu. They might have been a little generous with the servings. We have enough for over four meals.
Going clockwise starting in the lower left corner are the complimentary pickles, onions & jalapeño. We also have potato salad, pulled pork, brisket, turkey, beans, and macaroni and cheese.
We thought some things were much better than other things. I do note that any barbecue can’t really be judged in only one visit because none of them are completely consistent. They take hours smoking the meat. Then the hard part is timing the meat to stay ready for you.
Our mutual favorite today was the turkey. It was extremely flavorful and so moist it really did melt in your mouth. The turkey today was AMAZING!
The pulled pork was also amazing because it also was flavorful, moist, and tender.
We thought the house sauces that we tried were very good.
We tried the house bbq sauce, the spicy bbq sauce, and the mustard. All the sauces were very flavorful and delicious. Also none of them were too sweet.
We thought both sides were average for barbecue places. The macaroni and cheese was soggy and sticky. It tasted more like children’s macaroni and cheese. The potato salad was laced with dill but seemed like it was missing the usual onions and celery. We thought that it did taste better when I added a little bit of mustard sauce to it.
The brisket had perfect textures to it. The burnt ends were crusty. The meat was succulent but not too succulent. The only thing missing on the brisket today was flavor.
It wasn’t the day to try rib tips. They were dried out and lacked flavor.
That was my trip to Eric’s Family Barbecue in Avondale AZ.
www.EricsFamilyBBQ.com
12345 W Indian School Rd Avondale AZ
623-248-0148
Everything is. subject to change.
