Comments on: Baby Blues Bar-B-Q

By: David

David — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:36:00 +0000

I’ve become a regular at Baby Blues b/c I love BBQ of all types and many of their items are excellent. The shrimp, pulled pork and brisket are always great as are the ribs. Although a little high its not outrageous. The servers are so amazing-lovely friendly caring and real people…they are a lot of what makes this place special. When I haven’t been in for awhile they’ve noticed and you get the impression you’ve been missed!!! Do wish they had tri tip but maybe that doesn’t fit the food style.

By: Andreas J

Andreas J — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:35:50 +0000

Baby Blues BBQ to me is the best BBQ in Los Angeles, I tried about 20 others and while sure something are better I never found a better combination of delightful ribs, the best mac and cheese in the world, waitresses to just smile all night and a feeling happyness after the banana pudding. The Pork is tender, the brisket pulled but good, the shrimps are to die for and they always cut you a deal if you should be unsatisfied. If they had stock, I’d buy it!

By: m. coil

m. coil — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:19:52 +0000

to all the whining, naysayer post’ers: you’re right, that line around the block means this place is horrible and that you shouldn’t go back. we don’t need any more dipsh*ts coming in from van nuys making the place even more crowded.

By: KateNonymous

KateNonymous — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:23:53 +0000

We tried them at the L.A. BBQ Festival. The sauce was so vinegary that it almost made me wheeze. No good at all.

The ribs might have been fine on their own, but there was no way to tell without wheezing.

By: Ro jetta

Ro jetta — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:40:55 +0000

This place was horrible, What a waste of time,taste, and money. Me and my Husband stop here for lunch and had the pulled pork and beef brisket sandwiches ,they both were like eating paper with no seasoning. They were dry dry dry with very little coleslaw and dry dry dry buns ,the bbq sauce taste like pizza sauce mixed with ketchup. We found that they had some of the best pickles nevertheless. The kitchen was in (F)NASTY condition as well as the service. We really could’nt tell who was an employee. I had to walk out, there was no room for more than three people to enter just for takeout and than on top of that you are right next to people eating outside looking over their shoulders, as they sit to dine. I find this to be very tacky on a street corner . We would’nt recommend this place to anyone and all the positive comments must have been really fakes.

By: Jeremy R

Jeremy R — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:58:25 +0000

I liked Baby blues.

The rib sampler (Baby back and memphis style) ribs were great when we had it. the meat wasnt overcooked and falling of the bones mushy, but tender enough to attain maximum flavor. It wasn’t smothered in super sweet and tangy BBQ sauce either. You could add some smokin hot XXX porno BBQ sauce as needed. The brisket and pulled pork sandwiches combined with XXX porno sauce is also quite good. The burger is very decadent with the blue cheese, and an interesting version of the american classic. The mac n cheese and sweet potato mash are crazy good.

I cant comment on the other sides, but those two were excellent.

All in all, I know exactly what to order and the things I order I love. The prices are high, but I have gone to the nastiest ghettos in south central and paid 8 bucks for a sandwich. I have spent 16 bucks on crappy tony romas ribs. Based on those prices, baby blues is only 20% more and well worth it.

As for the ambiance, I love it. It is gritty, Venice, LA. I dont want to feel like I am in the middle of America, and I dont want to eat at a place with 100% white midwestern type families. I want that artsy, quasi-bohemian-hollywood, multi-cultural, offbeat LA dining crowd. Complete with funky art, and super packed in tables. It feels more decidely LA than the more far flung BBQ places in upland, etc.

I dont want traditional BBQ necessarily either. I want flavor, and Baby blues delivered for me. The meat has smoked to a perfect point and the meat rub added just enough flavor to make the meat standout, but not too much to make it over seasoned.

By: Mr. Brown

Mr. Brown — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 03:47:27 +0000

Baby blues was garbage, nooooooo soul. This place is definitely not soulfood from the heart(deceiving maketing), more like stolen culture for profit, its like going to beverlyhills for authentic mexcian(yeah)…The food was too expensive service was sub par. I will never eat there again, isn’t bar b que supposed to be hot ?..You would think because there is a crowd the food must be great(not).It turns out it was crowded because its a shoebox and not more than 5 people can fit in the front of the place. This place does not compare to Rib nest elsegundo, Phillips LA, Woody’s LA, or JR’s bar b que in Culver City. Anyone who tells you this is good bar b que obviously never had good bar b que before, you’re better off at Tony Roma’s .

By: Reginald

Reginald — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:11:44 +0000

Had lunch here with friends Saturday. Got to the restaurant about 11:30, we saw them on the Food Network and thought we would give them a try..Drove up a 2 1/2 hour drive just to try the place. This isn’t unusual for us, we’ll drive 4 hours on a whim if the food is right. Well, food wasn’t so “right” here. Out of Brisket and baby backs at noon? Poor planning. Pulled pork was so so, no flavor, bun was dry dry dry and were they running low on slaw?? I have never seen a Pulled pork Sandwich with LESS slaw than ours had. We all ordered different food, 6 orders in all and nothing better than a 7 out of 10 on a 1-10 scale. We won’t be back, we won’t reccomend, it wasn’t bad, it’s just nothing special and a little on the mediocre side.

By: Large Crowd

Large Crowd — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:48:57 +0000

I forgot in the previous email to mention the name of the resturant it was Baby Blues BBQ

By: Large Crowd

Large Crowd — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:46:10 +0000

This place was horrible. We waited over an hour to get seated in this very small resturant. We were there for a friends birthday celebration he picked this place after hearing several good reviews. After being seated the unhappy waitress told us they were out of pulled pork, brisket, and baby back ribs the only dishes they had available were chicken, shrimp and memphis style ribs (one of the more pricey items on the menu). I expect for a $25.oo dollar plate to be served on a table with a table cloth. They were also out of corn. We had to ask for drink refills and waited over an hour for our food to be served. Before recieving the bill we were asked to please leave as soon as possible as they needed the talbe. The whole experiance was just horrible they lost 14 potential customers and now left with a huge bad taste in our mouth. I would not ever recommend this place there are so many other good bbq resturants out there with good service and better establishements. This place was a HOLE!!