BBQ King

This reads like a detailed restaurant review of BBQ King near downtown Los Angeles.

You describe:

• Setting & parking: Tight parking but expected for downtown; lots of barrel smokers outside, popular with locals, attached to a car wash, and a nice view of downtown.
• Ordering experience: Friendly cashier but trouble getting the order right; some back-and-forth before it was sorted.
• Your meal:
• BBQ rib dinner (sauce on the side) with BBQ beans and coleslaw.
• Ribs looked good but were tough, chewy, and lacked smoke flavor; no visible smoke ring.
• Sauce was excellent—sweet with spice, good on everything—but couldn’t fix the toughness of the ribs.
• BBQ beans were very good and the first thing finished.
• Coleslaw was soggy.
• Cornbread muffin was a pleasant surprise and paired nicely with greens.
• Missy’s meal:
• Smoked chicken BBQ dinner with double greens.
• Chicken was dry but had more smoke flavor than the ribs; she finished it mostly out of hunger.
• Greens were tasty and a highlight for her.
• Cutty’s meal:
• Chicken hotlink (Pete’s link) sandwich combo with fries and drink.
• Hotlink was very good, though drenched in sauce.
• Fries were thick and a bit greasy; Cutty didn’t like them (prefers McDonald’s-style), but you enjoyed them.
• Dessert:
• Apple cobblers were forgotten at first; you had to ask for them.
• Flavor was good, but texture was soupy with a soggy or missing-feeling crust.

Overall impression:

• Staff is nice, atmosphere is unique, and the view is great.
• The standout items: BBQ sauce, BBQ beans, greens, hotlink, and possibly the burgers (which you didn’t try but note are what they’re famous for and were even featured on Bobby Flay’s show).
• Weak items: spareribs (tough, not smoky), coleslaw (soggy), and somewhat disappointing chicken and cobbler texture.

Your conclusion: if you go, you’d likely recommend trying the burgers or the hotlink, and you personally wouldn’t recommend the spareribs or coleslaw, and you invite others to share their own experiences.