I was in St. Louis last week for work and went to dinner with a friend, Jamin. He graduated with Dave and I from Notre Dame, he used to work at Frito Lay (and was helping us try to get in there), interviewed with Mars Petcare in December but didn't get the job, and now he's the Brand Manager of Beneful dog food. The competition! Regardless of that fact, he is a great guy. He loves BBQ and College Football. So we get along pretty well. Jamin goes to a college football game almost every weekend in the fall, and eats his way there and back. And he blogs all about it. This year he's invited Dave and I to participate in two games, but one of them is the weekend we move into our new house and we have a game at Vanderbilt the other weekend.
Anyway, Jamin and I went to dinner in St. Louis. I trusted him to pick a good BBQ place. And I was not let down! We went to a place called Pappy's Smokehouse. The line was relatively long even on a Tuesday night, but it was worth the wait. While I was in line I noticed an item on the menu called the Big Adam - named after Adam Richman, the host of Man v Food. He had visited Pappy's when he was in St. Louis, which I thought was very cool.
I got the pulled pork plate with a side rack of ribs and sweet potato fries. The fries were just okay - they had really sweetened them up by using brown sugar. I'd prefer them plain. The pulled pork was some of the best I've ever had! And the BBQ sauce was great, too. Jamin also had the pulled pork and he didn't use any BBQ sauce; it was that good! The ribs were pretty yummy as well. If I'm ever back in St. Louis - or if you all ever go to visit - you definitely have to go to Pappy's Smokehouse!
