The Full Moon Barbecue restaurant in Madison closed this week.
The closing comes as no surprise. The food was average. The sammiches were good but not the kind that make you go out of your way to get them. The restaurant made a pretty good brisket but the ribs, oh the ribs. They were always tough. How tough? Well, if you ate them every day for a week, your jaw would probably bulge with muscles after awhile. Apparently others had the same opinion because it was rare the parking lot was more than half full.
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It's got to be Jackson's fault. Still working on why.
"Over the years"? Lived in Madison for thirty years. Never heard of it. Was it a Chinese place?
I guess we all have different tastes and buds lol. It wasn't Rodney Scott by any means but the brisket and ribs were always good tasty and tender when I've had them. The catfish was above average but I adnit it was a hit and miss dish. Rarely went in mostly drive through. The veggie sides were always on point especially the greens. The chow chow was mid though.
Re: above remarks about "tough ribs". Ribs need to cook low and slow to break down connective tissue, until bones poke beyond the meat. After sufficient hours, slabs can be finished in the oven, checking internal temperature often, then wrapped tightly in foil, placed in an insulated air temp cooler to finish to final ecstasy.
If ribs are cooked hastily at high temps, the meat is tough.
If you’re going to try and sell franchise BBQ you got to make it better than the guy at the gas station with the home made smoker and they didn’t.
who fucks up ribs? even walmart and kroger can make good ribs.
was this place run by yankees who didnt eat the food they cook?
Hickory Pit in Jackson might want to take notice. I used to eat there all the time but their BBQ is also average at best. Don't take my word for it - go try some for yourself.
Pro Tip: attempt to be pleasant and don’t act like we are bothering you by coming to give you business. There is a reason the line is two columns at Chick Fil A. Automation replaces the need for you soon anyway.
That's not a BBQ joint. That's a bank. Or is it a gas station? Oh wait, its a liquor store. Never mind, it's Madison, the City.
Old Timers BBQ in Richland had the best pork sandwiches and scrumptious greasy fries. Now its gone.
Leatha’s in Foxworth/Hattiesburg/Petal had the absolute best pork ribs ANYWHERE, not just MS. Now they are gone.
Robert St. John or some other enterprising restaurateur needs to talk to their heirs and learn their methods and make us all happy again.
Maybe don’t put a BBQ restaurant in one of your bastardized neo-colonial buildings. Fake doesn’t mix with BBQ. The original location in birmingham is a winner.
10:44 - Post of the century.
That porch thing on the front, is really gross and ugly. The canopy design is clunky and repulsive, plus the DEPRESSION ERA BRICK STUMPS, holding up tiny, sawed-off columns, is NOT MADISON. It looks Redneck Mawmaw from Corinth (pron: KAW-wryiiiiinth)
In fact, the whole faux-patriotic canned mythos premise is Redneck/Bubba/Bro, and not a fit for Madison. The giant flag is tacky (and constitutes Desecration of the Flag, if you ask me: exploiting a sacred symbol for commercial purposes: and you can bet they didn't observe Flag Etiquette). On the bright side, once that grotesque mess on the front is torn off, the building has good bones, and will be easily repurposed.
Corinthian columns on a BBQ joint ... "just ain't right".
Good BBQ needs no sauce…
Old Timers was the best brisket plate anywhere, and that includes TEXAS. IMHO of course. Was sick when the new 6-8 lane Hwy 49 ate it up.
The column capitals more or less ape "Composite Order", a combination of Ionic and Corinthian, just to be technical.
Madison mooned them.
You just need to take one look at that building and you KNOW their food costs are inflated due to the RENTS TOO DAMN HIGH!
Place was good. At least the food.
Over time new employees were hired. They had a f’in attitude. Never went back.
Having Rob Jay hosting a weekly radio show there didn’t help.
google reviews funny as hell
Madison does its best to AVOID 'Neo-Colonial'. The city's stylistic range is 'Turn-of-the-Century Neoclassical (pre-war downtowns, all over America)', 'American Italianate', 'French Provencale', 'Old-town Stockholm', 'Paris 1900', 'Victorian Gothic', and 'Italian Mannerist'.
'Dinky Williamsburg' is not on the list.
WE got the memo. OUR architects understood it. Why is all of this so difficult for YOU? Maybe you should stay in Jackson, where you belong? Virtually all of Belhaven, Fondren, and Woodland Hills, by the way, are "Bastardized Neo-Colonial" - 'The Fairview Inn' - a copy of Mount Vernon, being a glorious example.
You sound like an very-old lady, schooled in avoiding "False Colonial" (DAR-eligible housewives were cautioned, in the 1960s, to only choose the "Good Colonial" - the true, Holy Grail Colonial Williamsburg - not the "bad, bastardized kind").
Hopefully, you understand that there is a difference between 'Neo-Colonial' and 'Neoclassical'. 'Neo-Colonial' came about, when not-very-American elements (and other insecure new money) sought to copy America's ("extremely ugly", as per Ogden Codman, whose family were Colonial aristocrats who built plenty of ugly Colonial structures), in order to pass themselves off as Old Money Americans.
Jackson's big Carpetbagger/Gold Coast Bootlegger/Brothelkeeper families, naturally, chose "Licensed Williamsburg Reproductions" - as sold by 'Warren Wright's House of Ideas', and, later, by now-deceased designer Jim Westerfield: the Carpetbagger Dynasties' ultimate authority on all things tastefully Neo-colonial-and-not-bastardized.
There was much recent outcry, after somebody stuck "a Leave-it-to-Beaver '50s Colonial picket fence" onto Madison's treasured Victorian Gothic Montgomery House. Clueless people abound, and sometimes they get away with things, before they can be stopped.
One of OUR Architect's drafting staff did something 'Neo-Colonial' for our development in Madison. But it was caught by the City, and he was fired by his boss, and I was not charged for the redesign, and I, personally, rented that hapless drafting architect a van, so he could move to another state where people don't know any better. I think he's doing HUD-compliant apartment communities in Connecticut, now.
Maybe someone could take up a collection, to help YOU move?
That place looks just right for a dental; veneers location.
Or a pastic surgeon who sells those implants!
Krusatyr, you apparently tried the wrong slab of ribs. Slow is good, but open flame ribs cooked and seared properly can not be challenged by a tender Smokey piece of pork.
Hickory Pit had been the same for at least 40 years. Their pulled pork is above average. The fries are 💯. The main difference is, Hickory Pit doesn’t have a mortgage and Full Moon had to cook enough to cover $15k a month for the real estate.
If you live in Madison and don’t know where Full Moon is, you must be blind. Whether you’ve stopped by or not.
Jackson opened Little Effie, Le Pressa, Louise, Masa Mesa, Emerson Provisions…no wonder people are leaving Madison. Not to mention, there are trees in Jackson
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