BIG AL'S TEXAS BBQ CATERING & PICK-UP: Last Applicant/Owner: Abundant Brands, L.L.C. A few years ago the food costs were out of control. Cart. They have a very good menu (only serve pizza Thursday Friday Saturday and Sunday!) You could go into a place that was a loser and in a weekend you could clean it up. Meet Big Al; Locations. If you fill out the first name, last name, or agree to terms fields, you will NOT be added to the newsletter list. He’s also the last line of quality control, keeping the bad cuts from being served. Click Here to View Menu Click Here to View Menu Click Here to View Menu… Why bother making changes if they like what you’re serving? DV: You serve beef backs ribs. Big Ed’s is your spot for all sports action. Delivery & Pickup Options - 1599 reviews of Big Al's Pizzeria "Please do yourself a favor and taste the big Al's difference. At Big Al's Aquarium Services we have one of Canada's largest in-store aquarium collections, ranging in size from 2.5 gallons to 265 gallons. Order food online at Big Al's Smokehouse BBQ, Dallas with Tripadvisor: See 64 unbiased reviews of Big Al's Smokehouse BBQ, ranked #438 on Tripadvisor among 3,979 restaurants in Dallas. There’s no celebrations,” Weiner says. We are a family owned business with a wide range of cooking from Soul food to BBQ. Bewley’s folks tore it down and put in a rotisserie. Best Selling Sauces. Quick View. Meet Big Al. Sauces & Rubs; Shirts & Hats; Contact; Updates & Events; Search for: 0. Maybe they heard about them up north, but not in Texas. DV: What was the first location back in 1973? It’s all about how you hold the meat. Stop in at Big Ange’s Eatery, place your order and take it home with you. West Des Moines Location Adel Location. AP: We didn’t have pulled pork, but it’s almost identical. Appetizers. We had about three years of free rent, but we had to move. I went right over and bought it ten minutes later. Platters Family Packs Sandwiches Sides Kids. It’s still running today. I will start by saying that I have never had a thing from Big Al's that wasn't great. No Sauce, All Smoke BBQ You Wouldn't Believe. This is a widget ready area. There was nothing north of that. They’d smoke those briskets with fat covering both sides, then “trim all the fat off the briskets,” Garcia says. Back when Sonny was there, when they made a sandwich Sonny would take a bun in one hand and put the meat that he’d carved on there with a knife. Then we got Haggar over here with six or seven hundred people. His position is an important one. Not as good as Franklin, though.”. Rashad Jones, owner of Big Lee's Barbecue, cooks all of his barbecue meats at his facility in downtown Ocala. But it does come damn close. Call (515) 287-1227. Click Here to View Menu . Don't have an account? They helped me set up my barbecue business here. I didn’t know about the beef ribs, but I do know he was the first to do the stuffed baked potato. Fried Pickles. Plaskoff opened the first Big Al’s in 1973 when Weiner was just a child, but she fondly remembers an early block man named Mr. Russell. There was an ice storm. In 2012 Big Al left his garage in Adel, Iowa and has been literally SMOKING expectations with the BIGGEST BBQ in Des Moines, Iowa, ever since. AP: Not really. We put in a tile floor and made it clean. DV: The way your restaurant is laid out does follow a certain pattern that’s a lot like some other well know places in Dallas. Russell wore a white chef’s coat and tall cowboy hat, the latter of which Garcia emulated for a while. “For us, the talent was always on the block,” owner Lauran Weiner says. Did somebody buy them out? AP: When we opened up here, Dallas ended at Royal Lane. Nobody had heard of beef ribs, at least around here. You can’t please everybody. They make great stuff. Jimmy Dean was her best friend. Do you have a special occasion or big event coming up? AP: I believe I was, but I’m not 100% sure. Zomato.com does not guarantee prices or the availability of menu items at Big Al's. Pickle Chips fried to crispy perfection. [laughing] I had a friend who came in here and tried it. We’d have Herb Kelleher come in all the time too. Enter your email below to send a password reset email. AP: Making a change is difficult here. Here's what people are saying: 92 Food was good; 95 Delivery was on time; 86 Order was accurate; Seamless. He was the first one in Dallas to serve beef ribs. He wasn’t from a storied barbecue family, but rather came from a background in meat sales. The briskets weren’t even finished. It was Loren Brown’s BBQ. Never rushed. Northeast Raleigh. Have you ever considered doing beef short ribs? If you didn’t like it, go somewhere else, but everybody liked it. So when a place like this opens, it's like a beam of light shoots from the sky, lights up the location, and choirs of angels sing. Click Here to View Menu. Big Als BBQ Shop. Bewley did everything for me in those days. I’m selling everybody ribs, briskets, navel plates…do you know about navel plates? 4.7 of 5 stars. View 192 reviews. Loren Brown worked for him. I sat down with Al and his daughter Lauran Weiner to talk about the history of Big Al’s, the Plaskoff family and a little Dallas barbecue history. We were at home. Call Now. DV: You’ve got regulars that expect it a certain way. I did okay. View the Catering Menu Here! Al has excelled in the restaurant industry for many years and has spent time in locations such as Kansas City and St. Louis Missouri — both contributing to his love of BBQ. My history was as a meat salesman. Specialties: We specialize in 14 hour wood smoked BBQ that is so good you don't need sauce. Simply fill out the form below to contact us about our catering services. AP: We didn’t know any better. Big Al's menu in image format shown on this website has been digitised by Zomato.com. When you come here, you get slow done right. He’s eating with his fingers. AP: Always. So come for lunch and stay for dinner! If you ask me, this is the best barbecue in Houston. I wanted to stay right around here. Arapaho was the only one we built. Pedro has been here the same amount of time. Subscribe or link your existing subscription. Send Message. Big Al's BBQ & Deli menu in image format shown on this website has been digitised by Zomato.com. 00 259. DV: How many Big Al’s locations did you have at the peak? 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He’ll push anyone else away. Signed concert T-shirts lined the walls along the wood fence that corralled customers toward the counter at the old location, which is just a stone’s throw from the current location on Inwood Road near Dallas Love Field airport. I won’t cook those clods either. PORK SAMMY 1606 W 1st N Street Morristown TN, 37814 TUESDAY - SATURDAY 10am-6pm Ph: 423-839-0718. Kodak had four hundred people. He knows it’s done when “the meat is loose. Pedro Garcia checks the Tyler smoker behind the counter at Big Al’s. You could get it for twenty-five cents a pound back then. DV: What did this area look like when you opened? As the host, he says it’s important not to just keep your head down and cut. It’s soft.”. It was all about the bark. Known as Cathy's Catering she served our area for over 20 years making the best food and cakes. Who Is the New ‘Walker, Texas Ranger’ for, Anyway. It’s shaped like a square and it’s about twenty pounds. That’s the only box I’ve ever bought. 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