Jack's Bar-B-Que
Nashville, TN 37203
Phone: (615) 254-5715
- Price:
- $
- Cross Street:
- Fourth Avenue
- Hours:
- Mon-Wed 10:30am-3pm, Thu 10:30am-8pm, Fri-Sat 10:30am-10pm
Message from Jack's Bar-B-Que
Enjoy tasty barbecue under the famous Pigs over Broadway sign.
- Two Locations
- BBQ Sauces for Purchase
- Catering
Paid advertisement by Jack's Bar-B-Que.
Editorial Review for Jack's Bar-B-Que – by Ashly Callaway
In Short
With pink-neon flying pigs flanking its sign, this barbecue joint is easy to spot among the lower Broadway eateries. Get in line at the back of the casual, cozy dining room to get your paper plate loaded up with pulled pork, ribs and sides. The pork shoulder is tender and smoky and the beef brisket is moist and peppery. There's also macaroni and cheese and green beans--pretty much the only vegetable on the menu.
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Insider Tips
Where to SitThe main dining room gets crowded when there's a concert or game going on, so look to the back patio for additional seating. And bring your pup--the patio is pet-friendly.
The ExtrasThe restaurant also offers catering for parties and other events.
User Reviews for Jack's Bar-B-Que
01/25/2008 Posted by tmp24
My fiance and I are moving to Nashville next month and were very excited to try Jack's as it was highly recommended by friends and on TV programs. What a complete disappointment. As another reviewer stated, the meat was incredibly dry. Just awful. The flavor wasn't horrible but there was just no juice left in that meat! The sauces were tasty enough but had a horrible aftertaste. They were also full of high fructose corn syrup. Yuck! Who goes to a restaurant to eat processed food!? Gross. The side dishes were rather pathetic. Please tell me how you screw up baked beans? They were bland and dull. Useless dish. The mac and cheese was cheesy but mushy and completely overcooked. I tried the chess pie and didn't even finish it. I'm not someone who doesn't finish her desserts! It tasted like corn starch. Basically it all tasted like industrial cafeteria/army food. Nothing seemed to be made on the premises and certainly nothing was fresh. I was so looking forward to some good TN barbecue and was just shocked at how bloody awful the food was. I really don't recommend this place. This is not food made with love. We even saw a worker behind the counter dumping corn into the serving bin straight out of a plastic bag. Don't bother going. They must have shipped this food from Memphis and re-heated it a month later...
12/03/2007 Posted by thebestcritic
We recently visited Nashville for the weekend and road-trip football game. Having been to Tennessee and enjoyed their style of BBQ, we were all exciting about having "pulled pork" and "ribs"...Tennessee style. The reviews in CitySearch and local Nashville publications, as well as local recommendations, took us to Jacks. Out of the six of us, we tried the ribs, pork, corn, beans, cole slaw, mac and cheese, and their cornbread. One of the six was impressed with the food. The ribs were dry and over cooked; absolutely no moisture left in the meat which was sparse at best. The "pulled pork" was without a doubt the worst I've tasted, again very dry. The sides were better that the BBQ, but that’s not saying much. The place must be living off the glory days which have gone by. Please don’t judge Tennessee BBQ by what you’re served at Jack’s; it’s much much better. Fast food cusine at it's finest.
Pros: Location
Cons: Food, Service, BBQ Sauces
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