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City Barbeque Comes To Indianapolis

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BBQ sauces: check

Despite watching City Barbeque build its location this summer in the old Grindstone Charley’s spot, I had no idea what the interior would look like. Based on other BBQ joints springing up in Greenwood, I figured there would be 1) wood decor, 2) a country theme with letters printed backwards, and 3) sauces on the tables. Oh, and because we dropped in the first week it was open, 4) a long line.

I am a mind-reader.

My husband gave me the choice of Moes or City Barbeque for dinner, and I picked the latter because I could write a blog post about it. It was a bit of a dirty trick, since I’d had a big lunch late and wasn’t even hungry. So as we’re standing in line and he’s trying to figure out how to maximize our order to taste the most variety of entrees, I lowered the boom: Honey, I just want the peach cobbler.

Busy at City Barbeque

The other factor driving his calculator brain crazy was the fact that lunch menu offers lower prices. So he needed to determine what he would definitely come back and try another day versus what he was craving at the moment. Yah, I tuned him out, too. He wound up asking for a pulled pork platter with hush puppies, baked beans and a bottle of root beer. And we continued to wait in line, watching the new crew slice and dice our dinner (and everyone else’s) before they finally called our name and handed us the tray.

Yep, we’re talking sit-down pricing for a fast-casual setting.

And the minute we sat down, the old dance between my husband and I began. “How’s that cobbler?” Well, it was OK but peach cobbler isn’t a specialty at a fast-casual barbeque restaurant. It wasn’t something you wanted to run from diner to diner, tapping them on the shoulder and saying, “OMG you have to get back in that ginormous line and have some of this!” It was … something sorta sweet to eat over the next 4 minutes.

Meanwhile, he has a dinner over there. And that pulled pork looked marvelous. And the hush puppies were crisp. He was raving about the baked beans, and taking a swig off that root beer bottle every few minutes, which didn’t entice me at all. But while he was mid-swallow, I casually stuck my fork into his pork for “just a taste.”

And that, my friends, was a bite worth running around the dining room making a fool of myself over.

Pulled pork

So I had another. And another. Eventually I was mooching a bite of his hush puppies, too. By this point, I didn’t have any cobbler left to trade him, so I was basically just downing his dinner before his eyes. “It’s for the blog post,” I said while savoring that wonderful pork. I was so into this entree, I forgot to check for those backwards letters on the signs.

But lest you think I’m a total hog, I left him the bun. And the root beer.

City Barbeque

7863 US 31 South

Indianapolis IN 46217

(317) 534-0320

Photography: Julie Sturgeon


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