Nice choice after we viewed the Gardner museum which is a ten minute walk even on a rainy day on a Saturday afternoon. Service was friendly. Get the biscuits and a brisket burnt ends sandwich. Side salad was also very good with Brussels sprouts hazelnuts and other ingredients!
Kenneth DeRosier Jr.
Fried chicken is delicious ?
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Buttermilk Biscuits
Evan Comeau
I recently went to Sweet Cheeks Q for dinner with a few friends and had a sort of bizarre experience. The food was fine; I was happy enough with my fried chicken and sides. But my meal was soured by a sitcom-esque debacle.When I ordered, I explicitly asked about whether the fried chicken (not tenders) came with any “scoops.” The tenders come with one “scoop,” and it’s unclear on the menu if that applies to all the chicken or just the boneless. Our server responded that not only does the fried chicken come with one scoop, it could come with two! She also offered me a dipping sauce, ranch or blue cheese. Our food came, we ate it, we then had an extraordinary long wait for some additional biscuits that my friend had asked for to-go at the beginning of our service.But then the bill came. I looked and saw the kitchen appreciation fee, which is always a slight annoyance given that it seems like a sly way of increasing prices without the customer internalizing them. But that’s generally accepted, so ok. But then I noticed I was charged for three extra items — 3 dollars for blue cheese (!), 5 dollars for by broccoli (side 1) and 6.50 for my potato (side 2).I politely asked the server to correct the charges for the sides (I had resigned myself to paying for the blue cheese, 3 dollars is crazy but ok). Instead of deducting them from the bill, she stated that yes, the sides did come with the chicken (as part of a meal), but no, that didn’t affect the price of the sides. She seemed completely unaware that her response to my earlier question was completely misleading. As if ordering the chicken gave me the right to order the precious sides, which is only reserved for customers that are turning their entree into a “meal.”Obviously when I asked the question comparing the tenders and the normal fried chicken, I was asking whether the chicken included a side as a part of the price, as the boneless does. I certainly hope I would be allowed to order any number of sides I would want with anything. I would not have ordered sides if I had known they would have cost more, hence why I asked in the first place.I never write reviews, but this was probably one of the most insane misunderstandings I’ve ever experienced. I understand that miscommunications happen, but the fact is that I was offered no consolation or even acknowledgement that I was misled. Hopefully my experience will help the next unwary diner, or help them avoid an establishment that seems unconcerned with deceiving their customers out of their hard-earned money without even giving them the respect of a legitimate apology.
Chelsea K
I can’t speak to the quality of the food necessarily, it seemed just fine to me but I wouldn’t consider myself a BBQ expert by any means.What was off was the service- it was Sunday night around 7PM, the dining room was beginning to fill up and I think only one server on the floor. She was very kind and helpful but a few things left a bad mark on my impression-1) our bucket of biscuits arrived (they’re fine, nothing special, the jam tasted a bit old) and only one of the 4 of us was given a plate before we asked for more.2) when our food came we had no forks and had to ask for those as well3) one of my friends ordered coleslaw and I ordered the baked potato as a side and we were both given potato salad instead. Our server walked by our table several times as I tried to get her attention. She wasn’t particularly slammed as I saw her standing and chatting with a friend sitting by the window. Once she did manage to check in with us I mentioned the switch up and she said “oh yeah, we’re actually out of baked potatoes so instead of asking you I figured you would want the potato salad instead” which is just….a crazy thing to do????? Like, to knowingly ring in a guests order wrong and then not mention it when the food gets dropped or check in about it until you’re flagged down is just bad service.At that point I had been sitting waiting to eat because I wanted what I had actually ordered so I said it was fine and we continued on. All in all nothing egregious but just kind of a weird experience. And then what seemed like the floor manager asked if our bill was all set, took it off our table and then stood glaring at our sever (who was now very busy and running around) to give it to her instead of ringing it himself. Weird vibes.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 2
Andrew S
Great food and easy to access from the MBTA Subway's Green
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Orkhan Mammadov
Ok, they keep me waiting, I waited 37 minutes to receive an order, it's not nice at all.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Tonia Curdas
Honey butter biscuits were delicious but the night only went downhill from there.Each meal came with an unpleasant surprise sauce or side that was not explicitly stated on the menu and overpowered the dishes (random pickles, sour cream, hot sauce drizzled all over a sandwich unrequested).Must have been a bad batch of brisket because the meat was dry and the bbq sauce was sour with vinegar. The buns were also sad.Service was abysmal for Sunday night with around five seated tables in the restaurant. While our server was busy chatting up the other tables, there were several others just standing on the floor staring at tables and not doing anything to speed up service. Also our table did not have plates and when we asked for them they arrived wet.Sticker machine was cool I guess.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 3
Service: 1
Recommended dishes: Biscuits with Honey Butter
Stacy Susman
The food was good but maybe Boston is not the place to get barbecueShout out to Chase who made ordering
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 3
Service: 5
Zoey Taylor
I’m from the south and am picky about my bbq, I’m not gon lie this was some of the best I’ve had! Kept everything to its roots no spicy Mac and cheese just delicious breaded and original bbq goodness. Ty for everything!
Isabella S.
Guys I'm gonna be honest don't waste your time at this place. The food is not good and is WAY too over priced. If I could give a 0 stars I would. The server LITERALLY charged us 20% gratuity on our bill for a big party when we were a party of 5 and on the menu IN SMALL, says the gratuity is applied on a party of 6 or more. Never again. Also don't get the wings they were so bad.
Excellent barbecue place. Great place for dinner. Very friendly and helpful waitstaff. Nice atmosphere with tv’s to watch Sports games in.
Chad Miller
Awesome BBQ spot in the Fenway area. Biscuits are amazing. Great smoked meats!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Buttermilk Biscuits, BBQ Chopped Brisket, With Honey Butter, Biscuits with Honey Butter
Joy squares
Small place, but very cozy. The food was good but some of my food was room temperature when it came
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Pepper Potatoes, Biscuits with Honey Butter, Pork Ribs
Sam Anderson
We went to Sweet Cheeks BBQ for our anniversary and woah was that a mistake. I'm telling you now this place is a tourist trap. The staff was friendly and kind, this isn't about them. This is about their food, I had their 3 meat combo with burnt ends, ribs and sausage. The biscuits were the best thing there. If you're going here just get a bucket of biscuits. First, the ribs had no bark, no seasoning and no smoke flavor. The sausage was tasteless, it didn't taste of spices or pork, and the burnt ends were hard. My husband pulled pork, pork belly, and brisket. The pulled pork was okay, it wasn't amazing, it was better than all the other meats we had. The pork belly lacked the gelatinous fat that is a hallmark of pork belly, it also had less flavor than that pre cooked pork belly you get at Trader Joe's. The brisket was dry and lacked bark. They describe themselves as Texas BBQ but I can tell you that the state of Texas would not want to be associated with this overpriced facsimile. The sides were okay, but none of them could make up for the disappointing meat.If you're in the area, go to Loretta's instead.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 2
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Buttermilk Biscuits
Dee C.
I was so excited to try this place, and I should have checked the menu before I went. I went with my daughter, and she does not eat pork, and that was a challenge because the majority of their menu is port. They do have other options like chicken and beef, but it's like brisket and fried chicken, which my daughter I was not feeling it. So I told the leader that I wanted a side of collard greens and I would be closing up my bill because I explain the situation and then she kept trying to convince us to stay which made my daughter highly uncomfortable because she had already made up her mind that she wanted to leave and she can see what's on the menu we didn't need the waitress repeating it to us creating an awkward moment. After that, she was a little dismissive and rude, which was weird to me because I didn't do anything for her. She wasn't blatantly like saying anything wrong, but her behavior was definitely unwarranted like she threw the boxes on the table rather than passing it to us like she was just kind of weird. I tipped her 25%, though. I hope that when she looks at that, she feels bad about how she then treated us after we said we were going to leave. Not to say 25% under the dollar bill, there's a lot, but it was a lot more than she deserved for how she treated us after we said we were going to leave. It's really cold in there, too. The restaurant itself is kind of gloomy, like one half is dark, one half is really lit, the bathrooms are really dark, and Dolly Parton is everywhere, which is kind of cute. There's a little tattoo machine in there like the quarter tattoo machines. Be ready to fight for parking because though there is street parking by meter, it is Fenway, and it is hard to find parking. I didn't like the collard greens they were like garlic buttery kind of I don't know. I can't even describe what I was saying, but it wasn't for me. What stole the show was the biscuits I got a bucket of four and oh my goodness it was so freaking delicious I may go back there just to keep eating the biscuits not to mention the butter that butter must have been made from a Heavenly cow cuz yum.
Nice choice after we viewed the Gardner museum which is a ten minute walk even on a rainy day on a Saturday afternoon. Service was friendly. Get the biscuits and a brisket burnt ends sandwich. Side salad was also very good with Brussels sprouts hazelnuts and other ingredients!
Fried chicken is delicious ?
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Buttermilk Biscuits
I recently went to Sweet Cheeks Q for dinner with a few friends and had a sort of bizarre experience. The food was fine; I was happy enough with my fried chicken and sides. But my meal was soured by a sitcom-esque debacle.When I ordered, I explicitly asked about whether the fried chicken (not tenders) came with any “scoops.” The tenders come with one “scoop,” and it’s unclear on the menu if that applies to all the chicken or just the boneless. Our server responded that not only does the fried chicken come with one scoop, it could come with two! She also offered me a dipping sauce, ranch or blue cheese. Our food came, we ate it, we then had an extraordinary long wait for some additional biscuits that my friend had asked for to-go at the beginning of our service.But then the bill came. I looked and saw the kitchen appreciation fee, which is always a slight annoyance given that it seems like a sly way of increasing prices without the customer internalizing them. But that’s generally accepted, so ok. But then I noticed I was charged for three extra items — 3 dollars for blue cheese (!), 5 dollars for by broccoli (side 1) and 6.50 for my potato (side 2).I politely asked the server to correct the charges for the sides (I had resigned myself to paying for the blue cheese, 3 dollars is crazy but ok). Instead of deducting them from the bill, she stated that yes, the sides did come with the chicken (as part of a meal), but no, that didn’t affect the price of the sides. She seemed completely unaware that her response to my earlier question was completely misleading. As if ordering the chicken gave me the right to order the precious sides, which is only reserved for customers that are turning their entree into a “meal.”Obviously when I asked the question comparing the tenders and the normal fried chicken, I was asking whether the chicken included a side as a part of the price, as the boneless does. I certainly hope I would be allowed to order any number of sides I would want with anything. I would not have ordered sides if I had known they would have cost more, hence why I asked in the first place.I never write reviews, but this was probably one of the most insane misunderstandings I’ve ever experienced. I understand that miscommunications happen, but the fact is that I was offered no consolation or even acknowledgement that I was misled. Hopefully my experience will help the next unwary diner, or help them avoid an establishment that seems unconcerned with deceiving their customers out of their hard-earned money without even giving them the respect of a legitimate apology.
I can’t speak to the quality of the food necessarily, it seemed just fine to me but I wouldn’t consider myself a BBQ expert by any means.What was off was the service- it was Sunday night around 7PM, the dining room was beginning to fill up and I think only one server on the floor. She was very kind and helpful but a few things left a bad mark on my impression-1) our bucket of biscuits arrived (they’re fine, nothing special, the jam tasted a bit old) and only one of the 4 of us was given a plate before we asked for more.2) when our food came we had no forks and had to ask for those as well3) one of my friends ordered coleslaw and I ordered the baked potato as a side and we were both given potato salad instead. Our server walked by our table several times as I tried to get her attention. She wasn’t particularly slammed as I saw her standing and chatting with a friend sitting by the window. Once she did manage to check in with us I mentioned the switch up and she said “oh yeah, we’re actually out of baked potatoes so instead of asking you I figured you would want the potato salad instead” which is just….a crazy thing to do????? Like, to knowingly ring in a guests order wrong and then not mention it when the food gets dropped or check in about it until you’re flagged down is just bad service.At that point I had been sitting waiting to eat because I wanted what I had actually ordered so I said it was fine and we continued on. All in all nothing egregious but just kind of a weird experience. And then what seemed like the floor manager asked if our bill was all set, took it off our table and then stood glaring at our sever (who was now very busy and running around) to give it to her instead of ringing it himself. Weird vibes.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 2
Great food and easy to access from the MBTA Subway's Green
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Ok, they keep me waiting, I waited 37 minutes to receive an order, it's not nice at all.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Honey butter biscuits were delicious but the night only went downhill from there.Each meal came with an unpleasant surprise sauce or side that was not explicitly stated on the menu and overpowered the dishes (random pickles, sour cream, hot sauce drizzled all over a sandwich unrequested).Must have been a bad batch of brisket because the meat was dry and the bbq sauce was sour with vinegar. The buns were also sad.Service was abysmal for Sunday night with around five seated tables in the restaurant. While our server was busy chatting up the other tables, there were several others just standing on the floor staring at tables and not doing anything to speed up service. Also our table did not have plates and when we asked for them they arrived wet.Sticker machine was cool I guess.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 3
Service: 1
Recommended dishes: Biscuits with Honey Butter
The food was good but maybe Boston is not the place to get barbecueShout out to Chase who made ordering
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 3
Service: 5
I’m from the south and am picky about my bbq, I’m not gon lie this was some of the best I’ve had! Kept everything to its roots no spicy Mac and cheese just delicious breaded and original bbq goodness. Ty for everything!
Guys I'm gonna be honest don't waste your time at this place. The food is not good and is WAY too over priced. If I could give a 0 stars I would. The server LITERALLY charged us 20% gratuity on our bill for a big party when we were a party of 5 and on the menu IN SMALL, says the gratuity is applied on a party of 6 or more. Never again. Also don't get the wings they were so bad.
Restaurantji Recommends
Excellent barbecue place. Great place for dinner. Very friendly and helpful waitstaff. Nice atmosphere with tv’s to watch Sports games in.
Awesome BBQ spot in the Fenway area. Biscuits are amazing. Great smoked meats!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Buttermilk Biscuits, BBQ Chopped Brisket, With Honey Butter, Biscuits with Honey Butter
Small place, but very cozy. The food was good but some of my food was room temperature when it came
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Pepper Potatoes, Biscuits with Honey Butter, Pork Ribs
We went to Sweet Cheeks BBQ for our anniversary and woah was that a mistake. I'm telling you now this place is a tourist trap. The staff was friendly and kind, this isn't about them. This is about their food, I had their 3 meat combo with burnt ends, ribs and sausage. The biscuits were the best thing there. If you're going here just get a bucket of biscuits. First, the ribs had no bark, no seasoning and no smoke flavor. The sausage was tasteless, it didn't taste of spices or pork, and the burnt ends were hard. My husband pulled pork, pork belly, and brisket. The pulled pork was okay, it wasn't amazing, it was better than all the other meats we had. The pork belly lacked the gelatinous fat that is a hallmark of pork belly, it also had less flavor than that pre cooked pork belly you get at Trader Joe's. The brisket was dry and lacked bark. They describe themselves as Texas BBQ but I can tell you that the state of Texas would not want to be associated with this overpriced facsimile. The sides were okay, but none of them could make up for the disappointing meat.If you're in the area, go to Loretta's instead.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 2
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Buttermilk Biscuits
I was so excited to try this place, and I should have checked the menu before I went. I went with my daughter, and she does not eat pork, and that was a challenge because the majority of their menu is port. They do have other options like chicken and beef, but it's like brisket and fried chicken, which my daughter I was not feeling it. So I told the leader that I wanted a side of collard greens and I would be closing up my bill because I explain the situation and then she kept trying to convince us to stay which made my daughter highly uncomfortable because she had already made up her mind that she wanted to leave and she can see what's on the menu we didn't need the waitress repeating it to us creating an awkward moment. After that, she was a little dismissive and rude, which was weird to me because I didn't do anything for her. She wasn't blatantly like saying anything wrong, but her behavior was definitely unwarranted like she threw the boxes on the table rather than passing it to us like she was just kind of weird. I tipped her 25%, though. I hope that when she looks at that, she feels bad about how she then treated us after we said we were going to leave. Not to say 25% under the dollar bill, there's a lot, but it was a lot more than she deserved for how she treated us after we said we were going to leave. It's really cold in there, too. The restaurant itself is kind of gloomy, like one half is dark, one half is really lit, the bathrooms are really dark, and Dolly Parton is everywhere, which is kind of cute. There's a little tattoo machine in there like the quarter tattoo machines. Be ready to fight for parking because though there is street parking by meter, it is Fenway, and it is hard to find parking. I didn't like the collard greens they were like garlic buttery kind of I don't know. I can't even describe what I was saying, but it wasn't for me. What stole the show was the biscuits I got a bucket of four and oh my goodness it was so freaking delicious I may go back there just to keep eating the biscuits not to mention the butter that butter must have been made from a Heavenly cow cuz yum.