Stephenson's Bar-B-Q
11964 NC-50, Willow Spring
(919) 894-4530
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Great bbq. Family restaurant. We have been coming here for many yrs and will keep on coming here to eat good cooking from good people with good prices.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Wife picked up dinner there tonight. Was supposed to be half fried chicken, bbq, collards and okra on each plate (2 plates). She should have looked in the plates and did not so I guess we own that error. There was no BBQ, the chicken was not fried, it was BBQ. I think it was supposed to be BBQ chicken. There was very very little sauce on it and it was bland and slimy. Collards were mush and bland, okra was decent. They did get the one sandwich that was ordered on the side correct but it was bland as well. We live quite a way from there so we are stuck with a $40 bad meal. Paid for BBQ we did not receive. To top it off my wife waited a long time because the fried chicken was still cooking. I guess it still is. Very disappointing. Our first experience there and will not go back.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Some of the best bbq I’ve ever had!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
The BBQ and Brunswick stew were excellent. The staff was southern friendly and the service was fast. A great experience.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Pulled Pork
Great service. Food came out fast. Food was delicious
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
God BBQ.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 5
Excellent! Food was very yummy and waitresses are great! I only request you switch from margarine to butter.
Great place to eat. I have been going since I was a little boy .
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Let me tell you something brother, once a week you can find me here, maybe even thrice. Top notch BBQ, sides, and service!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Pork tasted exactly how I hoped NC bbq would. I'd go out of my way to eat here again.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Restaurantji Recommends
The BEST chopped Bar-B-Q, hands down!
Food: 5
Service: 5
I visited this place on October 11.2025 looking for a good meal MY experience was terrible from the beginning. After taking my seat it was about. 10 minutes before someone took my drink order. After that no one came back. Had to go to the counter to ask someone to take me and my wife order. After we got our food no one ever came back. As I paid my bills I explained to the staff i was very very disappointed. She apologized but the damage have already been done . Never been treated like that in a restaurant before not planning on visiting that place again. 1st experience and the last.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 3
Service: 1
This was my first visit to this recommended place. As I approached the restaurant I noticed the smoke billowing up supposedly from cooking the barbecue. It is a super nice rustic setting and the staff is very friendly and accommodating to a first-time visitor. I wanted to sample as much as I could but they did not have collard greens this day. Show the plate that I got was a combo barbecue and Brunswick stew play with two sides and hush puppies. The sweet tea was very good and was delivered quickly and then came a little basket of six round hush puppies. And then the meal arrived shortly after that. I can tell you right now that the hush puppies were hard and much denser than they should have been. When the meal came the first thing I tried was the Brunswick stew. It was thin and had a strange taste and very few vegetables in. Also there was no discernible meat which any good Brunswick stew has to have. Then I tried the barbecue pork and it was minced so fine that there was nothing to chew and there was no smoke flavor. I had to douse it in that vinegar and red pepper table sauce to get it down. The baked beans were straight from a can. There were no peppers or anything in those beans to make me believe otherwise. And the flavor was very ho-hum. And of course the steamed cabbage was just that and nothing special. The last thing I tried was the barbecue chicken breast and although it was cooked properly it had no flavor at all. There was some thin sauce supposedly a barbecue sauce I suppose but it was miniscule. I was really pumped going into this place because a gentleman was waiting for his order in his Jeep outside and he said I was in for a treat. I'm really hoping that I caught them on a bad day because I would hate to think that they served this kind of food everyday. I know my friend who recommended this place will be sorely disappointed but I have eaten at many top-notch North Carolina barbecue restaurants and this one is not even close to the top. As I said the location is great and the service is wonderful. I paid $18 for the meal bumped up by the chicken breast. I cannot say it was worth the money.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 3
Service: 4
Great place for a quick meal. Southern cooking, eastern barbecue.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Pulled Pork, Dozen Hushpuppies, Pig \u0026 Chicken Combo Dark Meat, Pig \u0026 Brunswick Stew Combo, Boiled Potatoes, Spiced Apples, Pork BBQ Sandwich with Slaw
Old School BBQ great hushpuppies too. Worth the stop, fall off the bone BBQ Chicken
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