Red Chimney Bar-B-Q

817 N Canal St, Carlsbad
(575) 885-8744

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Alec Kirby

Great food and service

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Beans

Matt Schmitz

Great place all around

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Kizzy Vieux

None of our food was hot. The fried items felt old and stale. The nachos was wet and expensive for nothing. Complete rip-off.
The male server needs better training. The 5 of us were all disappointed.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 2

Service: 2

B B

My family love The Red Chimney. Great food with a great atmosphere. The best BBQ sauce! we buy it by the bottle and use it at home. Highly Recommend.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Missy Dow

Stuffed avocado was delicious!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Steve O

Avoid this place, brisket and turkey were super dry. So disappointed, took them 15 minutes to acknowledge us. And food took like 45 minutes to come out. All four coworkers were disappointed too.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Brian Hoffner

Colleen and I travel the country having barbecue in every town we can. In Carlsbad, New Mexico, we chose Red Chimney Barbecue. It was founded in 1954 and still going strong with the third generation of family, so they must be doing something right. We are eating low-carb so we started with the chef salad which was flavorful. The only critique I have for the entire dinner was That the chef salad was made with iceberg lettuce, which is so yesterday, when Romain lettuce is so much more flavorful and healthy. Onto the meat! The brisket had a very nice smoke ring, it was extremely tender and moist, even though it was very lean slices. I like that. The sauce was good, but the brisket stands on its own merit. Most barbecue places have baby back ribs, but red chimney has The more meaty spareribs. They were tender and juicy as well, not fall off the phone, but flavorful and tender. The sausage was very good as well. The menu has many interesting dishes so we will definitely be back to try some more of them. I have to say that Bree was a wonderful server and took really good care of us. The atmosphere is very nice as well. So red chimney barbecue gets five stars all the way around!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Nanci Moon

Salads are good.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Billy Cox

Takes forever to get two sandwiches waited 40 minutes

Atmosphere: 2

Service: 1

Timothy Zarybnicky

Beans were a little heavy on the salt

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

Kathleen Rodriguez

Brisket is usually very good, but this time it was a bit salty.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 3

Service: 5

Chelsey Hunt

Out of town visitors. I didn't care for it, but I am very picky about BBQ. I had the pulled pork sandwich and just wasn't impressed. I wouldn't go again. Oh, the tables were nasty sticky, too. That kind that just doesn't come off. That was a definite turn off, too.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 5

David Rice

Almost $20 for this??? I doubt there was a full strip of brisket on this so called potato. Thing was barely bigger than my fist. An absolute joke and the BBQ sauce tasted like seasoned mustard.
IDK perhaps I ordered the wrong food for this place, but at this price, that potato should have damn near took up the whole plate. My wife got turkey, mac and cheese and mashed potatoes. This and my potato was like $60. She ate about a third of it.....maybe.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 2

Service: 3

Bo Kasal

We have ordered four different meals and they all were terribly salty. The service was slow and poor. The brisket was dry and so salty that it was not edible. We did not eat. No apology, we paid full price. Avoid!

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 1

Service: 1

Bob Hester

Brisket was at least 4 days old. Service was great but the children crying and screaming just made the evening unpleasant. Should have stayed home.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 1

Service: 5

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