Cuisine:

• American
• Barbeque, Grill

City Barbecue Description:

City Barbeque

Cuisine featuring BBQ, beef brisket, pulled pork, ribs and other entrees priced from $5 to $18. Side dishes are made from scratch. No children's menu is offered. They offer off-site catering, including a unique whole smoked hog (ordered two weeks in advance) for $349 or you can order carry-out large pans of side dishes and BBQ meats.
The official history of this Columbus based chain of restaurants:
Founder Rick Malir had a fantasy of running his own restaurant, while working in management at John Deere corporation. When the chance encounter with a friend of a friend's barbecue sauce landed on his tongue, Rick thought, "Carpe Diem" and seized the opportunity. "Where did you get this?" he asked the woman who furnished the sauce. "From my boss," she said. The rest is history.
Rick soon wangled a meeting with the sauce maker, local financial planner and culinary guru Jim Budros, who, amazingly, also harbored dreams of running a barbecue business. So did Jim's friends John Kean and Mike Taylor, an orthopedic surgeon and attorney, respectively, who barbecued as a hobby. The threesome won the barbecued brisket category at the American Royal Barbecue Championship in Kansas City in 1997 by besting 350 other teams.
City Barbeque was born of this relationship of hobby chefs in December 1999, when the first restaurant opened in the Columbus suburb of Upper Arlington. The premise behind "The City," as its owners call it, is to invite all the people in the city to enjoy great barbecue-America's food.
The original City Barbeque is in a barely remodeled former donut shop that seems like it's always full with barbecue fans wolfing down copious servings of fine pulled pork, beef brisket, chicken and, of course, ribs, all with whatever trimmings they want. You're well advised to taste the food before adding any of the barbecue sauces or other condiments: the deep, yet not-too-aggressive smoking is combined with the right spicing. The chicken is especially notable. Be advised that there may be a minimum order for eating in, and that you may need to carry out your order if you don't feel like waiting for a seat.


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