If you don’t count fast food (sorry, "quick
service") restaurants there are maybe three of four restaurants
total in Rittman. Our breakfast at the Depot
was pretty good so we thought we might exhaust the rest of the city
since it won’t take that long. We definitely would have returned to
the Depot to try the lunch/dinner menu but
they are closed. Bg’s isn’t. We parked right across the street where
apparently every Sunday their pit sits in front of the bar belching
porky smelling smoke into the atmosphere. Pollution I can get
behind. |
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Inside Bg’s is definitely a bar with some restaurant mixed in. Darts seem to be the draw in addition to the adult beverages with a single pool table a few tvs and a high tech jukebox. The Steelers are on most of the sets as the electronic dart machines tally up some friendly competition leading to league play. I could tell you a lot about the interior of the place…unfortunately.
Between the service and the kitchen I had more time to study Bg’s
than I had to study for my licensure exam. The kitchen seems to
prepare one order at a time, completing a table before starting on
the next one and we sat for an uneasy hour twiddling. I had cash
ready to leave on the table for the beverages and was ready to walk
for fifteen minutes…trying to convince Steph to join me at another
restaurant…when our dozen wings, handful of fries, already cooked
ribs and sandwich and scoops of preprepared sides were plopped onto
paper plates and then plopped on our table. Which one of those do
you think took an hour? Distressing. Not the
server’s fault again. What was her fault was dropping off our
beverages and while nearly tripping over us a dozen times, dashing
to and fro, never seemed to notice us again for an hour. Sad.
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Dry Rub Wings Best Thing We Had. Not Enough |
Why We Have The Word "Shame" |
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If you are looking for a place to drink that will eventually get you some vittles to keep you in the game, sure. If you want to eat, Bg’s will disappoint. I think the reason the remaining BeeGees look so wrinkled and crusty is they ate at Bg’s once for a laugh and left 30 years older. I think people were into Disco when we ordered...my memory is getting a little hazy after all this time.
So back to the food. Six wings twice, a pulled pork sandwich and
ribs. Sundays again is chicken/ribs day at the bar but they were out
of chicken…hence the sandwich. The ribs are overdone but have a
decent amount of smoke, a serious improvement from our last outing
at Charlie’s Tragic Rib Hole. The
sauce is a single note sweet tomato affair which needs some layers
to find any sense of maturity. The pulled pork was a worry. We have
had some very poor versions of the stuff but Bg’s again provides a
perfectly average chop with I’m assuming the same simple sauce.
There won’t be a line for BBQ around the corner here…except maybe
for the chicken. Could that be why they were out? Probably not. |
Ehhhhhh |
Had Better. Had Worse. |
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The beans were every bit as bad as
Charlie’s. Thin, watery, mush. More bean soup than baked beans.
Horrible lack of effort. The cole slaw and the potato salad
certainly appear to be a relatively generic store bought bucket type
which tastes just fine but isn’t anything you would remember. The
fries were also pretty standard. The wings were actually good enough
to interest me in traveling back to Rittman. With a thin crispy
crust very similar to Louie’s in Akron, they arrived screaming hot
in little baskets. Half of the limbs were dusted with shakey
Parmesan cheese and reclining in a pool of melted butter or
margarine but still managed to keep the crisp. The dry rub which had
been recommended by someone online was actually very good. Rangy
flavors with even a just detectable note of sweet made for
interesting and delicious wings. Worth the wait? No. Hell No! If you
happen to be playing darts, or if your car broke down in Rittman and
Triple A can’t make it for quite a while. Enjoy some wings. |
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Still Not Sure What We Waited For |
Won't Wait Again |
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Food |
Service |
Ambiance |
What's Best |
What's Worst |
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C- | D- | C | B | F | D- | ||
Wings | Side Of Anger/Bitterness |