Billy Joe’s Bar-B-Q

I checked this place out last night after doing a quick search for BBQ in the Beaumont area. When I pulled up it looked the part. BBQ joints should either be shit holes or qwerky. This one was definitely closer to shit hole. That’s not a bad thing when talking BBQ joints.
I ordered the brisket plate with an extra sausage link. The plates come with 3 sides, slice of bread and extra sauce. All of this food came up to 8.93 with tax! Ridiculously cheap. My favorite BBQ item is brisket. I love a good smokey, dry rub brisket. This one may have been but I won’t know because it was dripping in bbq sauce. I like my bbq sauce and all but I want to decide if I need it or not. The sausage link was also soaked in sauce. The meat was solid but not sure if I’d say more than that. The sides were boring to bad. They give you 3 sides with an entrée but that’s just more of blah. The mac and cheese was basically wet noodles. I saw no cheese and tasted even less flavor. The dirty rice was equally tasteless. The beans were pretty solid, nothing extraordinary.
I think this place could be really good if they just let the customer ration their sauce proportions and revamped their sides. The staff is really friendly and their prices are very affordable. For now it’s adequate but that’s it.

Got the shrimp poboy to go. Worst I had in a while. Very little shrimp lots of tarter sauce when I had requested none. Will not return.

Good decent BBQ served by good decent people. Owners always make you feel welcome. My wife is Asian and did not know anything about Texas BBQ. The servers made her feel at home and took a few extra steps to make her feel welcome. They even brought her out a small sample of potato salad that she had never had. Loved it. I have eaten there since it opened. I like the pork plate and chip beef sandwich. It is a perfect end to a fishing trip out of Port Neches park.

Just went there for the first time. Not really that impressed.
The Bad: Rice had little flavor, chicken was dry, links were like something you’d buy at the store and were barely warm. Mac & cheese was greasy and not very cheesy.
The Good: Coleslaw and potato salad were good. Kinda thought with all the good reviews that we would have found a new great place to eat. Next time we’ll stick with Wrights BBQ in Vidor.

Christie D.
Groves, texas
Good food at good prices. This is a family business that cares about their customers.

Best kept BBQ secret in mid-​county! Excellent and lean bbq. Vinegar based sauce and a excellent, no non-​sense family run business… pick yourself up some!