Bison County

BILL LAMBERT

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Friday, August 22. 2008

There's a dearth of decent Barbecue up here in the Boston Metro NW quadrant, at least nothing to write home about, especially if home happens to be around Austin or Memphis. For any sort of decent ribs, you have to snuggle up to the city, to Arlington for the Blue-Ribbon, Davis Square for Redbones, or in our case, down to Moody Street in Waltham to Bison County.

Some bizarre religious sects have organized boycotts against Bison County for its satanic motiff and excessive amounts of cholesterol.

We've stopped off there for a bite a couple of times during the past month, once with my nephew Joe, last week with S/Sgt. Matt of the Elvis Air Force.

In 2006, Bison County took "Best Ribs" first prize in the annual Boston Magazine reader's poll. Befittingly, both times the main dishes hit the mark, including Babyback ribs, spicy baked Chile Rellenos and, "Wagon Train"--a medley of grilled tenderloin, turkey and bison tips.

However, despite all the charred meaty goodness, the two visits had uneven results in the service and the side-dishes, perhaps due in part to going on a Sunday vs. Saturday. Their baked beans are prefect with the ribs, but the second time could have called bean soup: perhaps an inch of beans drowning at the bottom of a watery liquid, and cold to boot.

Matt was happy with his Wagon Train mixed grill, but the garlic mashed that came with was both watery and grainy at the same time. May loved the Chile Rellenos with habenero cream sauce, but the accompanying black bean tomato salsa was heavily vinegared, rendering the mix astringent and tasteless.

Blog from the Future Past has thousands of readers in the local area and we're sure word will get back to folks over at Bison to get their total act together and reduce the amount of undesirable liquids in their food.

I'll still go their for the ribs, though... those beauties alone get Bison County a 3.5 out of 5.

Bison County
275 Moody Street.
Waltham, MA 02453
Phone: (781) 642-9720

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 Tomato Salads

Posted by Bill Lambert in Thought for Food, Eatin' It Out at 09:28 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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