Let me give a little background on our experiences with new restaurants. Our history typically has been that if a new place opens, especially a new local restaurant opens up and we visit the establishment just after it opens, chances are if we like the place, it will close just after our visit. If we don't like it, it will stay open. I know, I know we are restaurant killers.
However, there are those rare occasions that a new restaurant opens and we enjoy it and guess what...they will will stay open. So tonight I'm considering my real first blog to be my first restaurant critique.
So tonight, Randy and I tried a new place. It's called Sonny Bryan's Smokehouse just off State Street and 114th South in Draper.
We walked through the door, we were greeted with the comforting smell of delicious varieties of smoked meat wafting through the air. Can you say "aaaahhhhhh!!"
We were greeted by the menu-knowledgeable cashier, less her happy face. No really she was really quite helpful in guiding us towards our selection. We choose to share the 3/4 lb combo plate. This combo plate includes your choose of three of the several varieties of smoked meat including pulled chicken, pulled beef, jalepino sausage, pulled pork, chopped or sliced brisket, and smoked ham. We decided to try the smoked pulled beef, the smoked pulled chicken and the chopped brisket. Plus two Southern-style comfort food side dishes. So we chose the coleslaw and home-style green beans.
While we were waiting for dinner to arrive, a very happy gentleman by the name of Thomas stopped by our table with this enormous bowl of fresh out-of-the-oven home style rolls. These rolls were so warm the butter didn't have a chance...it was melted before Thomas gave us the rolls!!!
We had just barely finished devouring these oven-fresh delicacies when our meal had arrived! I went to the "FIXINS" bar and grabbed a bottle of Sonny's Famous Sauce. The sauce was in recycled glass bottles and it's tastes like it's made fresh...not your ordinary grocery store barbecue sauce.
I have to say how impressed we were that even though Sonny's is the typical sit-down fast food restaurant our meal was served on individual enamel-ware dinner plates and real stainless steel utensils.
The food was wonderful! The chopped brisket was my favorite and Randy really enjoyed the pulled chicken. And then came even more fresh rolls.
As we finished up with dinner, we noticed that there was constant flow of customers streaming through the door and the place was beginning to fill up. During this observation, we really noticed the decor. Sonny's originated from Dallas, Texas in 1910. The interior walls are decorated with exposed weather-worn wooden slates, corrugated steel roofing panels, neon beer lights and Texas memorbila throughout. Also the walls are lined with matted frame after matted frame of nationally acclaimed restaurant critiques, including a framed letter to Sonny's grandfather from Julia Child herself thanking him for the suburb service and excellent food!!
We will most definitely be going back to Sonny's to try their ribs!!!
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