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Woodyard Bar-B-Que
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- Price Range:
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- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Alcohol:
- Beer & Wine Only
7 reviews for Woodyard Bar-B-Que
I'm giving it 5 stars for the smoked meats alone. The sides are average, although the ambiance is perfect for a place that the late Arthur Bryant would call a "grease house." The pitmaster knows his meat, knows his wood and knows his smoker.
The specials are a great deal, anyone in the southern Wyandotte County, northern Johnson County would do themselves a solid by giving it a try. We come over from the other side of downtown KCMO. Easy to find from I-35 or I-70.
Best buy, the slab special on Saturday, 2 for $25. We get one each, baby back and spare.
If you smoke your own, they do a big business selling wood to some of the best competitive smokers around.
They're open M-S, specials every day.
One of our objectives on a short trip to visit our son in KC was to pickup some wood for smokin'. The Woodyard was the recommendation. We got some great pecan, and a fabulous lunch.
The Woodyard is unique, a nearly 60-year-old local business that has been known for its wood and recently went into the restaurant business. The Wednesday lunch special - $6.95 for a smoked half chicken and two sides was an incredible bargain.
We also went with a smoked brisket sandwich. Both were good, the chicken being the better deal.
You order inside the old house, with seating inside and out. We opted for outside to watch Mark turning the ribs and brisket in the huge outdoor smokers which had been going all day.
I know The Woodyard is starting to get a really positive reputation, and we loved it. Plus, I'm going back to Utah with 30 pounds of pecan.
Basically the Woodyard is a humble barbecue operation run out of the bottom floor of a semi-dilapidated house on the South side of Merriam Lane. The place doubles as a literal woodyard, and the parking lot is basically a big gravel pit surrounded by piles of various kinds of chopped wood.
The food is prepared well and the experience is thoroughly enjoyable. Beans were very good but almost certainly dressed up canned beans. The potato salad was run of the mill. The cole slaw was average. The pulled pork, however, was extremely interesting. It lacked the bite that hickory smoked woods give to meat, and was most likely cooked with some sort of fruit wood. But it had an amazing, buttery consistency and very good flavor. The ribs were similarly smoked but a little fatty for my taste.
The 4 stars are for super friendly staff, good prices, and amazing laid back atmosphere.
the Woodyard is in an industrial area of Kansas City....odd mix of nascar and po' latino and white folk. The clientele had a feel of everyone being a regular...a whiter, fatter version of Arthur Bryants (and the food is not as good, but you won't get yelled at either.).
I ordered the short ribs dinner (slaw, beans, 2 pieces of white bread, and french fries.). Solid meal. Huge amount of food for the cost. The beans were bad and gritty (it's hard to screw up beans, but they did). The slaw was great, french fries were french fries. But let's get to the star of the show: the ribs.
The meat was well-cook and the BBQ sauce (not sure which one I had) worked well with meat.
I'd like to give it 3.5 stars, but 3 is what you get on yelp.
Smokin since 1930....
and it shows! this little piece of bbq nostalgia was something a friend and i had stumbled upon when looking for a place to eat...and i do mean stumbled. first of all, it is located in the middle of nowhere and is barely visable from the rest of its surroundings with the exception of a hand-painted sign with the daily special written on it. woodyard is exactly that a woodyard where they sell wood for smoking, and as such only serves bbq 5 days a week for lunch only.
enough about the history and let's get to the food! 4-stars, only because their sausage was not homemade and i was expecting everything here to be entirely rustic. but don't let that comment deter you, they smoke everything else from the cow and pig to the chicken. ribs were prepared dry-rub style and had a nice smokiness and tenderness to them. the brisket was tender, moist, and sliced thin (i prefer thick for more flavor, but that's a personal preference). the chicken was out of this world tender, juicy, and ole' so smokey! the bbq sauce was homemade, tangy, and peppery.
this is the way bbq should be eaten!
The food is worse what I'm expected. I ordered burnt end combo and it didn't look like a burnt end....look like a beef sandwich. Taste is really salty, beans is nasty and coleslaw is bad. Price is ok.
An undiscovered gem. Great food, nice folks.
We took a BBQ trip to Kansas City from California... yum. We narrowed it down from over 100 BBQ restaurants to seven from all of the postings around the web (chowhound and other KC BBQ sites, etc) and this was definitely one of our favorites...
Great food. We had the sampler lunch special for about $6, which was a great way to try everything and probably the best value that we had during the whole trip. I would especially try the burnt ends and brisket... though we heard the chili was a winner as well. Their daily lunch specials were all about $5-6, which seemed like a great deal.
The place is in a little house... and behind they sell wood to many of the other BBQ places that we hit up on our trip.
The whole staff there was great and they even talked to us about the history of KC BBQ once we told them what we were up to.
After a BBQ marathon, this was one of probably two places that really stood out for us.
Too bad we're not in KC, so we can enjoy it more often.
They seem to be closed on Mondays and you might want to call ahead for hours, but they are definitely open each day for lunch.
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4/19/2007 First to Review
An undiscovered gem. Great food, nice folks.
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