BBQ Perfection Reviewed by ClarkOPKS on
2010-03-11T16:04:27Z
Jack Stack is great. Food is wonderful, service is what it should be. HOWEVER, somewhere along the line, KC BBQ decided it need to go "upscale" - a bbq restaurant with white table clothes??? What's the point? Jack Stack is trying to compete with KC Masterpiece and I think they're already as good or better. But they have sacrificed atmosphere for a little suburban snobbery. It does not wear well. Jack Stack must be on your must-eat-at BBQ joints, right after SmokeHouse BBQ. I recommend the Martin City location on 135th Street just east of State Line.
Great Food! Great Value! Reviewed by CDRKMP on
2009-07-27T14:59:34Z
Four of us spent a week in KC primarily to sightsee and sample KC BBQ cuisine. We visited Arthur Bryant's, Oklahoma Joe's and Fiorella's Jack Stack and were unanimous in our feeling that Fiorella's was the best of the three. Very friendly wait staff, reasonable prices, many menu selections to choose from... well worth the 30 to 40 minute wait for table seating. The BBQ ribs, baked beans and slaw were the best I've had anywhere... and I always go to at least 1 BBQ place when I travel. I will definitely eat there again if I visit KC.
Pros: Best BBQ meal I had in KC
Cons: waiting time
Good place to take the family & kids ... but there's better barbeque to be had elsewhere. Reviewed by jayhawk98 on
2007-11-27T14:31:30Z
My wife and I ate at Fiorella's Jack Stack Barbeque on the recommendation of some of her co-workers. We've just returned to the KC area after living in the SF Bay Area for the last 9+ years and are ready to dive into all the Barbeque we can possibly take (check out my review for Oklahoma Joe's). I won't say that we were disappointed, Jack Stack is definately better than most of the places we were able to find in California, but I still left there feeling like it's more of a family-oriented restaurant than a authentic barbeque joint.
First, there's the sauce. The waitress (who was very nice) asked us if we would like the regular and spicy or just the regular and, of course, we went with both ... but I swear I couldn't tell them apart. Both tasted ok, but neither even approached spicy and both were forgettable.
Second, the meat was far too smokey. I know that some people, my father-in-law included, like their barbeque to taste like burned wood, but the smoke is so overwhelming that it is the only after taste that lingers ... we have left overs in our refrigerator that smell very similar to our fireplace.
Now, I'm not saying it's all bad - the beans and creamy cheese corn are amazing sides, well worth picking up from there and getting your meat elsewhere.
