Henry's homemade sauce, macaroni salads, whisky pudding,  tri tip , rib, and chicken are out of this world. I have traveled all over this country, lived in Texas and Alaska. i have runfood service establishments but pardner you want eats? Then come on down to Henry,s! The best in the west!

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Baked?  Um, the little black metal box on wheels of to the side is called a BBQ Pit, folks, but what should I expect from a state that has no BBQ tradition.  Anyway, onto the food.  Pulled pork?  This is definitely different from either of the North Carolina styles, eastern and western.  I ordered the three item combo, pulled pork, ribs, and tri tip.  The pulled pork was moist, not dry like so much of the chopped pork I was raised on.  Good flavor, not overly smokey, I bet it would be great on a sandwich.  The ribs were the wild card for me.  Most places who serve cook ribs don't do it right.  Too many of the "gourmet" restaurants due to their culinary school influences braise their ribs the attempt to finish them on the grill with burned sauce.  Others use gas grills resulting in ribs that are dry and flavorless.  Henry's ribs were obviously BBQed.  They were tender, moist, flavorful and cooked low and slow enough that the bones moved freely in the meat.  The tri tip, which is something you don't find back east, was very good as well.  I will have to try and get my local grocery store to get some of that in.  I ordered the sauce on the side for all of the meats since BBQ is all about the meat!  The sauce was surpirising!  I must confess that I do not generally like most BBQ sauces.  There have been four sauces that I have really liked.  One made by a friend of mine, Mark, using a home canned tomatoes with habaneros, one made by Bob using Chipotle peppers, an eastern style sauce my grandmother used to make which would light you up, and a blackberry vinegar based sauce I had in Asheville.  Henry's sauce was very good and now makes the list of those I like. It is more reminiscent of a KC style sauce.  It started out sweet and finished with a bit of a spicy bite.  Well done on the sauce!  The sides offered sounded good to me but I settled for a salad, my one concession to the doctor's orders to get a little more green to my diet.

I saw that they had bread pudding on the menu and the sample that I tried was very good.  It would do Commander's Palace justice!  This is a must try if you like BBQ.  I hope my job brings me bake through the area or at least a long road trip brings me back.

 

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been here a few times...the waitress is very friendly, and always remembers us.  very local feel...

the burgers and chicken are great...my fella likes the pork sandwich.  its great food for what it is - local, homemade, nothing fancy, but tasty.  way way way way WAY better than willys, the only other "barbecue" place in monterey.  

have to give it a serious nod for being budget friendly as well...two of us can eat there, drink there, and tip well for less than 40 bucks...

 

 

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