ALL that evangelising dirty food tub-tumping at Red’s True Barbecue shouldn’t disguise the fact that nobody in town does Southern American scram better than their Albert Square outpost.
These guys do their research in person across the Pond and he results are plain to see in their new menu. Witness (and Hallelujah as Red’s might holler) their messy sandwich revelations. Such as Pitmaster S’Wich (£8.95), featuring Black Angus brisket, cheese and jalapeño smoked sausage and pulled pork with tangy slaw and The Sleepy James (£11.50) – made up of southern fried chicken breast between two hyper-sweet waffles. The latter is named after “our friend Sleepy, who we met at Dodge Gas Station, Memphis”. Like you do. Add on a side of the returning Frickles (fried pickles) and the sweet potato cornbread (made with sweet potato and topped with maple syrup) at £1.95 apiece.
The Dirty Tomahawk (main pic) is a new sharing feast that is for a minimum four folk with one hour notice and costs £40 a head with a bucket of beer thrown in. It includes two 1kg-plus ribeye steaks grilled on hot coals, plus burnt beets, bacon-wrapped jalapeños, swine fries and that’s just for starters. (The one in our main pic is for two, which you can arrange f you pay a supplement.)
Or you could mooch around the Small Plates options such as the eight-hour-smoked Ox Cheek Bone Luge (7.95), which adds in a shot of bourbon and follow with Toasted Marshmallow Sweet Potato Pie (below). A new Now Safe For Work Lunch menu, meanwhile, offers seven quick-and-easy options at £6.95 each.
Red’s, Albert Square, 22 Lloyd Street, M2 5WA. 0161 820 9140, www.truebarbecue.com
