Pork Loin

12/13/2024

Our party had 4 people and we all agreed to get a different meat and side so we could get a good idea of how everything tasted. We ended up with turkey, moist brisket, pulled pork and prime rib for the meats. The sides were potato salad, Cole slaw, baked beans, banana pudding and cobbler. Everything was amazing except for the prime rib. It was tough to cut and tougher to chew. Took it back to the counter and they couldn't have been nice about exchanging it. Got the pork loin and it was delish. I'd highly recommend this place!

11/4/2021

11/4/21:  I was "Next In Line" as they say at Rudy's BBQ.   Business is conveniently located near Interstate 25 & 40.  Lines always at lunch and dinner. This is more like a butcher shop than restaurant so please don't expect real plates: butcher block paper, trays, brown paper napkin.  And oh, BTW, I'm from Texas so I know me some Bar-B-Q. :)

Just call me SMART, not lazy because my delicious Holiday meals are ordered from here. No pots and pans to scrub because I took a shortcut thanks to Rudy's.  The sliced turkey breast, sliced ham, sliced pork loin nicely fit on my decorative platters; so moist and juicy.

I also love the breakfast tacos (served early in the morning),  jalapeño sausage, military discount and management who always remember me.  Enjoy your experience...

9/1/2019

Hands down the best turkey I've ever had. The unfortunately named moist brisket was very good, the dry brisket was pretty good.  Pulled pork and the spicy chop were full of flavor. The only real miss was the pork loin, it was just kind of bland.  The potato salad was not bad, but it was a little too sweet for my taste. Overall the best bbq place in Abq.

6/6/2016

I have a great weakness for BBQ, especially brisket. Loved this place. Not fancy. Long tables with metal folding chairs like a church carry-in dinner. I ordered wonderful lean brisket and tender pork loin. It was great. Tried the green chili stew--for a change. Huge rice krispy treat the size of a softball for only 2.50. Daughter had a huge baked potato with brisket--wonderful. The new potatoes with butter were great.

This is a place I would return to regularly if I lived closer. It was not a place for quiet conversation but a wonderful spot for good BBQ. Loved the T-shirt that a worker wore: "I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain to eat vegetables."

11/11/2015

Reaching back into the memory banks for this review, here. Way back in 2012, I discovered Yelp Albuquerque for the first time, to call it a revelation would be an understatement. The first thing I checked over were the Top 10 restaurants in ABQ. #1: Kokoro, a Japanese joint I'd never heard of. #2: Rudy's. I knew about that one. It was that BBQ spot that I liked, not local, but the meats were sure fine. It was that place where I typically waited in line a while, looking over the iced beer chests, refrigerated side items (potato salad, three bean salad), occasionally scoffing at the employees wearing those lame t-shirts that read something like "I didn't climb to the top of the food chain to eat vegetables". Great brisket, I thought. Took a while to order, but good stuff. Still, #2 in our city? How now, cow?

I don't visit this place much. It's very franchise-ee, clean, polished, everything in order, not the kind of experience I crave when a smokey barbecue grubdown is in order. Communal tables with bottles of mild and spicy sauce scattered about, plenty of paper towels for your grimy digits. But the other day, a friend ordered a takeout layout of the basics around here: turkey, pork loin and the afore-mentioned brisket. I was really hungry, I think I ate three plates, and I kept coming back to the brisket. Holy cow. (Bah-dum-bum.) So, so slammin'. Honestly, I swear upon these peppered red meaties, douse 'em in the hot sauce and prepare to be spoiled.

Second best in ABQ? Nope. Currently, Rudy's ranks at #56 on the best restaurant list. We can attribute this to 1) the astounding growth of the Yelp community over the past few years and 2)  the incredible BBQ choices that have landed in this metro since then. But Rudy's remains pretty darn fine. And if you're considering ordering a feast, my advice: just pile on the brisket. With the spicy sauce. Order a few sleds of corn on the cob. Crowd pleaser, for sure. And I don't know if they're still offering breakfast burritos, but if they are, and you're considering one, just don't do it. Don't. Steer clear. (Bah-dum-bum.)

6/10/2014

Sue, my cousin Betty and I stopped in to this joint, after foregoing the hamburger place next door.   That may have been a huge mistake.  We were on our way to return a rental car and fly home after attending another family members' funeral in Lubbock.

Rudy's has a very unnecessary and confusing layout and pricing system for their foods.  It's all up on boards and it is priced by the half pound?? (For their meats) and have no obvious indication that it is a cafeteria style approach.  We walked up and had to avoid being run over by people who seemed hell bent on getting their order in ASAP.  I had hoped this would be a delicious portend of the quality and flavor of their foods, sadly I was mistaken.

I waited for my wife to come back from the bathroom, (which she said were clean).  She's the picky one on food, I'll eat any and all BBQ especially Texas Brisket, when and where it is offered.  I love it and I was hoping for the some good eats and finally dove in to order.

They have 3 people lined up to take your order and I chose the guy in the middle in between the people fighting to get to them.  I chose the less expensive lean brisket 1/2 lb. (vs. the slightly higher, oddly stated "moist" brisket, are they telling me what I chose to order isn't moist, yes, it was as I found out later, this was another warning I let slide by), turkey 1/3 lb., (smallest on all the rest of the sides I ordered) Cole slaw, pinto beans, cobbler of the day (there were 2-blackberry and peach, I chose both) and a drink for the wife beer for me.  The young man was nice enough as he filled my order, I was somewhat surprised he volunteered that he was a transplanted 49ers fan (he noticing my Seahawks hat was he also telling me something about what he was serving me(?), after I paid and was stunned by the $30.00 ticket for such a small amount of food (?).  You pay after they weight by the half pound so it isn't so obvious apparently that you're paying $15.00 a lb. for what is essentially grocery store tub BBQ.

I didn't want to believe that he could micro-manage the taste and texture of what he served me, but the faire across the board was about as pedestrian as you can get at premium prices.  The quite surprisingly dry, almost smokeless tasting, not quite done cooking, I guess (strange textured) Brisket and turkey that had some flavor sort of(??), but still required me to soak the bun (that you had to pay for separately???) of their too vinegary regular sause or that other strange concoction they called sissy sause, yes with an "s".  The pinto beans at least were accurate in name...just plain pinto beans, no unique flavor, just like right out of a generic can.  The Cole slaw was cabbage and carrots, no dressing no dill seed no suggestion of flavor or pride in the establishment unique style(?!?).  The cobblers were fruit and raw dough and absent of flavor of any distinction.  I threw most of it out and was surprised that they asked you to clear your own stuff, your Mom doesn't work here."  This of course would have been absolutely accurate because my mother, God rest her soul, would have been completely embarrassed to work there and say that she had anything to do with presenting such "stuff", much less charge money for it.  It might be pet food, but frankly, I wouldn't feed this stuff to any animal that would be mean.  

I hate to think that the food we received truly represented what people seemed to believe is real Texas BBQ.  It was most certainly NOT, so tender it would melt in your mouth as most Texas brisket is; it was more flimsy odd textured flavorless brisket and stiff moist less very dry turkey.  I didn't try the pork loin that Betty ordered and she promptly turned away from, guess I should be take something positive from that.  

I just didn't understand why people would be in such a hurry to get this drown it in sause till its "Sloppy Joe" like, meat.  Yet they were running us down to get at this...ahh...stuff).  There must be some, actual good BBQ joints, in the Albuquerque area.   Somewhere there has to be something that is better "Texas style brisket" and more than this way over priced poor excuse for a meat vendor joint.  Please tell me there are better, tastier and hopefully cheaper places, than this Rudy's joint.  If it is a franchise, (which the locals seem to allow that that is an acceptable excuse for poorer quality than the original, apparently but not with me, it has to be reasonably good to charge money for the food I always thought, and certainly at this high price point.  But someone needs to step back and say hey, have we forgotten how to do this right?  Because right now you are doing it all wrong, and I don't think I'm the only one that thinks that.  Oh, and I'm not putting this on anyone to defend the honor of Texas BBQ in Alby, I love Alby.

5/16/2011

This is some legit BBQ. The place is amazing and clean. I would highly recommend this place for anyone enjoys good BBQ food. I had the baby back ribs and the pork loin. Both of which were cooked to perfection. I spent about 20 dollars and it was worth every penny. I wish they had one back home, that is how good it was.

4/15/2011

What can I say about the World's Worst BBQ? Not sure why that is their moniker, but I have to say it probably ranks up in the top three for Albuquerque's best BBQ. It is not your fancy dining place, as the plates are pieces of butcher paper and the utensils are plastic. Sides come in Styrofoam containers that are selected out of a refrigerated case reminiscent of a butcher's case. The drink choices are from a bin that separates the long lines from the servers/cashiers, alcoholic beverages in another bin(but the server will serve it table side), or the fountain drink machines in the corner. And the tables are pretty much long picnic tables.
All that seems passé when you take your first bite of the delicious mouthwatering pieces of meat. Whether it be the moist brisket, extra lean brisket, pork loin, chopped beef, baby back ribs or sausages. You won't even mind the frugal pieces of white or wheat bread. Now the sauce speaks for itself. The regular is pretty spicy for I cannot tell you what the "sissy" sauce tastes like.
If you plan on peak hours for lunch or dinner, expect a long line and minimal parking.

8/5/2010

Every time I go visit family I have to go to Rudy's at least once.  I know they have other options, but I always get the same thing 1/2 lb brisket 1/2 lb pork loin with a side order of potato salad and a sweet tea.  The sauces are great the atmosphere is great the staff is always friendly all in all I adore Rudy's BBQ