I've been seeing Uncle Tom's BBQ from the outside for the past 20+ years. A few months back I decide to drop in during lunchtime. The decorations are cool, lots of old pictures of people who've visited including celebrities, sports stars, movie stars, etc. It made me think ""Gee this place must've been something years ago and has some history behind it.""\r
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The whole staff was low class chusma Cuban. No white/anglos or blacks to be found in staff or patrons. The bartender was one rude Cuban woman who had just gotten off the raft, didn't speak English. It took her about 10 minutes to get around to me and she had the rude attitude of someone who doesn't care for customer service.\r
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I ordered a churrasco steak that was $8 or $9 bucks and it tasted like a piece of shoe leather, dry, withered up and tasteless. The beer was $2 or $3 I think which was fine. Upon receiving the bill I find that gratuity is already included! Thats right, the tip was built in. No wonder the staff was so crappy, they must know the regulars won't leave them an actual tip for them to take home so the service and food suffers. I could understand gratuity being included in places near the airport since tourists don't tip but at Uncle Tom's Cabin?? WTF??\r
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A few months later I'm thinking to myself ""Maybe I went on an off day, and maybe I should've gotten a BBQ pork sandwich, not a churrasco, after all it is Uncle Tom's BBQ"" So I go again during lunch time and the same staff and low class Cuban crowd is there. I order a Budweiser pint and the bartender returns with a bottle of budweiser. I tell him ""I asked for a draft, do you guys have draft beer, you know, CERVEZA DE BARRIL?"" And the guy is lost, so I don't want to be rude and say, hey thanks this is good, its nice and cold.\r
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I order a BBQ pork sandwich and what comes back is horrible! Its dry and bad quality meat in stale bread that had been re-heated. No matter how much BBQ sauce I put on the stuff it tasted horrible.\r
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Pros: This might've been a cool place 30 years ago.
Cons: Horrible staff. Horrible service. Horrible food.
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