Famous Dave's -b-que - Greshamville

Great food, but lousy delivery. Please get rid of the hopeless Door Dash drivers who don't know where they are going! I work less than a mile away, but driver clearly didn't know where he was supposed to go and food arrived 30 minutes late. Not impressed.

Shockingly disappointing! As a repeated customer of Famous Daves for many years, I am struggling to believe this is the review I have to leave. This USED to be one of the best Barbecue style restaurants in the area, without question. Unfortunately, they've made some incredibly drastic changes since our last visit, and none of them are improvements. It's no longer a restaurant in the traditional sense. It's more like a fast food joint that serves barbecue. You order before finding a seat, for example. The food is dropped off at your table fairly quickly, which seems good, until you realize that it tastes like that's because it was made yesterday. We ordered the brisket, the roasted chicken, the jalapeño cheddar sausage, and the pulled pork. The brisket was cold, a little rubbery, and absolutely NOT the fall-apart juicy brisket we'd been accustomed to in the past. Actually had to use a knife to cut it up. The roasted chicken was about room temp, and so dry even adding barbecue sauce wasn't enough, The pulled pork tasted fine, but was certainly not hot like fresh pulled pork should be. In fact the only thing that was served at what I consider proper temp was the jalapeño cheddar sausage, which while tasty, was not supposed to be the highlight of the meal. Overall, this was an abysmal visit, and certainly our last. If you visited Famous Daves before the redesign, you may not recognize anything but the name now.

I was looking for a barbecue restaurant in Madison near my hotel downtown. I chose Famous Dave's where closer to the hotel. It was very emptied when I walked in around 8pm, but a few staff were probably busy with takeaway orders, so I waited for a few mins until I was served to order. Since it was my first time dining at the famous Dave's, I asked for a recommendation after telling my favourite Barbie was ribs and beef briskets. Then I ordered 2 meat combos with 2 sides and a bottle of beer, sadly they didn't have any draft beer. I found a table next to the window and it didn't take long to get my food ready. The lady served the food to my table, well, I thought I needed to bring my food from the counter by myself. ?The rib was good, it was tender and moist and sauce was evenly covered on each rib. I think it's 85/100. But the beef brisket was too dry and I expected at least a bit of marbling and fat. The portion was good though. It is worth revisiting for the rib but definitely not for beef brisket.

Pickup order was done on time but the ribs were the worst we’ve ever had anywhere! Tough, very little meat and a terrible piggy flavor. Couldn’t eat them. So, disappointing and spent a lot of money.

We stopped coming here after they stopped running nightly specials, but I decided to get a burger with my remaining rewards… big mistake. The old guy who I think is the franchisee is WORSE than the manager who they fired! Every single employee is the personification of IDGAF ESPECIALLY the owner.