BBQ STACK HOUSE RIO RANCHO NM PLUS

BBQ STACK HOUSE RIO RANCHO NM PLUS

It will take a while, however, before the number of visits to Rub-N-Wood will equal the one-hundred plus visits I made to the Smokehouse over the years. My willpower lasted a whole day and things went so well, I returned the following day. Though it’s not normally a good practice for critics to visit a new restaurant until it’s had a chance to iron out any start-up problems, the intoxicating aroma of barbecue wafting through the air was too irresistible. Rub-N-Wood (no double entendre intended) opened its doors on Friday, August 2nd. Having sampled Rub-N-Wood’s ‘cue, Gary was excited that Rio Rancho would be well served.

He told us a competitive barbecue team called Rub-N-Wood would be filling the void soon. The Smokehouse’s affable proprietor Gary West urged calm, assuaging those of us whose blood is the color of barbecue sauce with news that we would be without barbecue for only a short while. When the Smokehouse shuttered its doors on June 22nd, its loyal patrons were torn between wanting to fly the flag at half-mast or flying it upside down as a sign of distress.

Rio Rancho has also been the home–for nearly a quarter of a century-of the legendary Smokehouse. Rio Rancho, after all, is home to the annual Pork & Brew, the state barbecue championship sanctioned by the prestigious Kansas City Barbecue Society. No barbecue in the City of Barbecue…er, Vision, is akin to no Subarus in Santa Fe. There is no good barbecue on this planet.”Ĭaptain James Tiberius Kirk of the United Starship Enterprise never actually uttered those words, but had he visited Rio Rancho between June 22nd and August 2nd, 2013, he would have found NO barbecue–good or bad–in Rio Rancho.

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