BBQ Joint
Baby Blues BBQ
Decent BBQ in Venice with pretty good ribs, but steep prices for lunch and slow service make it a mixed bag.
Details
- Address
- 444 Lincoln Blvd. Venice, CA
- Phone
- (310) 396-7675
- Style
- Memphis-style
- Price
- $$$
Los Angeles has many well-established BBQ restaurants and some not-so-well-established. On a recent BBQ food adventure with a couple of gentlemen from L.A. Dining, the food blog, we discovered that you could find decent BBQ in Venice, if you were willing to pay the price.
Maybe our ordering strategy was wrong? We were trying to order a little bit of everything.
Two plates to share between the three of us is all that we ordered. How could it come out to $23 a person? They were the most expensive plates on the menu, and BBQ is never truly inexpensive.
Why was the food so cold? Well, we did spend a lot of time photographing it.
I don't think it was horrible, and their ribs were pretty good. The service was a bit slow for lunch — we were there for over an hour — but the waitress was very enthusiastic. Prices were steep for lunch. I'd probably go with a BBQ sandwich next time: cheaper and quicker.
**Baby Blues Bar-B-Q**
444 Lincoln Blvd, Venice
(310) 396-7675