Tin Roof BBQ Outside Birmingham, AL on I-65

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Tin Roof BBQ Outside Birmingham, AL on I-65

Saturday, September 15th, 2007 | Food & Drink |

So on the way back from the Florida panhandle we were dying for BBQ. Melissa used her Blackberry to search for Alabama BBQ joints and found Tin Roof BBQ just south of Birmingham, barely a mile off of Interstate 65.

Despite the name, Tin Roof BBQ is in a new brick shopping mall. They made the inside grungy, I guess to suit people’s expectations for a BBQ joint.

We had the pork and beef brisket. The BBQ is good. Not incredible or sublime, but good. You won’t be disappointed. Sauces are a Carolina vinegar, a Carolina mustard, and a spicy tomato BBQ. If they had a sweet, Memphis-style BBQ sauce it wasn’t on our table.

What was really impressive were the sides. They had both creamy cole slaw and vinegar cole slaw. I ordered the vinegar cole slaw, which had just enough sugar to balance out the sour flavor. Their corn on the cob is fried, which I usually hate, but I liked theirs.

The turnip greens were porky and delicious - everything you could ask for from greens. Melissa had the fried green tomatoes and liked them. Other sides are french fries, potato salad, baked sweet potatoes, fried okra, and baked beans. Good stuff.

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