Hill Country Barbecue Market

10/18/09

Hate it

by rate123

A totally rude and unhelpful employee ruined this place for me. BBQ if ok but I'll never spend money at Hill Country again.

• Pros: BBQ
• Cons: Rude Employees

06/19/09

Emperor's new clothes.

by signorcolin

From day one, the PR blitz for this place has been overwhelming. But for all the hype, this place is a cheap imitation of real BBQ. Overly fatty, poorly cooked meat at ridiculous prices. I don't know why this place consistently makes Citysearch's Top 5 lists (a real coup for the PR machine, I guess). There's been a BBQ renaissance in the five boroughs in recent years. There are at least a dozen cheaper and better BBQ joints. Go to those places. Avoid this one.

• Pros: NYC now has so many better BBQ options
• Cons: Poor food quality, extremely overpriced

06/15/09

The best!!!

by CSMobileUser

Great food. Great staff. Great place.

04/25/09

Very good BBQ for ok (for NYC) proces

by harlock_jds

Ate here and got the pit master combo which was well priced (for NYC) for the amount of meat.

The pork ribs were the highlight and well certainly be what I'll order in the future. Very meaty and while pink in the middle that's not unusual for BBQ. The Beef Ribs were ok but not very meaty and kinda overcooked (not as bad as blue smokes beef ribs are but still a bit overdone). The brisket was nice and fatty (as i had asked) but i'm not a big brisket fan without sauce. It also came with some chicken which was forgettable (and kinda puny.. not that i was complaining with the amount of food i got but i wouldn't have been thrilled if i had just gotten the chicken).

For sides I got the green been casserole and deviled eggs as the sides. The casserole was very good, the eggs tasted like you'd expect them too (they were sold as chipoltie deviled eggs but i tasted no smokiness or spice to them).

However the layout of the place and the ordering process is a disaster. I went at a very uncrowded time of day and it was still a pain to get everything. I can only imagine what a nightmare it is when it gets busy. Also carrying everything back to the table was not easy. I'd think with the servers they could at least help with that. I've eaten at places in this style in Texas before and i have never seen one so badly organized.

• Pros: Pork Ribs, Sides
• Cons: ordering process, layout

04/05/09

Disappointing BBQ

by wexlers

Ordered my husband some BBQ from Hill Country after a NY based Texan said it was the best in the neigborhood.

My husband said the bbq ribs were medium rare - yuck, the beef ribs were very fatty.

I ate the chicken which was good. We typically try to order relatively healthy sides, the coleslaw and cucumber salad will good, the beans made with beacon, and the stringbeans with a cream source where extremely heavy/fattening. Wont be ordering from them again..

• Pros: on seamless web
• Cons: raw meat

02/26/09

Customer Service Could Use Some Improvement

by kimsmith12345

I've had two unsatisfactory experiences here however since the establishment is new I do hope it will change in the future as the food is good and the restaurant has a uniqueness to it. Suggested improvements are the following: customer serice, shorter wait time at the counter and carving station and nicer wait staff.

• Pros: Food
• Cons: Manager Dana and Some Carvers are Rude

01/25/09

Good TImes!!!

by biffybnyc

Fun Times -- good for celebrations. Good Drinks, Cheap Food and Everyone gets their own bill so you dont have to devide at the end of the night. You eat and drink what you can afford!!! :P

• Pros: Individual Bills
• Cons: Kitchen ran out of beer can chicken :(

01/06/09

Fun Bar & Cheapest Drinks in Chelsea/Flatiron

by barlover75

I've been looking for a great country music bar ever since I moved to the City. This place has awesome live music several nights a week with no cover and the whole staff is in jeans and cowboy boots. Plus, the drinks are some of the best prices around. Specialty drinks run the usual 8 to $10 bucks but you can get margaritas and well drinks for like $5 bucks all the time. Even though they don't have draft beer, you can get buckets of beer for cheap; and not those fake buckets of beer with the tiny little Corona bottles either, I mean actual full sized beers, six of them! My boyfriend and I love to go in late after the dinner rush, like around 9:30 or 10. They have a happy hour that starts at 10 and we got like 6 PBRs and 2 margaritas for 22 bucks PLUS the bartender (super hotty..at both upstairs and downstairs bars...upstairs Superman and downstairs Lex Luthers hotter little brother) gave us a couple of shots on the house. I am so happy that I finally found a reasonably priced bar in the City that has good music and isn't too snobby/clubby or too divey either. It's never overly crowded and hot and you never have to wait in line for the bathroom which is awesome. Sometimes, if we get there early enough (before the kitchen closes) my boyfriend and I will eat something like a Jalepeno sausage or chicken breast. It comes with bread so we usually split one sausage or one piece of chicken and make 2 sandwiches for like 6 bucks. It's plenty. Oh, the chili is to die for too! And for the booze snobs, like my brother, who think PBR is beneath them, they have like a million different kinds of whiskey and bourbon and tequila. My brother is working his way across the bar until he tries them all. Do yourself a favor, go there after the regular dinner rush, like 9 or 10, grab a bite and head downstairs to the bar for free music and cheap drinks. tons of space for large groups too. I love it.

• Pros: Cheap drinks, layed back atmosphere
• Cons: Too packed to get in until after 9:30.

01/04/09

your kids will love it!

by extraginger

Hill Country is our family's favorite restaurant in NYC. The chicken, brisket, and cupcakes are out of this world. It's super kid friendly and the prices are reasonable. It's perfect for groups also!

• Pros: a perfect bbq spot
• Cons: trying to watch my weight

01/03/09

Don't buy a gift certificate -- they will rob you!

by littlerowlf

Hill Country BBQ can't go out of business soon enough for me.

I was looking forward to giving this place a chance ... had a $75 gift certificate that was a month past expiration. We asked about it at the door, and the hostess said they couldn't accept it. We asked to see a manager, and got the same story, with a little rudeness thrown in. "Well, you did have a whole year to use it," he said. (Well then, I guess we owe you an apology.) "The computer won't accept it if it's expired," he said. (Oh my, I'd hate for the computer to get upset.) "I wish there was something I could do," he said.

So in the end, they basically stole $75 from us. What an absolutely, jaw-droppingly stupid policy, from a P.R. standpoint. If the manager had just said, "Oh, that's okay, come on in," our party of four would have spent a boatload of money beyond the value of the certificate, the servers would have earned big tips, and we may have come back and recommended the place to our friends. As it was, after a few choice words for the manager, we walked out, we will never return, and we'll tell everyone we know to avoid the place like a rat-infested KFC.

How does this place have 4 1/2 stars? The reviews seem pretty terrible overall.

• Pros: The place looked pretty empty.
• Cons: The people that run this place ARE a bunch of cons.