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Bofinger Barbecue Smokehouse
Category: Restaurants Barbeque Barbeque [Edit]
5667 Rue Sherbrooke OMontréal, QC H4A 1W6
(514) 315-5056
- Hours:
Mon-Sun 11 am - 11 pm
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Price Range:
-
$$
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Delivery:
- Yes
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- No
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Wi-Fi:
- No
- Good For:
- Lunch, Dinner
- Alcohol:
- Beer & Wine Only
- Noise Level:
- Very Loud
- Has TV:
- Yes
10 reviews for Bofinger Barbecue Smokehouse
10 reviews in English
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Review from Elleni T.
4/8/2012 1 Check-in Here
Pulled pork....drool.
Pulled pork poutine....double drool.
Love all the options with the fixins' and the sauces. -
Review from Bobby A.
2/3/2012
Don't bring your vegetarian friends here! They'll be insulted!
Seriously, this has to be carnivore heaven! The beef ribs here look like something Fred Flintstone would munch on - they're HUGE! Not a lot of meat, lots of bone, lots of sticky and dirty fingers afterwards hence the rolls of paper towels at each table.
With pulled pork sandwiches, BBQ chicken, sausage, burgers, pork ribs, beef ribs, chilli, fries, mac'n cheese, you can stuff yourself silly here.
I lived in the States for a while and while it doesn't even come close to the BBQ smokepits of our neighbors to the south, where they've pretty much perfected it to an art form in places like Tennessee, Texas, Kansas etc. Bofinger will get you buy if you need a fix. -
Review from Jay W.
Montréal, QC
4/18/2012
When Bofinger's first opened in '06 me thinks, the food was off the charts. Lineups out the door, people singing its praises, it was a great place to go for somewhat-authentic-bbq.
Apparently the owner made a million in his first year. How did he repay us? by determining that we were idiots that would keep going even if he went from selling us fresh out of the smoker bbq to refrigerated lower quality ribs that he ships in from his industrial kitchen in TMR.
These days I'll go 2 or 3 times a year, usually when I have forgotten the mediocre experience of my last visit.
Terribly over rated, but now its attendance is matched to its quality (i.e. not at all).
I wish I could recommend somewhere else, but Montreal is a haven for mediocre food at good food prices. -
Review from Tara F.
Montréal, QC
8/13/2011 1 photo
Honestly, I'm not entitrely sure why all the hype about this place. People in Montreal have been going bananas over it since it opened a few years ago.
It's casual - you order at the counter, choose a booth, and when your food is done they yell out your name like there is no tomorrow and you pick it up. You choose a meat, a sauce, a side, and create your own customised plate.
The food was somewhat disappointing - We tried the BBQ chicken and the pulled pork sandwich. Both tasted much more like the sauce they were covered in than the smoky BBQishness I was after. -
Review from Rodene R.
10/17/2010
Let me just say, I was so eager to find good food in Montreal. I had long long long detailed lists of different restaurants to try, and about 80% of them were barely decent.
Soooo...one day, walking around the neighborhood where Complexe Les Ailes is located, I ended up bumping into this place. It was one of the ones recommended but I didn't go out of my way to visit.
OH, this is that BBQ PLACE!
Walking in the day we went was probably a slow day, because no one was in there, at all. It was a Saturday. Around noon. Hey now, I wasn't complaining, no lines and crowds = perfect. Just a little curious why it was completely empty.
The location is great, but the parking in Montreal is completely brutal overall.
Inside Bofinger:
high ceilings, open & spacious, fun seating, and you know what, its kind of like sitting in a big BBQ Grill or something. I don't know. Know what I mean though??
The employees were really helpful and nice. Quite attentive, probably because no one else was there. They didn't even scrutinize me for not eating meat, and only ordering the BBQ Portabello without pork. Oh, and we also ordered mac n' cheese, baked beans and fries (but definitely not poutine.)
The portions were okay, the Portabello was quite a mess, but that's what napkins are for. The side portions were small, I'm American, so I can say that. The sauces were good, but not the best.
I heard the pulled pork wasn't as good as other places, but I can't personally comment. All I can remember clearly was that I was stuffed, and had a lot of leftovers.
More people started to show up as we were leaving, so it wasn't deserted the whole time.
I'm sure I'll find myself in Montreal in the future, and maybe I'll be eating meat by then.
Not a place I'd fly out to visit, but if I'm in the area, sure.
Good for big groups! -
Review from Mathieu B.
Roxboro, QC
6/26/2009
I stoped going there 'cause it's going to kill me! Still 5 stars!
I LOVE this place. Some excellent ribs. the cheapest i've found and REALLY NATURALLY SMOKED! No fake stuff here. The sauces are awesome and I've been to the one downtown near University and Ste-Catherine and it's the best and biggest poutine i've eaten. Cheap as well! 4,99$ for a Poutine with real homemade sauce (no bullcrap can sauce that is so acid it'll kill you when you'll burp). I've eaten pretty much all the menu, no deception nowhere. I've also been on the one in the WestIsland on Des Sources (Galerie Des Sources). It's not the best but still pretty simular. Beer is also pretty cheap and you are really comfortably seaten on the typical Leather bunks. with a flat screen tv showing Sports and some Rock N Roll music playing on the Background. (I recon some Sun Record Compilation of Rock N Roll / Blues)
Staff is super friendly. They like their client and Downtown they are passionate about what they do. -
Review from D D.
Montréal, QC
5/5/2010
No good.
Sloppy pulled pork sandwich with vegetables and crap stuffed in the bun. Choking on pickles and banana peppers.
Montreal has so much good food. Don't waste your time and energy here.
Fries were ok though, so 2 stars for that... -
Review from Darcy K.
Montréal, QC
1/18/2010
Fun place with good food!
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Review from Karl H.
Cote Saint-Luc, QC
1/17/2009
Excellent southern barbecue restaurant for ribs, chicken. Best place for this style in town.
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Review from darin r.
Toronto, ON
11/9/2009
I guess this place is good value because you receive a ton of really terrible food with terrible service at a cheap price. The food is always cold, the sides are terrible (except for the coleslaw), and the service is terrible - whenever I have gone it is like a bunch of high schoolers are running the place. Last time I went half the tables weren't cleared, there was no cutlery to eat with and I had to ask for it 6 times and wait 5 minutes to get anything, and after I did I had a door slammed in my face. A friend of mine said it was worse that a school cafeteria - I would have to agree.
