Restaurant review - Neely's Insterstate BBQ Memphis, TN

Memphis = BBQ....or so we were told.  So off we went to find the best bbq in Memphis.  Every person from Memphis we asked said a different place.  Every review site I looked at had different rankings.  There appeared to be to no clear champion, so we just picked what was near us....and we nailed it.

Neely's Insterstate BBQ.  Yes - the same Neely's as the Food Netword show.  It is his parent's place.  In fact, his mom was behind the counter and we talked with her a bit.  SO nice.... unfortunately, she was the only nice person that worked there.  We went here twice in our short 2 day visit to Memphis (if it ain't broke, don't fix it) and both times we had nasty servers.  We don't get it....we are polite at the table....thank you, no thanks....etc.  But both times our servers were not friendly and disappeared to the degree that I went up to the counter to ask for what more we needed (water, more sauce).

With that being said - the food was SOOOOOOO great that we would still go back again.  To start with, we ordered the onion rings.  These were AMAZING!!  Crunchy and with sweet, soft onion inside. Wow!! My husband and I ordered the bbq sampler.  That was the way to go.... a bit of everything - shredded pork, beef, beef and pork ribs and a hot link.  SO much yummy food.  And it came with bbq spaghetti, beans and slaw.  Both of our kids ordered shredded pork sandwiches with fries.

 Look at these wondrous onion rings.  Heaven in a bowl......

 All the sides - slaw, beans and bbq spaghetti.  Strange, I know, but everyone really liked it.  It was just broken spaghetti noodle tossed in bbq sauce.

 Here's the huge sample - farthest to closest.....shredded pork, pork ribs, beef ribs, shredded beef (or brisket) with a hot link on top.  It all just melted in my mouth.  I liked that the ribs still had some pull in them.  I'm not a fan of "fall off the bone" ribs.

Here's what our table looked like when we were done....funny you see on the empty plates on the table with the word STOP in the center of it all!! Yeah right......