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Mobile Restaurant -- Fletchers BBQ Returns

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BamaLuver

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Saw on WKRG that "Fletchers House of BBQ" has opened a restaurant at Cottage Hill and I-65 (Malfunction Junction for those who know the area)! :) Will be curious to try it and see if they still have good BBQ. Years ago they had a great sauce for their ribs.
 
BamaLuver said:
Saw on WKRG that "Fletchers House of BBQ" has opened a restaurant at Cottage Hill and I-65 (Malfunction Junction for those who know the area)! :) Will be curious to try it and see if they still have good BBQ. Years ago they had a great sauce for their ribs.
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Is it a ketchup base sauce, Luver? That's the only thing i'm not too fond of bbq joints while living down here. My folks live up in Columbus GA, Phenix City AL area, and most of their bbq sauces are mustard base...which to me, is far better. Just haven't found a bbq joint around town here that has one.

If you check it out, let me know how it is. Thank you sir.
 
That's great news if it's like the old Fletcher's. They had the best BBQ and sauce I've ever had and there's not even a close second. It was originally started by Fletcher Harvey and then passed on to his son, Gerald Harvey, who kept everything the same, but I guess Gerald died (I was in Orlando) and passed it down to his kids. They evidently thought they had a better idea and tried to convert it to a "family restaurant" complete with a salad bar. Bad idea, even worse, they tinkered with that bestest ever sauce, which should have been a criminal offense. :mad2:

They used to just bring you a plate of ribs, no sides or silverware and a basket of hard rolls. The ribs were generously slathered with sauce and after you finished the ribs, you sopped up the sauce with the hard rolls. My mouth waters every time I think of those days. I pray they still have the recipe for that sauce. It makes Dreamlands taste like swill in comparison. (And I like Dreamland's) :)
 
The Duke said:
Is it a ketchup base sauce, Luver? That's the only thing i'm not too fond of bbq joints while living down here. My folks live up in Columbus GA, Phenix City AL area, and most of their bbq sauces are mustard base...which to me, is far better. Just haven't found a bbq joint around town here that has one.

If you check it out, let me know how it is. Thank you sir.
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It's not a tomatoey type sauce, it was a dark brown, thin sauce in the old days. I've never seen anyone who didn't think it was the best they ever had. Whenever we had relatives visit from out of town, a trip to Fletcher's was ALWAYS one of their top priorities while in town. It was legendary, like Palmer's Seafood Restaurant.
 
I think its in the building that used to house Revere's on Cottage Hill Rd. This is a small write-up I found on the net:

BBQ dreams

Fletcher’s, a longtime Mobile BBQ institution is making another go of it in West Mobile. They will open April 15 with the recipes and same style of BBQ they have prepared since 1932 with additions such as seafood and country favorites. The brothers of Fletcher Harvey, the original owner, are entering into this venture.
 
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Okay, I made a little field trip and checked it out. It's not quite as good as it was under Fletcher and Gerald, but it's pretty close and it's damn good. It's better than anyplace else in Mobile or anywhere else for that matter. My Grandson agreed, he said it was the best he'd ever had. And for the clincher, Butch, my very picky Boston Terrier loved it. :biggrin:

I heartily recommend it.
 
Well, I'm glad you tested it out for us T-Mac, and I value your opinion! My husband is a BBQ fanatic -- I'll have to send him that way over the weekend. I heard the rolls they give you are from Pollman's. Not much I don't like from that bakery! :)

BTW Tommy -- what did you order?
 
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BamaLuver said:
Well, I'm glad you tested it out for us T-Mac, and I value your opinion! My husband is a BBQ fanatic -- I'll have to send him that way over the weekend. I heard the rolls they give you are from Pollman's. Not much I don't like from that bakery! :)

BTW Tommy -- what did you order?
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I got take-out since they're not wheelchair friendly.
My grandson and I split a slab of ribs. They had plenty of sauce and two rolls. The rolls are the best, I didn't know where they came from, but they're exactly the same as from the old days.
 
Saw this thread about Fletcher's, so had to share what I nremeber about it. Grew up in Montgomery, visited my Grandmother in Mobile every summer. She never took me to Fletcher's, but Grandfather took entire family there in 1956, and so it started. I remember we sat at a table on the raised floor corner (a bandstand?), and we always had BBQ in buns. We choose between inside and outside meat, and often ordered extra bowls of sauce (finger bowl size 5 cents, larger bowl 10 cents). That was the best BBQ I have yet had, and I've had a lot. Last time I was there was the year the "Casino" on dauphin Island washed away (1960?). Anyone who speaks ill of their sauce has never noticed the hundreds of posts (elsewhere) through the years, between people trying to beg, borrow or steal its recipe -- and I mean people from ALLOVER the newnited states!
 
Found this old recipe @ an Old Mobilian site. Must be enough for an army! :)

Ossie’s BBQ Sauce

4 bell peppers
6 onions
1 gallon ketchup
1 small can thyme
2 small cans celery seed
6 ounces Worchester sauce
6 ounces hot sauce
2 stalks celery - diced
2 or 3 gloves garlic
2 ½ gallons water
1 pint vinegar
1 lb. margarine

Cook celery, onions, peppers for 15 minutes. Bring to a full boil – add remaining ingredients.
 
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