Award from Tennesseeebloggers.com!
A big thanks to tennesseebloggers.com for giving martinsbbq.blogspot.com a "best blog in Tennessee" award. I am very, very flattered and could not have done it alone......thanks to all of you who have posted comments. Please go to the link posted below and read the commentary; very flattering because they usually do not give an award to any blogs that are as young as this one. Thanks tennesseebloggers.com!!!I should be posting an additional blog later tonight or tomorrow in regards to the joint. I am about to head down to the Music City Brewfest in downtown Nashville for all you can drink beer from 37 different breweries. After that, I am grilling baja fish tacos tonight on the deck for my wife and friends. Talk to y'all directly!http://tennesseebloggers.com/archives/2006/07/martins_bbq.php
What is this Blog???
You ever been sitting around cooking for your family and friends and been told the following: "Hoss, this is the best I've ever had in my dadgum life.....you have got to open up a place of your own". The thought crosses your mind to do just that, but for whatever reason you dont. Well I'm "that" guy that actually went through with it and did it. I had absolutely ZERO restaurant experience! I decided to start this blog about my own experience hoping that it may be of some use and help to others who might be interested in opening their own place.
I learned this craft almost 20 years ago cooking whole hogs on brick & cinder block pits at a couple of little BBQ Joints in Henderson, TN. I learned from old, lifelong career Pit-Masters, working with them as an apprentice during school off and on for four years. Over the course of that time I learned the old, time-honored craft of REAL pit barbecue. At Martin's Bar-B-Que Joint I am trying as hard as I can everyday to bring that time-honored authenticity to my customers.
As you read you'll see I've made some stupid decisions, and I've made some good decisions. If you are thinking of opening a restaurant, especially a BBQ Joint, read this blog! Maybe some of this info can be of use to you. At the very least you will be entertained because I pull no punches.
Now listen, this is my blog to not only help with information but my blog to freely rant about my day to day experiences. There is no real "bad language" on this blog but there might be some things said that are very "tongue in cheek". If you are easily offended and/or cant see the satire in my posts then please just leave the blog. It will save both of us the annoyance of each other. For those of you who do like satire and are looking for good information about this experience, then by all means enjoy!
A big thanks to tennesseebloggers.com for giving martinsbbq.blogspot.com a "best blog in Tennessee" award. I am very, very flattered and could not have done it alone......thanks to all of you who have posted comments. Please go to the link posted below and read the commentary; very flattering because they usually do not give an award to any blogs that are as young as this one. Thanks tennesseebloggers.com!!!
4 comments:
I'm extremely excited for you P! You've come a long way from roasting next to Gano Hall on tin sheets out in the parking lot. I have NO DOUBT you will accomplish your dreams and goals and will be able next year to fly from Anchorage, Alaska to come down and make sure you've done it right! Love you brother!! - Russ
Travel I shall to your new restaurant. Your porcine I hope to enjoy. Will you be serving gooey duck as well. Gooey duck was a gift from my planet to yours 700000 years ago.- Yoda
Saw link from eGullet. Pullin for ya out here in Virginia.
By way of beer, if you could add Corona (maybe instead of Pacifico), I think that would be a plus.
BTW, check out thesmokering.com, more of us BBQ nuts over there.
thanks for the posts guys.....i wanted corona but it is so dang expensive compared to pacifico, and the mexican guys that work for me prefer pacifico so thats how i came up with that choice. you dont get hit with the import mark-up with pacifico (out of brownsville, tx i think???) anyway....keep pullin for me up there in va. and when you get a chance swing down and meet and eat! thanks again for the post!
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