Buster's Texas-Style Barbecue

01/14/07

Buster's Tigard location is poor at best, Milwaukie is Okay, Tigard-Dry meat, bad service/attitude Milwaukie OK

by ormondrunnels at Citysearch

Buster's is (sort of) Texas style barbeque and in Texas it would rate at the lower end of mediocre but there the competition is fierce and here in Portland not so fierce. Campbells's, My Brothers's, and others are every bit as good or better across the board. The Milwaukie location seems to be the best followed by Gresham. I have eaten at them all and the Tigard location has the worst service and food of any Buster's. The brisket was dry, so was the ham, the sausage better but over cooked, the pecan pie soggy, there was that overcooked barbeque sauce odor/flavor to the meat, the service was unfriendly and not very good. I love barbeque or I'd rate the Tigard location as 2-3 out of 10 and the Milwaukie location as 5-6. If you are a Texas style barbeque fan Milwaukie Buster's is a 7 maybe an 8 on a good day and Tigard maybe 3-4 at best. The links are pretty good most of the time, the sauce is Texas style and okay but not really great like some Memphis barbeque.

• Pros: Milwaukie only- chopped beef sandwich (lunch only), links, pecan pie.
• Cons: Tigard-Dry meat, overcooked almost burned, bad attitude, poor service.

11/14/06

Good

by nicky7899 at Citysearch

Sides are good too

• Pros: Good chicken
• Cons: sauce

07/08/06

Okay food, but what is up with their "cafeteria"

by jasejazz at Citysearch

The food was okay, but I didn't like the fact that I had to get in line like I used to in high school. The barbeque was somewhat dry.

07/29/02

Tigard, home of REAL Texas BBQ...HA!

by shaft28 at Citysearch

Once again, just mediocre. I suppose when exposed to the rest of BBQ in Portland it would be considered good, but travel a little and then become dissatisfied.

I stick to my origional review:

When I first moved to the area and told people I lived in Tigard, many said "Oooh Buster's". Tried it a couple times and have to say I'm not all that impressed. Amid the fast food haven Tigard is, I suppose it is better. But overall the food is average, less than average at off-peak hours.