Joe's Real BBQ

We’ll be closing at 7pm Super Bowl Sunday 2/5

Watching some football this weekend thinking ahead to the Super Bowl.  If wings are on your list of must-haves for the game, we want you to know we’ll have plenty.  Best bet is to order in advance, so we can have however many dozen you want ready in hot or mild.  We normally just make hot wings for the weekend, but we will be offering both the hot and original wings Feb 5.  Drop us an e-mail (wings@joesrealbbq.com) or give us a call 480.503.3805.  $9.99 for a dozen, $16.99 for 2 dozen.

We’ll be open 11:00 am – 9:00 pm as usual, with the exception of Christmas Eve Day 12/24, when we close at 3pm and we’ll be closed Christmas Day

It’s that time of year. We found those amazing oversized jumbo sweet potatoes again, and Big D whipped up his famous cinnamon butter to complement. Give one a try, or split one at your table. Amazingly flavorful, in part because we smoke them, in part because (let’s face it) the sweet potato is a yummy thing in and of itself, and in part because the cold flavor-infused butter is a nice foil to the hot goodness. Enjoy!

In celebration of Gilbert’s centennial, Union Pacific’s historic steam locomotive is coming to Gilbert.  Saturday, November 12 the train is scheduled to arrive and stop at 12:45 downtown.  The celebration will start at 11:30 am and run until 2pm.  Whether you are a train enthusiast, have kids, or just want to be part of something cool, we hope you’ll come on down.

I hope those of you who love scooters will take advantage of what fatscooters has going on… #mce_temp_url#

Friday Oct 21 the ride will come by way of our place, with parking and dining spots devoted to the group.  Saturday has an entire lineup of awesome things including the Scooter Fiesta at Joe’s Farm Grill.

Many people of my generation remember where they were when some seminal history-making things took place … 11/22/63, 3/30/81 and others.   For most people I know 9/11/01 is the day they won’t soon forget.  I spent 17 years with American Airlines and in fact was still employed by AA on that fateful day.  My Mom called and said I had to turn on the TV.  I was immediately ill.  I didn’t know at that moment that I knew a passenger and some of the flight attendants involved, but I knew that an industry I had been a part of since 1984 was being used as an instrument of chaos and destruction and it was heart breaking.  While my mind is too small to comprehend something so awful, I take respite in the fact God is sovereign.  This horrific act didn’t happen while He blinked, nor was it slipped past His omnipotent hand while He was on a break.   Romans 8:28

Wow.  We’ve been honored to be on some national TV shows and magazines and such.  But now Localicious comes along and puts us among the nation’s most popular BBQ spots!  See Localicious Blog Here While we think we have an awesome staff and crank out some pretty tasty Q, we know these things really boil down to how customers feel about their experience here.  We’re so thankful that for 14 years those customers have continued to make things like this happen.  Thanks!

Ipad, Ipod, I-whatever. We love them all. Macs and all things Apple hold a special place in our hearts. We sure wish more people who make stuff for restaurants felt the same way. Let me rephrase that. We wish more people who make stuff for larger restaurants with good sized menus with more than one location that take credit cards and gift cards felt the same way. Our POS (Point of Sale) system is pretty much state of the art. By that, I mean antiquated, running on Windows XP (or maybe 3.1 I can’t tell), but about the best available for a large operation. We’d love to think we could throw in a POS that runs on Mac OS, but we just don’t see any good ones out there. Apple’s reluctance to offer a touch screen Imac or anything else larger than the tablet means those of us in retail can forget throwing our traditional POS systems away and replacing with Mac-based ones. Along comes the Ipad and kinda starts to change that landscape, but so many things still need to be overcome to make something with that small a form plausible. And even some of the better apps available out there haven’t come to grips with things like how to accept gift cards. Own a couple of restaurants and want to accept co-branded cards at both places? Forget about it. We applaud folks making it work for them — The Coffee Shop at Agritopia has come up with a very elegant Ipad solution that works for them (good job Chris!). Others are giving it a whirl. We’re going to wait and see for a while but in the meantime if you see someone out there in retail making great use of Ipads or better yet an Imac or something running MacOS we’d love to hear about it. We’d throw an Imac out there tomorrow, but we don’t think many of you want to stand in line while we use a mouse to find each item you ordered! There’s a reason Ipads are making such a splash — touch screen’s fast and simple. We just wish it could be done on a “larger” scale!

We get quite a few questions every day about what types of catering we offer, and whether we do weddings and “higher end” events. Of course. We do just about everything — church gatherings, weddings, funerals, office parties, block parties, and everything in between. With prices as low as $7.99 per person we think we’ll be able to hit your price point. If you don’t see an offering that makes sense for your group, just let us know. We’ll make sure you get whatever you need — china, chafing dishes, or just about anything else. Every one of our managers is ready to help make sure you get whatever you need. We’d suggest starting with an online catering quote request right here on our site. We’ll take it from there!