Bludso's Bar & Cue - Los Angeles, CA

Bludso's Bar & Cue
609 N La Brea Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90036

http://www.barandque.com/

Bludso's has come to the big city of Los Angeles.  This facility opened up in 2014 but they got their start in Compton.  They smoke their meat using only full hardwood or charcoal. No chips are used and they smoke their meat for 14 hr.  It definitely makes a difference in the taste. 

You are ordering my the pound here so that level of authenticity is good.

We tried the ribs, sausage, pulled pork and brisket.  I have to say that this is some of the best meat that I've found in the LA area.  The ribs were very Texas authentic, the brisket was good, moist and had the right amount of smoke.  The pulled pork could have had a little more flavor but the sausage was straight up.

My order will be...

Ribs
Brisket
Sausage
Pulled Pork

 For sides there was cole slaw, baked beams, potato salad and greens. There were also 2 different sauces.  The greens were not overdone, the beans had good flavor, the potato salad leaned toward it's German heritage and the cole slaw was more vinigar based than mayo based.

However the hit of the night was the pickles.  These were home made bread and butter pickles that were fantastic.

They have a strong beer list and an LA worthy cocktail menu.

Overall I would return here in a heartbeat.