Memphis Blues

Ive always wanted to try this place and decided to order this last week when I didn't feel like cooking. I ordered this via uber eats and they had this buy 1 get 1 special. I ordered the pulled pork chicken, the cornbread, the sausages and a bottle of the BBQ sauce.

The pulled pork chicken was buy 1 get 1 and it came with your choice of fries or coleslaw and beans. I chose to get the coleslaw and beans. There was a lot of pulled pork and a good amount of BBQ sauce. I knew the BBQ sauce wouldn't be enough and rather getting a side of BBQ sauce, I ended up getting a bottle. The bottle BBQ sauce didn't taste the same tho as the BBQ sauce in the pulled pork and the one that came with the sausages, but still good. The bread was good, it was big and chewy. The coleslaw isn't your typical tart creamy coleslaw so don't expect that. The beans to me, was quite good and u can taste the smokiness.

The sausages were also buy 1 get 1 and these were delicious. It came with a side of BBQ sauce and I would only dip a little as I find dipping alot takes away from the smokey sausages. But yum!

Cornbread, I was pretty disappointed with this one. I thought I was going to get something sweet, but this was not sweet at all, but very moist! It could be that they don't make it sweet.

Overall, I would definitely order from here again, but maybe no cornbread as I prefer it a bit sweet.

Best barbecue north of the Mason Dickson line. (If you have to ask what the Mason Dickson line is, you don't know barbecue)

Memphis Blues is a staple in Vancouver for Southern BBQ. It's a casual spot that serves slow smoked meats, southern seafood, and drinks.

I most recently visited with 4 guys and we shared the Elvis platter. It comes with "all the meats" which are beef brisket, pulled pork, ribs, rib ends, BBQ chicken, and sausage. It also has the sides: fries, cornbread, potato salad, BBQ pit beans, and coleslaw. The only thing it's missing is seafood - the next bigger Priscilla platter adds calamari, shrimp, and catfish.

My favourite here is the beef brisket. It's tender with a bit of crunch on the outside. It pairs especially well with their house blend BBQ sauce, in a sandwich or on its own.

They have $5 pints of Russell pilsner, all day every day. That's a 20oz full pint. Or pitchers are $15. Amazing!

Still the best southern barbecue north of the Mason-Dickson line. George has kept the quality of his food up there with the best in the south. Great ribs with a tenderness inside and the Smokey flavor on the edges.

Grewt service and food were good. Would recommend the lemonade very refressing. Food came out fast and hot. Everything was good.

When you use the words Memphis bbq. Which means Memphis Tennessee down south smoked meat. Make sure it's really good smoked bbq with hickory, mesquite or apple wood over a pit, smoker or grill for flavor and meat seasoned well.
The baked beans had no flavor, collard greens no flavor. Just highly disappointed. But i will say, the brisket was tender. Just didn't taste smoked.

I like BBQ. Memphis Blue is ok. I have had better BBQ. I came with B and we ordered 1/2 lb brisket and the sandwich of the day to share. The sandwich (pull pork with mustard on top) was tasty. It came with seasoned fries.

The brisket was tender but it was slightly dry. Service was great. Overall, it was not bad

I would say Memphis is an average BBQ place. There are better ones out there Smoke and Bones and Devil's Elbow etc.

My expectations for Memphis Blues is not high. If it wasn't my buddy's treat I would have insisted else where.

Being a nice pleasant day I decided to leave my high maintenance black German Bat Mobile (Audi from Boundary Audi) at home and take the public transit.

Which turns out to be a good decision. Along the way from the Commercial Station to Memphis, a plethora of home grown eateries and cafes sprung across my path. Noted for future visit.

Arriving at Memphis, it reminds me a bit like a Subway food chain with a cartoony map of Memphis and decorated with some tacky memorabilia of the southern town. We know this did not come from Memphis or are we in Memphis. This franchise is a brainchild of locals. Not very authentic feeling. But let's just pretend for a moment we are in Memphis.

Since it was on my friend's tab, I did not want to order the 2 meat combo for 25$, I would rather just have the 1 meat meal for 20$ or less, thought the waitress may be accommodating to allow me to have two meats of 5 oz each. Noooope. She insisted I must have the 2 meat combo which had 12 oz of meat where the 1 meat had 10 oz. I don't know about how good your math is. 20$/10oz=2$/oz. but 25$/12oz=2.08$/oz. What she suggested was not a deal. Nor I necessarily wanted to have more food. I simply wanted to see how good their bbq's are. Even a bite would have been suffice.

That was that, the Nazi waitress was not flexible nor an astute mathematician. Moot point. I ended up ordering the brisket meal and my friend ordered rib meal.

Let's just say when the food came I was not exactly surprised. Both the brisket and ribs were on the plenty of dry side. Though the food came out rather too quick as if all they had to do was to carve the meat. Despite asking for the fattiest piece possible, 7/8 of brisket was dry and gamey. Gave the old gums a workout. Nothing served was hot, as if they were all sitting under some sort of heat lamp.

On the slight plus side, they give you a choice of fries, or potatoe salad. Coleslaw was meh. The chilies were lukewarm. The bbq dipping sauce tasted like cherry cough syrup. The brisket was so dry, had no choice but to dip in the cough syrup to aid swallowing. Yeah no....not good.

Cannot really recommend this place at this price point. Try the new eateries on the Drive instead. Better yet open a BBQ joint in town, there is virtually no competition.

Reenact the last couple years of Elvis Presley's life by stuffing your face full of BBQ at Memphis Blues until you fall into a meat coma.

A cool establishment in the heart of Commercial Drive's dining district, Memphis Blues has no real, nearby, direct competition. They serve Tennessee-style BBQ in a venue filled with Memphis-themed decorations.

Prices are a bit high, but par for the course. Side dishes like coleslaw, potato salad, fries and beans do a good job filling you up if the meat doesn't. I'd suggest getting the Memphis platter as it gives you a sampling of all the different meats available. For larger parties, step up to the Elvis platter or even bigger Priscilla platter.

Worth noting is their BBQ sauce which has hints of plum/cherries. Their potato salad and collard greens are also very good. Their fries were amazingly crispy and well seasoned. Brisket, ribs and pulled pork were all tasty and give you a variety of textures to enjoy.

Service was good, and the ambiance was cheerful. Some desserts are available and a full bar is there for your alcohol needs.

First time trying Memphis Blues! We got the smoked sausage as an appetizer, the beef brisket meal and the combo meal with 1/2 slab of ribs and pulled pork. Each meal comes with cornbread, coleslaw, BBQ pit beans and your choice of potato salad or fries. The beef brisket had a good mix of fatty and lean parts but I found some of the leans parts to be too dry. I also found the pulled pork to be on the dry side and it definitely needed the help of the BBQ sauce. The ribs were okay not the most moist or tender ones I've ever had. The crispy fries with some sort of Cajun seasoning? were addictive and the portion was generous. The BBQ sauce just tasted a bit too smokey for me and it made the BBQ pit beans taste really weird. The other sides were fine for me. Sausage was pretty standard too. It was alright but I think I've had better BBQ.