Gibson's B-q - Huntsville

Fast and polite server that know their jobs. eating is well old-fashioned hearty dishes perfectly cooked. fair price for fair portions.

We grabbed carryout from Gibson 's on a Sunday a few weeks ago. I was somewhat pleasantly surprised after hearing pretty mixed reviews over the years I 've lived in Huntsville. It 's not my favorite BBQ in the area by any means, but it was better than I 'd expected it would be. They have a very large parking lot that I 'd never noticed as being particularly full...until I came around 11 on Sunday. Must attract the church crowd. I understand they are popular for breakfast, too, but I 'm rarely in this area that early. I phoned in my order. I wasn 't given a time frame on when it 'd be ready, but I just drove over and it was waiting for me about 15 minutes after I called, so that works. They have a designated anteroom for carryout/pickup orders, which I thought was kind of nice. The staff was friendly and welcoming. I ordered the half chicken plate, a loaded pork potato, one sweet tea, and a slice of chocolate pie. My total was $31 before tip. Unfortunately, despite their pleasant demeanor, service stumbled a bit on getting my order right. I realized before I drove away that I had been given banana cream pie (I think) rather than chocolate. I went inside and they fixed it quickly, but unfortunately I didn 't notice until I got home that we were given only a quarter of a chicken rather than a half chicken. It was still enough food for boyfriend, at least, but it 's frustrating to pay for more than what you get. I sampled both of boyfriend 's sides and found them lackluster. The fries were under salted and not very crispy, kinda freezer fry vibe, while the macaroni and cheese has that sort of fake cheese flavor you get from something like Kraft. The sweet tea was good, as were the crispy, crunchy hush puppies that came with boyfriend 's chicken plate. Again, I was pleasantly surprised by the meats. I didn 't try the smoked chicken, but boyfriend described it as pretty good and polished it all off. The pork on my potato was quite dry, but had a decent smoke flavor. That 's the beauty of a loaded potato you can counteract dry meat with all the butter and sour cream, lol. Their potato was cooked nicely and included bacon bits, which was a nice bonus. Double pork! The portion size was absolutely massive and there was a ton of meat on the potato. Not mind blowing BBQ, but a decent meal to be sure. Lastly, the chocolate pie was just okay. A little too saccharine for my tastes; I like my chocolate pie on the darker side of chocolate. The meringue was suuuuuper sweet, too, so I scraped most of it off. All in all, while this won 't be a frequent BBQ pit stop for me, it was better than expected and I enjoyed my meal well enough.

It 's ok just breakfast nothing special. Would 've thought you would serve bbq and eggs but no just normal and have bran muffins on the menu which apparently they don 't have. Employees very rough just shy of saying rude, not rude per se very short order style restaurant treatment. Biscuits a little tough.

Take-out meals recently have included buns that are out of date and moldy tasting. Would suggest customers check on that before taking buns out of...

It is great! Tender and cooked to perfection! Made my mouth water.