Coach's Bar-B-Que

Barbeque is one food category that I am fairly picky on and it is hard to get a high rating from me since I am well traveled in Texas and have sampled some of the finest that Texas BBQ has to offer. Today, I ate at Coach's Bar-B-Que in McGregor, TX, right off of US 84. Coach's has been there for a while and is a local favorite. This was not my first visit, but it is a place I often stop when I an in the area. This is your typical Texas BBQ joint with a few twists. They apparently have a broad selection of other dishes. I have heard they make a mean pizza and that the catfish is worth the try. The service is warm and friendly, but the real treat of Coach's is the memorabilia scattered throughout the restaurant. From Texas license plates of every age to a collection of football helmets, it make the place feel lived in with history to back it up. Today, I selected a three meat plate with Brisket, Sausage and Ribs, along with their Campfire Beans and some Fried Okra. Again, it is hard to impress me with barbeque, but I will compliment the Brisket for being moist, tender with a good smoke ring. They use a traditional Texas style seasoning, simple salt and pepper, and the smoke was well infused through out the meat. Their Regular Sausage was well flavored, if a bit dry, with a nice black pepper finish, giving it a good pep at the end. It was the Ribs that I was a bit disappointed in. While well flavored and ample in size, they were a little tougher than I remember them being in the past. The Fried Okra was a bit of a let down too. While crunch and fresh when it came out, there was just not much flavor to the side dish. The real star of the plate by far was the Campfire Beans, a traditional style of barbeque baked beans, enhanced my trimmings of chopped brisket in the mix. Those could have been a meal unto themselves. If you are in the area of McGregor, check out Coach's. It is not a bad experience by far, but it is not one of the Texas legends either.

I am in complete and utter shock. I decided to order something other than my standard by the pound barbecue. I tried their new brisket pizza and was completely overwhelmed with a taste sensation so satisfying that I started to cry. I have already had to go to multiple therapy sessions over this… all good by the way. The therapy sessions mostly had to do with knowing the fact that I could’ve been eating this pizza for several weeks prior as it has been on the menu for quite some time. May the gods of Pizza forgive me for my negligence. shame on me for not knowing sooner about this Gem of a pizza pie at an already phenomenal BBQ joint. - Frank O’Brien Stevens (Supreme Culinary Overlord of McGregor)

Went inside to pick up ribs for dinner. The guy ringing me up was new so called Johnny over to help. I asked if bbq sauce was included and he said yes. Got home, had a drink then opened the bag, onons, pickles, bread were included but no BBQ sauce. We'd been drinking so couldn't drive back to store so called and Johnny brought us the sauce. I call that excellent customer service. Ribs were great and a great price, good portions! I will go back.

I remember eating here a few times over 10 years ago and the food and service was really good so I decided to visit again im not sure if ownership has changed or what happened but the food was not at all what i remembered I purchased 2 moist brisket sandwiches that were extremely dry and a pound of ribs that were even dryer and seemed to have spicy seasoning sprinkled on them not edible at all I drove 25 minutes to buy barbecue from here when I only live 5 minutes away from Rudy's Barbecue same price better quality sorry for the negative review but I was not satisfied at all neither was the person with me who I bragged to about this place before we visited.

We live in N.FTW but stop here for lunch when we are in town. We always get a chopped and sliced brisket sandwich which we think are pretty good. We also have tried the jalapeño sausage and that was delicious. The fries are ok but the onion rings are way better. The place is always clean and their staff is very friendly.