Hole in the Wall BBQ

Taking a step away from my shutterbugging for a moment, I'm going to remark on my lunch experience today.

I almost didn't go to lunch with Ben, Jerry and some of their Amazon co-workers today because Jerry mentioned that this would have to be a real 'quick' lunch. So I had images of dashing down to Pine St. to catch the bus to the International District only to be spending fifteen or twenty minutes with them. And then having to walk the 1.5ish miles home (because I do that to myself... I have to justify calories. I realize this is alien thinking to most of you. Take the bus, dumbass, you say).

Yeah, turns out Amazon's idea of a 'quickie' is my idea of long and leisurely. At Swedish/Chief Sealth, the kids and our staff get about forty five minutes on a good day, and its not duty-free. My idea of a 'quickie' is like fifteen minutes to stuff my face before I have to go back downstairs.

I am clearly working with the wrong organization here.

So with that said, we went to a new place (for me) today. Chuck's Hole in the Wall BBQ. So... before today, I have not found any real good BBQ in town that I was willing to jump on. I haven't looked that hard because I assumed there wouldn't be much but... eh. Yeah. Anyway. So while I have nothing official to base this on, I'm going to go ahead and call it some damned good BBQ. Maybe the best in Seattle, but that judgment is from friends only.

I got the pulled pork sandwich, "wet" (extra sauce) and "hot" (a sprinkle of hot stuff) and it was sooooo worth it. I find it very cool that the sauce has coffee integrated into its recipe (what else can you expect from Seattle, right?). I'm not sure if its psychosomatic and because I know it has coffee in it, I could taste it, but there is a special 'something' in there that I attribute to the flavor of coffee. On a continuum between vinegary and sweet, it notches towards the sweet, but not the sickly, sticky sweet of some midwestern stuff (which I tend to loathe). Its more reminiscent of a sweeter Texas-style and its really messy.

My friend Paul got a 'Pig with Lipstick' which is their version of very traditional 'southern-style' pulled-pork BBQ- pickles and cole slaw on top. I am a big fan of this. So I'll be trying that next time.