Alston Bridges Barbecue

One of my favorite places to eat in my home town. The restaurant has been packed every time I’ve been (which is quite a lot) and its for a reason!
The BBQ is really tasty with a great sauce that has a little kick! Service is quick, with the waitresses keeping up with the constant ebb and flow of customers.
If you’re in town, you need to visit Alston bridges! Or red bridges! Or the flying pig, which is my personal favorite!
Shelby: home of baseball and BBQ!

Very friendly service and great food. Their sauce is true Carolina vinegar based, and you can get your bbq sliced, chopped, or course chopped.
We will definitely go back!

Love bridges this is a long standing family business and for a reason my 45 year old husband ate there when he was a little boy and we now ear here with our little girl. Plenty of space and seating ample space in between guest Wichita is important to me I do not like eating with a bunch of people crowded around me waitstaff is excellent and friendly become like family after you go a few times. BBQ is the best around so is hush puppies and tea. Have dine in or walk out service all around 5 stars best bbq in the county

This is a real simple BBQ restaurant. They do a great job getting the food out quickly.

This is my favorite BBQ of all time, the last time I went I ended up ordering another sandwich after I finished my first one because it was THAT good! The buns are soft and light so it doesn’t get in the way of the delicious pork flavor and the slaw adds just the right amount of tangy goodness.

Pretty good. I like the slaw on the chopped pork sandwich with the sauce. Hush puppies are average. French fries are nothing special. Good atmosphere. Would eat here again for sure.

The waitress was super sweet and very efficient. The slaw was different, not bad just different. Red sauce chopped fine. Never had slaw like it before.
Hush puppies were terrific. Now for the BBQ — I got the chopped pork plate. I prefer my chopped more cube shaped and not so finely minced. The texture was too mushy because of the way it is chopped. It is definitely not cut by hand but seems to be minced by machine. I’m not sure I would go back but if you are in the area it will suffice. We tried two other places first but one was closed for 4^th of July weekend and the other was remodeling.

Fast and friendly service. Food was pretty good. The red slaw was different.
I am absolutely spoiled with home cooked BBQ, so it is hard to rate a BBQ place :)

It is ineviable, that when you have two outstanding barbecue restaurants in the same, relatively small town, which is better will be the subject of convesation and of reviews. My personal tastes gives Bridges Barbecue Lodge the edge, but make no mistake about it, this place serves excellent Lexington style barbecue, and great BBQ Chicken, as well. So good, in fact, that there are probably less than a double hand full that are better.
Like its rival, this place has been around since the 1940’s, and has a connection with Stamey. He and Alston Price married sisters. and Bridges learned his craft from Stamey, and the result is some pretty darn good barbecue, eventhough they apparently no longer cook over wood.
We tried the ½ Barbecue Chicken ($ 8.30) with slaw and hushpuppies. The chicken is excellent, smokey and with great flavor. You have a choice of sauces — sweet or their regular — go with the regular, for sure. This is a nice sauce, loaded with flavor, and some heat. This chicken place is $ 1.70 cheaper than the other Bridges, but the chicken is noticeable smaller, and their is no additional side.
The barbecue slaw here is good, not great. The hushpuppies here are simply excellent — small tubes, smooth outer crust, moist, full of great flavor. I tried the Hot Dog ($ 2.10) and it was decent, but nothing special — wouldn’t order again.
The chopped Barbecue Sandwich ($ 3.70) was very good, not as smokey as the pork across town, and the texture is more minced than chopped — I suspect they use an electric chopper. Still, this is excellent Lexington style barbecue.
This is a small, rather cramped place regardless of whether you sit at the counter, or in the main seating area. The waitresses are constantly dodging each other and the customers as well — but they handle it well, always friendly and efficient. Good folks, good food, we’ll be back.